READER LETTER
Tiger Woods turns blind eye to human rights abuses in Dubai, says reader
In response to William K. Wolfrum's blog post "Tiger Woods design deal with Dubai: Nothing unique about taking loads of money to look the other way," I live in Dubai, and agree with the sentiments about Tiger being blinded with "Big Bucks" to look the other way.
Most foreign workers here are paid $3 per day; (yep three U.S. dollars) to work 10 hours in temperatures of [100 degrees and more], then housed 20 per room with a single toilet between 40 workers. They are conned into paying $4,000 to get the job with promises of a decent wage and when they arrive in Dubai they are enslaved - worse than slavery actually - slave owners look after their slaves, the contractors don't care about their workers.
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Tiger talks about charities etc etc; but his great great grandfather Doss Douglas must be turning in his grave knowing that his descendent is on the side of the slave matters; who are building a golfing community around his golf course selling villas for $10 million-plus whilst paying the laborers less than $3 per day, and then paying them at least six months late.
No this is not a bad dream; actually it is a bad dream come true for over a million virtual slaves working to build Dubai and the fortunes of their slave masters, of which Tiger Woods is must now be considered one, turning a blind eye is no excuse for human degradation and abuse.
May 2, 2008
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Marjorie Taylor wrote on: May 30, 2008
I apologise for making some typos in my earlier post. But I was a bit angry at this new attack on Tiger. Look at the More »
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Marjorie Taylor wrote on: May 30, 2008
Why this focus on Tiger re Dubai. Tiger goes to play there and is working on a project. The whole European More »
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L. Johnson wrote on: May 4, 2008
Just because you say it dosen' make it so. Have you spoken to Tiger Woods did you question him about this subject and More »
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Emily Brown wrote on: May 3, 2008
I was surprised to see that Doss Douglas was Tiger Woods' great-grandfather. I had never seen where Mr. Woods' More »
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Lester Hinson wrote on: May 5, 2008
Emily, are you telling me some guy who wrote a letter to the editor didn't have all the facts straight!? Gasp! I'm More »
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