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waider ([personal profile] waider) wrote2007-07-23 01:38 pm

tell me about your phone

Because only terrorists drug-dealers would use pre-paid mobile phones.

In other scaremongering news, I heard a lawyer for one or more fashion labels this morning saying that the money payed for knock-off watches, clothes, suitcases, etc. "could end up, I'm afraid to say, being used to fund terrorism". Gah. When I am king, that word and all its variants will be banned from use in news stories, press conferences, and anything even remotely related to public discourse until such time as I see fit. Besides, it's a bad movie.

[identity profile] wisn.livejournal.com 2007-07-24 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
Well hell, the money paid for trading in legitimate fashion products can and probably much more provably are being used to fund terrorism: real gold, real diamonds, exotic animal furs, and random plant essences come from backwater parts of the world where [antiamerican|jihadist|communist|etc] terrorists run their business.

The knockoffs largely come from China and Thailand, neither of which are hotbeds of that sort of thing these days.