Marty
09-27-2005, 12:16 PM
Victoria,BC, Canada -- C. L. Cook - As bad as it is, sometimes CNN provides glimpses of greater truth than they perhaps intend. Tonight Newsnight's Aaron Brown [Show] featured a "human" interest story of efforts to rescue animals abandoned in the face of Hurricane Katrina.
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Pit Bull Packs of Disaster
C. L. Cook
PEJ News
September 26, 2005
This catastrophe has already provided rich analogies for the many injustices inherent to the American Way, but somehow the image of packing pitbulls, left by erstwhile owners to maraud the ruins of New Orleans and environs, encapsulates all that needs changing in the currently cracking consumptive social paradigm.
Pit Bulls, as any Stephen King fan will attest, are scary animals. Bred originally for their tough viciousness and set to fight in staged "rings," the hybrid dogs are infamous today for their unpredictable appetite for unattended toddlers and mailmen. That they are also popular "pets" for the fearful souls now populating the Land of the Free, Home of the Brave is just another facet of the continuing and revelatory disasters wrackinng America.
The guns, bats, and knives are apparently deemed by many in the U.S. as insufficient protection for the dog eat dog economic model making they enjoined to the "Greatest Nation on Earth." No; now leading a slavering beast for many is the extra bit of safety and security believed required to allow an unmolested evening promenade, or good night's sleep. But as with any tool, when push comes to shove it'll be dropped when its weight compromises the safety and security of its wielder. So it was for that (?) number of these animals; abandoned to the anarchy of Katrina.
Now, intrepid Anderson Cooper, seconded to intellectual somnambulist Aaron Brown and his incredible Newsnight program, is reporting human interest stories from the aftermath. Tonight he faithfully reports of packs of abandoned pit bulls loosed, presumably ready to prey on their former masters, and any others they encounter.
But then, their report may be bogus!
On the same program, CNN tut-tuts the wild rumours of baby-raping, murder, and all manner of alarmism disseminated during Katrina's late hours in New Orleans. Knowing now of the militaristic response to the lost city, the deployment of army sharp-shooters, cops that looked more like shock troops, and corporate mercenaries, all equiped with "no question shoot to kill" orders, sends the same message those deserted dogs know too well:
www.pej.org
Pit Bull Packs of Disaster
C. L. Cook
PEJ News
September 26, 2005
This catastrophe has already provided rich analogies for the many injustices inherent to the American Way, but somehow the image of packing pitbulls, left by erstwhile owners to maraud the ruins of New Orleans and environs, encapsulates all that needs changing in the currently cracking consumptive social paradigm.
Pit Bulls, as any Stephen King fan will attest, are scary animals. Bred originally for their tough viciousness and set to fight in staged "rings," the hybrid dogs are infamous today for their unpredictable appetite for unattended toddlers and mailmen. That they are also popular "pets" for the fearful souls now populating the Land of the Free, Home of the Brave is just another facet of the continuing and revelatory disasters wrackinng America.
The guns, bats, and knives are apparently deemed by many in the U.S. as insufficient protection for the dog eat dog economic model making they enjoined to the "Greatest Nation on Earth." No; now leading a slavering beast for many is the extra bit of safety and security believed required to allow an unmolested evening promenade, or good night's sleep. But as with any tool, when push comes to shove it'll be dropped when its weight compromises the safety and security of its wielder. So it was for that (?) number of these animals; abandoned to the anarchy of Katrina.
Now, intrepid Anderson Cooper, seconded to intellectual somnambulist Aaron Brown and his incredible Newsnight program, is reporting human interest stories from the aftermath. Tonight he faithfully reports of packs of abandoned pit bulls loosed, presumably ready to prey on their former masters, and any others they encounter.
But then, their report may be bogus!
On the same program, CNN tut-tuts the wild rumours of baby-raping, murder, and all manner of alarmism disseminated during Katrina's late hours in New Orleans. Knowing now of the militaristic response to the lost city, the deployment of army sharp-shooters, cops that looked more like shock troops, and corporate mercenaries, all equiped with "no question shoot to kill" orders, sends the same message those deserted dogs know too well: