Spartacus for Puppies

We have become a culture of women

--Clever Fritz


I've lost and found, it's my final mistake
She's loving by proxy, no give and all take
--I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight, Cutting Crew

Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was...
--Once in a Lifetime, Talking Heads

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Who would be pro-dogfighting? How about a guy already earning a hundred million a year in pro ball, and a guy who thinks we need to toughen up as a nation.

Michael Vick, Atlanta Falcon's quarterback, has been indicted for running a dogfighting ring after 55 pit bulls in varying states of distress were found recently on his property (Vick Case Sheds Light on Dogfighting.)

Vick's ring, like most others, was found by accident. Police were on site investigating a drug-related charge against one of his relatives when they found the dogs.

Eric Sakach, West Coast regional office director for the Humane Society of the United States, who has been investigating dogfighting for about 30 years, estimates 40,000 people may be involved in the blood sport nationwide. Though traditionally associated with rural settings, Sakach says the biggest growth is at the "street level," in cities.

". . . gangs are increasingly engaging in dogfighting. "Instead of those guys getting in a fight and police getting called, they'll fight their dogs instead," Hunt says.

Brave men. Which leads me to include one response left on the aol message boards to the story below, sans editing:

fritzzwicky4 01:42:40 PM Jul 19 2007

"man you people have no clue.no wonder we the most powerful nation in the world cant beat a bunch of rag heads in a war .we have become a culture of woman . i love the people who set with a big helpling of fried chicken or steak and tells me how cruel i am for fighting dogs. hahaha. . . ."

Clever Fritz sees analogy between the wimpifying of our nation and the loss of taste for brutal entertainment like dogfighting. What emerges is his belief that it is more glorious to allow the dog to fight--and then killing him when "he is not game enough to go on"--than to disallow an animal to compete in competitions at all.

Upon arriving in this Deep South college football town, I remember my horror one game day on hearing a group of men asking, "Well, do you s'pose our nig---s will beat your nig---s today?" It is a mean, ugly, proprietary, slave-owner mentality, and it can be propagated by folks of any race, upon beasts of any species. It is an equal-opportunity vulgarity. Once infected with such decay of soul, no living creature is immune from exploitation by such an individual.

Welcome to the martial mindset of the 21st century. Strength=unthinking brutality. You're unworthy unless you die and come back on your shield. Except the men talking big, aren't the men dying big. Machismo by proxy. Will we never escape this brutality.

Same as it ever was.

--Lisa