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	<title>Comments on: Thursday Night at the Fights!</title>
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		<title>By: Karin from YardEdge</title>
		<link>http://www.first-magazine.net/2008/03/test-fightnights-gallery/comment-page-1/#comment-518</link>
		<dc:creator>Karin from YardEdge</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The photography is amazing.  The subject matter is disturbing.  This is the reality of where we live.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The photography is amazing.  The subject matter is disturbing.  This is the reality of where we live.</p>
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		<title>By: ESTEBAN AGOSTO REID</title>
		<link>http://www.first-magazine.net/2008/03/test-fightnights-gallery/comment-page-1/#comment-517</link>
		<dc:creator>ESTEBAN AGOSTO REID</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is quite apparent from the sundry images that people are definitely having fun watching others being pummelled and pulverized by punches.Also,glaringly obvious, is that many of the participants may not be physically or medically fit to withstand such pounding.Consequently,the question is,  what if someone dies during one of these bouts,or if not death, a state of being permanently comatose? Quite frankly, the likelihood or probability of this occuring is extremely significant.Specifically, in light of the fact that there are no medical personnel associated with Thursday Nights at the Fights.Such eventualities can be prevented by seeing street side fighting for what it is,i.e. violence, despite the supposedly brief  fun and euphoria it provides for displacing pent up aggression.And in doing so,formalize and structuralize this activity or event with the necessary rules, safeguards,and standards to protect participants while still having fun.RESPECT!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is quite apparent from the sundry images that people are definitely having fun watching others being pummelled and pulverized by punches.Also,glaringly obvious, is that many of the participants may not be physically or medically fit to withstand such pounding.Consequently,the question is,  what if someone dies during one of these bouts,or if not death, a state of being permanently comatose? Quite frankly, the likelihood or probability of this occuring is extremely significant.Specifically, in light of the fact that there are no medical personnel associated with Thursday Nights at the Fights.Such eventualities can be prevented by seeing street side fighting for what it is,i.e. violence, despite the supposedly brief  fun and euphoria it provides for displacing pent up aggression.And in doing so,formalize and structuralize this activity or event with the necessary rules, safeguards,and standards to protect participants while still having fun.RESPECT!!</p>
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		<title>By: fight watcher</title>
		<link>http://www.first-magazine.net/2008/03/test-fightnights-gallery/comment-page-1/#comment-515</link>
		<dc:creator>fight watcher</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thursday Night at the fights is not about violence its about fun. Why blame everthing that happens in the inner city for the high crime rate in the country and why look at just negatives we do have positives as well. I think people must understand or try to understand the things they comment on to past fair judgement.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thursday Night at the fights is not about violence its about fun. Why blame everthing that happens in the inner city for the high crime rate in the country and why look at just negatives we do have positives as well. I think people must understand or try to understand the things they comment on to past fair judgement.</p>
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		<title>By: ESTEBAN AGOSTO REID</title>
		<link>http://www.first-magazine.net/2008/03/test-fightnights-gallery/comment-page-1/#comment-516</link>
		<dc:creator>ESTEBAN AGOSTO REID</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The culture of violence has totally desensitized us as a people that we do not know right from wrong. We have totally lost our moral compass as a people and a society.Having children and women participate in street corner fighting is totally gross,savage,crude and bestial.Apparently,the pathological obsession with violence  in Jamaican society is so real and significant within certain quarters and sub-culture that even entertainment has to exhibit a violent quality in the form of street fighting.

Certainly,such events will result in socializing another generation of young boys and girls as to how to utilize and employ violence  in their daily lives vis a vis their communities and the larger society.Thus,reinforcing the cycle or circle of violence generationally, which in the case of Jamaica needs to be broken instantaneously, as a consequence of the astronomically high incidence of crime,violence and murders.

Paradoxically,the very parents that/who are supposed to be the crucial agents of socialization, with respect to their children eschewing such barbaric activities are also participants or avid supporters with their children in tow.Indeed, recreational activities in the form of sports and entertainment for inner city residents may be somewhat limited,nonetheless,as a society,street fighting involving women and children cannot be tolerated or promulgated,for obvious reasons,namely, the medical and of course legal costs, and the general coarsening of communities involved in such retrograde activities.Such activities must be strictly prohibited.

For individuals,young boys and girls that/who are interested in the science or art of pugilism (boxing), then formal structures involving this sport in the form of boxing gymnasiums with the appropriate staff members must be incorporated in the various communities at the bare minimum to accomodate such interests as opposed to what is now taking place.Community leaders,law enforcement, et al, should/must not be indifferent to this current barbarism, because it will spread like wild fire and at that point in time it will be extremely difficult to extinguish.

Interestingly, if as a people we are interested in breaking the cycle of violence in our society,we have to start somewhere, and this is one activity that should not be promoted,it is nothing more than raw ,wanton and gratuitous violence.Come on Jamaica we can do better than this!!RESPECT !!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The culture of violence has totally desensitized us as a people that we do not know right from wrong. We have totally lost our moral compass as a people and a society.Having children and women participate in street corner fighting is totally gross,savage,crude and bestial.Apparently,the pathological obsession with violence  in Jamaican society is so real and significant within certain quarters and sub-culture that even entertainment has to exhibit a violent quality in the form of street fighting.</p>
<p>Certainly,such events will result in socializing another generation of young boys and girls as to how to utilize and employ violence  in their daily lives vis a vis their communities and the larger society.Thus,reinforcing the cycle or circle of violence generationally, which in the case of Jamaica needs to be broken instantaneously, as a consequence of the astronomically high incidence of crime,violence and murders.</p>
<p>Paradoxically,the very parents that/who are supposed to be the crucial agents of socialization, with respect to their children eschewing such barbaric activities are also participants or avid supporters with their children in tow.Indeed, recreational activities in the form of sports and entertainment for inner city residents may be somewhat limited,nonetheless,as a society,street fighting involving women and children cannot be tolerated or promulgated,for obvious reasons,namely, the medical and of course legal costs, and the general coarsening of communities involved in such retrograde activities.Such activities must be strictly prohibited.</p>
<p>For individuals,young boys and girls that/who are interested in the science or art of pugilism (boxing), then formal structures involving this sport in the form of boxing gymnasiums with the appropriate staff members must be incorporated in the various communities at the bare minimum to accomodate such interests as opposed to what is now taking place.Community leaders,law enforcement, et al, should/must not be indifferent to this current barbarism, because it will spread like wild fire and at that point in time it will be extremely difficult to extinguish.</p>
<p>Interestingly, if as a people we are interested in breaking the cycle of violence in our society,we have to start somewhere, and this is one activity that should not be promoted,it is nothing more than raw ,wanton and gratuitous violence.Come on Jamaica we can do better than this!!RESPECT !!</p>
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		<title>By: Shay</title>
		<link>http://www.first-magazine.net/2008/03/test-fightnights-gallery/comment-page-1/#comment-514</link>
		<dc:creator>Shay</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 05:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am not laughing because i know i shouldn&#039;t be encouraging this:-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am not laughing because i know i shouldn&#8217;t be encouraging this:-)</p>
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		<title>By: Classic</title>
		<link>http://www.first-magazine.net/2008/03/test-fightnights-gallery/comment-page-1/#comment-513</link>
		<dc:creator>Classic</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I loved this article, feels like I was right there. Good work.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I loved this article, feels like I was right there. Good work.</p>
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		<title>By: OG</title>
		<link>http://www.first-magazine.net/2008/03/test-fightnights-gallery/comment-page-1/#comment-512</link>
		<dc:creator>OG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is some of the funniest sh*t ive ever seen.

Love the pics. Too much fun to be legal. wicked</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is some of the funniest sh*t ive ever seen.</p>
<p>Love the pics. Too much fun to be legal. wicked</p>
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		<title>By: Concerned</title>
		<link>http://www.first-magazine.net/2008/03/test-fightnights-gallery/comment-page-1/#comment-511</link>
		<dc:creator>Concerned</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Where are the parents of the kids in the ring and the kids watching? Someone could get seriously hurt! Why not do something posotive. We need to make a CHANGE before it is too late. We can&#039;t lose more kids to violence.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Where are the parents of the kids in the ring and the kids watching? Someone could get seriously hurt! Why not do something posotive. We need to make a CHANGE before it is too late. We can&#8217;t lose more kids to violence.</p>
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		<title>By: Peter Dean Rickards</title>
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		<dc:creator>Peter Dean Rickards</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>http://www.mediatakeout.com/users/22628/street_fighting_gaining_popularity_in_jamaica.html</description>
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		<title>By: GOOD GIRL GONE BAD</title>
		<link>http://www.first-magazine.net/2008/03/test-fightnights-gallery/comment-page-1/#comment-509</link>
		<dc:creator>GOOD GIRL GONE BAD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is why I miss yaad soo much, we jamacians now how to have a good time, and  always make the  Best of our situations. Keep yuh head up, JAMAICA NICE</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is why I miss yaad soo much, we jamacians now how to have a good time, and  always make the  Best of our situations. Keep yuh head up, JAMAICA NICE</p>
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