MICHAEL JACKSON: ONE YEAR OF HIS DEATH

Patti Ragan wrote from her heart an appeal for North-American media to concentrate on the transcendental in the case of Michael Jackson and the chimpanzee Bubbles. When the chimpanzee was a baby and was not aware of the world around him, he lived crazy days of trips, shows, publicity and solitude. Ragan is the owner of the Center for the Great Apes, in Wauchula, Florida, where Bubbles live today with other famous chimpanzees and orangutans who made history in Hollywood movies years ago.

On the first anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death, TV channel Animal Planet together with the singer’s sister, La Toya Jackson, were at the sanctuary to show Bubbles and tell what she knows about his life with Michael Jackson during those years of shows.

In her commentary about the reporting on TV, Patti Ragan pointed that it put aside and did not show to American society – the one that mistreat and slave the most animals in the planet – the reason of the existence of sanctuaries and how it is wrong to use great primates and other animals as “pets” and at the show business.

Maybe the most positive point of the reporting was the comment of La Toya: “We all loved Bubbles very much, but now I know it is not right to use chimpanzees as pets or on entertainment”. At least the media did not hid this from the public.

Bubbles must have reflected, behind the cages with his equals: “Human beings who feel superior and world owners are superficial. They do not know that happiness come with the most simple things in life and with the sincere care among living beings…”.

Dr. Pedro A. Ynterian
President, GAP Project International