Ghengis Khan Lives! GMtee Suppressed! Free Tibet!

Carnegie Resurrected! World Protests!

Last month in Fashion, not politics you read about GMtee's Free Tibet shirt design. In the last few weeks we have mailed Free Tibet T-shirts all across the world. We've served customers mostly in the US (San Francisco), UK (London), Canada and Germany. I've been watching the television news of the Tibetan independence demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay with particular interest, in the hope of spotting one of our shirts in the crowd. Let me know if you've seen one!

We've dispatched Free Tibet T-shirts to cities as far flung as St. Petersburg, Russia; Treviso, Italy; Brussels, Belgium; Geneva, Switzerland; and even to an exclusive address at the Peak here in Hong Kong. But none to China for some reason.

GMtee is a fashion business and has no interest in politics, and you can infer whatever you like from the plain fact that we have designed and sold "Free Tibet" T-shirts. It's a tribute to the rule of law here in Chinese Hong Kong that GMtee can sell these shirts (and publish this post) without fear of repurcussions. Or can we...?

A Mr. Ghengis Khan e-mailed us this week from beyond the grave. His marauding style was succinct and to the point:


"DO NOT SELL FREE TIBET T-SHIRT!
DO NOT CHALLENGE CHINESE PEOPLE!"


I invited Mr. Khan to post a comment in the GMtee chat box or even here at the Genuine GMtee blog, but nothing yet.


Only slightly more irritating was the intervention of a saboteur using the eBay ID andrewcarnegie2008. Normally I do not publish names without permission, but this name might ring a bell. Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919) was the famous Scottish industrialist and philanthropist who made a vast fortune in US railroads and steel at the turn of the last century. When Mr. Carnegie ordered four Free Tibet T-shirts in four different sizes from the GMtee eBay store, we smelled a rat.


Plugging Mr. Carnegie's mailing address (4400 5th Ave., Pittsburgh) into Google I found the Carnegie Mellon Research Institute. There could be no mistake - Andrew Carnegie was alive and well and receiving mail at his own university in Pittsburgh! He must be 173 years old.


Hmmm... odd that his gmail account name looked Chinese. Could GMtee be under cyber-attack from forces of darkness across our northern border? Will they succeed in disrupting our business? Will GMtee buckle under the pressure or will we fearlessly flog our Free Tibet shirts regardless?


Stay tuned.