Killed For Existing

UPDATE:

One of the newspapers I emailed my letter to the editor on the Kansas City Pit Bull slaughter, below, back on
August 13th, was published, in The Salina [Kansas] Journal, on August 26, 2006.

TLC
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The amnesty granted to Kansas City, Kan., pit bull owners ends at 5 p.m. Sunday, and with it the city’s intensified enforcement of its ban on the dog breed.

As of Thursday, animal control had picked up or received 149 pit bulls since July 28, when Mayor Joe Reardon announced that the city would temporarily waive penalties for pit bull owners who relinquished their animals. More than two-thirds of those dogs were picked up or turned in during the first week.

Full Article, Kansas City Star, August 12, 2006.


My letter to the Kansas City Star, and others who carried that or variations of that article:


Dear Editor,

How sad that Kansas City Kansas, like other cities, has made the mere status of being a pit bull, or even looking too much like a pit bull, to be a crime punishable by death.

How long until this mindset is extended to others, such as people of color, people without a home of their own, and people who were born at a different spot on this planet we share but who are in the U.S. without a green card?

We've been down this road before. Then it was Jews, Gypsies, and other "undesirables". Unfortunately, some have learned the wrong lessons from history.

Sincerely,

Terry L. Clark