I know this isn't exactly breaking news, and I'd rather not give this lowlife any more attention than he's already getting, but I feel as though I need to say what's on my mind.
What Vick did was brutal, sadistic, and merciless. The man does not have a moral bone in his body, a noble beat in his heart, or an honest thought in his head. No amount of prison time and no amount of debt can rehabilitate a mind as sick as Vick’s. He is not, and never will be, a healthy man. Not after he shot, electrocuted, slammed, drowned, raped, fought, and tortured hundreds, if not thousands of innocent dogs. Asking Vick for genuine remorse is like asking Jeffrey Dahmer for genuine remorse, for their morbid and disgusting acts in which they took pleasure in are comparable.
No one should be comparing Vick to other criminals the NFL has embraced in the past. Vick is an entirely different case, for the amount of suffering he inflicted on the many innocent lives he tortured is unrivaled by any NFL player, past or present. If Vick plays in the NFL and he is cheered, every sadistic criminal in the world should be cheered for any good they do: The rapists, murderers, and robbers should all be applauded when they manage to contrive the word “sorry” from their lips.
Michael Vick will not get any cheers from me. In fact, I will protest wherever he plays; I will picket in whichever city he is playing in; and I will refuse to watch the NFL. Any league that promotes a man as bloodcurdling as Michael Vick is a league I want no part of.
This is not about being black, white, brown, or yellow. This is about, and only about, the ignorant monster that is Michael Vick. A life is a life. All animals feel pain comparable to what humans feel. And any man that would enjoy inflicting unfathomable amounts of pain on innocent dogs for recreation is not something I, or any other healthy man, can comprehend. I will not forgive or forget what Vick did.
Before I end this essay, I’d like to leave you with a quote from Leonardo Da Vinci, who was perhaps the smartest and most diverse man who ever lived. Da Vinci once said, “The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”
Pfft.
What'd you do, rip this off PETA's statement concerning Michael Vick off their front page? Jeez. You're a member of them or something?
Ok, listen. I respect your opinion. But you need to calm down and stop acting like Vick affected someone in your life. That's what I get from your message if nothing else. You don't want to watch a league where he's in? Fine. No one's amused by PETA pushing their nose into this, so I'm not worried about you protesting outside a NFL stadium. You did make me roll on the floor laughing when I read that part though.
But you know what? He didn't get away with what he did. He had his contract, back then the biggest ever given to the NFL player, stripped from him. He had his livelihood stripped from him, and he'll have to live with what he did for the rest of his life.
On the other hand, there are players in the NFL today who may have very well killed someone, but they're playing today without a hitch. Have you picketed a game that could include such a player? Or since dogs were the victims instead of
possibly a human, you're now off your seat like a fan who just saw their team screwed by the refs? That NOW you're ready to kick someone's who knows (funny how someone would say ass but it's usually someone's face...and of course, I know how someone could reply
) and take names, right?
Well...fine. You do that. But I'm gonna say something to you you've probably heard: they are just dogs. I already know what you wanna say to that, so save it. But that's the reality. I don't condone what Vick did, and I don't condone it may happen regularly in whatever regions in the USA they do.
But...I'd hate to think in a society, the way it is now, with pretty much many turkeys dying a year in the name of stuffing our bellies in late November, and then possibly late December, and all the cows that were sacrificed to again feed us in early July, something like what Vick did will have people like you up in arms, ready to make signs, get outside a NFL stadium, and say "we don't want Convick".
I respect that you're a vegetarian, but I won't accept that as an equivalent to protesting Mike Vick, unless you apply the same emotions to other animals I just mentioned. What I mean is: have you picketed slaughterhouses that kill the cows, the turkeys, and the chickens that end up on our dinner table, whether at home or a restaurant?
If not, why go after Vick? If not...you need to get over it. If not, leave Vick alone and realize he's served his time to society. You, and PETA.
