I love how buyers of fakes can condemn designers and their prices in one breath and then carry a look-alike bag so they appear to have paid lots of money for something they condemned! They cannot condemn the original if they are striving to pretend to carry one!
To be honest I'm not sure I buy the info that fakes support child labor, terrorism or the drug trade. But they are undoubtedly a copyright violation and to my mind, just tacky. Buy nice quality that you can afford, not a cheap knockoff of something you can't.
Do you have any references about the criminal activity related to counterfeit bags? I'm not saying I disbelieve it, but I have never heard of it anywhere but this forum.
Honestly though I don't think it matters much. I would never buy one or encourage someone else to buy one for my own personal reasons. Isn't that good enough?