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Friday, November 28, 2008

Black Friday: Third World USA

In poor third-world countries, people riot and stampede over food and basic necessities. It is literally a matter of life and death.

In America, shoppers trample fellow human beings over DVD players and video games.
A worker died after being trampled and a woman miscarried when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island Wal-Mart Friday morning, witnesses said.

Witnesses said the surging throngs of shoppers knocked the man down. He fell and was stepped on. As he gasped for air, shoppers ran over and around him.

Paramedics treated the woman inside the store and then, according to Keys, told the woman:

"There's nothing we can do. The baby is gone."

He could have been talking about our society as well...

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