Re: [CR](Chilling) evidence re: prison labor used for Italian bikes.

Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 14:41:39 -0700
From: "Don Williams" <donwilliamsjr@gmail.com>
To: "Dale Brown" <oroboyz@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [CR](Chilling) evidence re: prison labor used for Italian bikes.
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I'm sure the inmate's food was cut in half for that... [B*)>

Don Williams Woodinville Washington USA

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Dale Brown <oroboyz@aol.com> wrote:
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> For those who have not seen this sobering example:
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> http://www.classicrendezvous.com/Rarest/prison_bike.htm
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> Dale Brown
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Koskinen <prkbikes@bellsouth.net>
> To: CLassicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Sent: Sun, 4 May 2008 4:20 pm
> Subject: [CR]PRISON LABOUR
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> SNIP<?
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> Tom Dalton wrote:?
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> > First, you'll need to provide more than your say-so when you assert?
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> > that Chinese lightweights are being built by conscripts on forced?
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> > labor. I keep hearing this thrown around like truth, but I've never?
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> > heard of any reports from NGOs or the like shedding any light on this?
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> > practice. It just sounds like something grumpy old guys like us use?
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> > as a half-truth to discredit bikes we don't like, and in some cases?
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> > fear out of ignorance. Underpaid workers perhaps, but that rests on?
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> > all of our heads if we buy anything made in China, or virtually?
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> > anywhere else outside of the U.S., Canada, western Europe, Japan, and?
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> > a handful of other places.?
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> Rumor has it that certain Italian marques used prison labor during the?
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> bike-boom years (late 60s to late 70s).?
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> John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)?
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> Appleton WI USA?
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> WOULD THAT BE TORPADO"S??
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> PETER REID KOSKINEN?
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