Week 9 - Illicit Crime

Illicit crime is a big skeleton that is in every countries closet. No one wants to go and buy a 20,000 dollar purse when they can buy the same thing or a knock off for 40 dollars on the streets of Hong Kong. But in the end it is something that needs to be brought to the light. We do not need to be so naïve in this world to believe that a purse is just a knock off and it will not affect anything else or anyone else for that matter. Well, wake up world! Every time you have some kind of knock off sold on the streets you promote drugs, violence, illegal weapons, war, and even illegal human trading, aka slavery.

It does not seem like those things could even relate what so ever to the other. But low and behold, they do. When someone ships a load of illegal fabrics to make purses, what makes them not want to make even more money by sticking in a kilo of heroin in with it? A good way of looking at this type of trade is like looking at the effects of drugs themselves. If you have marijuana once a month, what would stop you from trying cocaine or any other type of drug? You are already doing something illegal, why not try something different? Marijuana has been labeled a gateway drug. Well, selling illegal items could be the gateway drugs to selling illegal weapons or helping people bring in humans that they are putting through slavery now or prostitution. They could even be selling humans for body parts!

Either way, it’s absolutely disgusting and ILLEGAL! I admit, I too have bought things that were knock offs. I never knew how intertwined those horrible things are with that purse I wanted to get. Lord knows it won’t happen again.