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Third World people would be much better off as dogs, as far as Amerikkkans are concerned. The death of a millionaire Leona Helmsley created an inheritance of $12 million for her dog according to documents made public on August 28th.
Two of four grandchildren received $5 million each and her driver $100,000. The dog will eventually join Leona Helmsley's memorial mausoleum.
Although the story covers the foibles of the rich and famous, even the Fox News infotainers found it appropriate to run the Associated Press story on Helmsley's will.(1) On the plus side, the majority of wealth will go to her charitable foundation, but the point remains that a dog is worth $12 million.
In the news even longer was the fate of star football player Michael Vick. Vick pled guilty in connection to killing dogs for sport. He was a quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons team. Now he is asking forgiveness via his Christianity.(2)
The reaction to Vick says that it is no longer cool to kill animals. There is something that Amerikans find scary about it. The management of the football league now says he is suspended from his football career indefinitely.
While reaction to the Vick case was swift and a lead story, the prison in Cuba the United $tates is running is still open. Also, on August 28, we received a verdict on Abu Ghraib, the infamous prison scandals involving sexual torture and murder in Iraq-- a reprimand. The only officer to be tried for Abu Ghraib was Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan and he "was convicted only of disobeying an order to keep silent about Abu Ghraib. Even that drew only a reprimand."(3)
So if one is a dog, the reaction of Amerikkkans and even Blacks will be swift, but then again, Amerikkkan dogs are higher class than most Third World people, thanks to the wealth of Amerikkkan pet owners. If one is Afghan or Iraqi and only appropriating one twentieth or less the annual labor that an Amerikkkan does, then we can be sure that the Amerikkkans' pets outrank them. In that case, sexual torture and murder of prisoners is OK, unless one squeals. Yes, that is the kind of country the united $tates is--to hell with the animal-lovers.
If one is Third World, Uncle $am embargoes your kids to death, six digits at a time.(4) In contrast, if one could just be an Amerikan pet, the Amerikans start a movement to boycott China for tainting their pet food.(5) Then for weeks after that, CNN TV will run story after story on why China deserves a boycott, only now to realize that maybe the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) is in on the deal.
Notes:
1. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294981,00.html
2. Lauren Green, "Disgraced Atlanta Falcons QB Michael Vick Finds Jesus,"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295056,00.html
3. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/opinion/30thu1.html?hp
4. Ward Churchill, "Some People Push Back,"
http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/mn/sept112001/somepeoplepushback.html
5. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=au6whs0h6LU4&refer=asia
Dune Lawrence, "China Says Two Companies Face Prosecution for Tainted Pet Food,"
27Aug07.
Jonathan Birchall, "Boycott betrays a hint of Sino-itis," Financial Times, 8Aug07.