http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/1200-life-clothing-company-pays-peanuts-families-factory/story?id=17814618#.ULQShIfAdBA
A company that makes clothes for Sean Combs' clothing brand ENYCE and
other U.S. labels reassured investors that a factory fire that killed 112
people over the weekend would not harm its balance sheet, and also pledged to
pay the families of the dead $1,200 per victim.
In an announcement Monday, Li & Fung Ltd., a middleman company that
supplies clothes from Bangladesh factories to U.S. brands, said "it wishes
to clarify" that the deadly Saturday night blaze at the high-rise Tazreen
Fashions factory outside Dhaka "will not have any material impact on the
financial performance" of the firm. …
Wal-Mart confirmed Monday that its clothes were being made at the Tazreen
factory. Even though Wal-Mart is famed for maintaining tight control over its
supply chain, the company said its clothes were being made at the plant without
its knowledge.
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I have heard the MLK quote in my mind having read it several times
perhaps in the blog of a preacher and or a true Prophet (one that few listen to
in his or her lifetime).
I backtracked on the MLK quote on the internet and found that one site quoted the full text from somebody named Parker in the 1850s in the
context that MLK’s abridged version was somehow perverted in that MLK did not
quote the full version or that MLK did not deserve credit for content and or
connotation no doubt because he was less than a full (white) man to say it in
any version.
One often wonders what went through the mind and soul of one of the truly great
minds of Human History more so than merely being a freak within A-merican
History when he shouted his version of truth in that public forum of human
history in my own lifetime.
The quote, something like “the arc of the Moral Universe is long but it
bends toward justice” is an interesting thing to say in today’s godless age.
Morality it would seem is anything one political party quotes is morality
from its parasite appendage of religions, old and dying religions, things that
represent the morality of times past and not the present, that now sit in and
make backroom deals for money and power in the virtual forum and or town square
of the 21st century of the common era since the height of political power under the Roman
emperor god Augustus.
And even if one political party in America is blatantly vulgarly religious and
openly worships the god/idol of money and power, the other party in its bland
agnosticism is little different in many ways.
Which puts me in light of the last elections in which no true economic
issues were discussed and in which the election of one over the other merely
delays the stripping of the final layers of human rights of you and me into mere
months I fear in any case instead of years and decades.
The need to find a public morality brought me back to the MLK quote and
the struggle of some or is it the many to live in some measure of human dignity
on this shrinking planet.
There is a story in the news about how some hundred odd human beings,
mostly female, who died in a factory fire in Bangladesh, which if you know any
history was once called East Pakistan and is in the eastern end of India. A nation born of rebellion against the mother land of West or present Pakistan.
One of course is reminded of the great Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in lower
Manhattan or the West Village where over a hundred people, 146 to be exact, mostly
women died because of greed, stupidity and arrogance back in 1911. The deaths
caused such outrage that fire safety laws had to be upgraded and the cause of
unionized labor and its humane demands got a great moral boost in the arm.
That building still stands BTW, just off Washington Square, and is now an
active working structure as part of NYU. Some of the ghosts of those dead
workers have not left that building or so some say.
In the case of third world factory in Bangladesh, various media stories
first told some truth and now are trimming the truth back into neat little rows
of pretty flowers out of the “truth”. In the American press that is. I continue to read more truth about this
incident in the British Press.
Truth is that it is a new concrete building two or three years old, the factory that is. Concrete,
fireproof and in no need of any marked or sufficiently cleared Emergency fire
exits because concrete = fireproof. The building will survive fire and or the inconvenience of people. Yeah right.
That blocked exits or no exit signs and many floors illegally added to the structure added to the chaos and death of so many. That thing about the exits
only existed for a short time in the American media before Wal-Mart which buys
the shirts made by third world slave labor in this particular factory puts out
it great answer to morality by saying that this particular factory where over a
hundred women died had two of three black marks on Wal-Mart's mighty standard
charts before it would refuse to buy from this factory at some time in the future.
How fucking high, mighty and “morally” modern Wal-Mart!
God/Dollar Bless You!
To quote or paraphrase quote myself “The Arc of the Superstitious
Universe Is Long and Bends Toward Human Destruction”.
My search for morality or something like it in the public forum comes
with the knowledge that public morality is now a commodity in the public world
as evidenced by all the yes man lackeys called Roman Catholic American Bishops
who have thrown their lot in with all the other for profit Fundies like Franklin Graham, Pat Robertson, Osteen, Hagee, Falwell, etc., etc., etc.
The superstition that is religion in most cases these days has attached
itself to the myth of Free Market Capitalism that now is one of the pillars of
American and or Western public faith or so the media brainwashes us to accept as modern dogma.
That the theory of capitalism is perfect and should never be diluted
with real time usage by people or with people or about people. Real people.
What killed 100 factory workers in Bangladesh? Superstition.
Superstition that all Profits are Clean and full of the unquestioned Grace
of Dollar.
Superstition that you can build unsafe factories and pay slave wages and
sell your products to a Company like Wal-Mart headquartered in a shithole god-forsaken
place like Arkansas that believes that guns, Jesus and exploitative profits
from slave labor are all rolled into, bundled, into something unquestionably sacred
according to the new superstition and or religion of the one true Free Market Capitalism / GOP / Democratic / Property political party.
Whatever.
“The Arc of the Superstitious Universe Is Long and Bends Toward Human
Destruction.”
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