Bootleg Merch Linked To Terrorists in New NYC Campaign…

NYC is launching a new aggressive campaign linking bootleg merchandise to terrorist organizations. The city is probably the number#1 destination in the world for fake Louie Vitton, Gucci and Rolexes etc., thus this campaign obviously uses the undertone of terrorism to try to frighten people into not buying “counterfeit” items due to their supposed funding of rogue organizations. Yeah Right! More below:

The city will display 50 black, yellow and red posters in tourist spots like Times Square and Chinatown over the next two months with the message, “The Real Price of Counterfeit Goods.”

“When you buy counterfeit goods, you support child labor, drug trafficking, organized crime and even worse,” one version reads. Another says that buyers have cost the city $1 billion per year in lost tax revenue

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~ by streetknowledge on May 18, 2008.