Source: By KATHY MATHESON Associated Press Writer Updated: 08/27/2009
It is as I feared with football fans. Once the opening kick off is made, all thoughts of injustice, cruelty, crime and punishment are out the window. According to this article, there was barely any presence of protesters at Vick’s debut today with more supporters then anti-Vick’s being at the game. And when he stepped onto the field, a rousing ovation?
Oh wonderful. That’s the way to show the dog killer that crime doesn’t pay isn’t it? I just know Vick believes that given enough time, everyone will forget his prior conviction for enabling dog fighting and I believe, he will re-involve himself in dog fighting if given a chance and some sort of reassurance that he won’t be busted again.
So everyone has forgotten the pictures of the Vicktory dogs when they were rescued from Vick’s dog fighting compound. Everyone has forgotten the dead bodies that were dug up within these same compound grounds. We’ve forgotten the rape rack, the electrocutions, the hangings and the beatings for losing a match. The over breeding and the horrible conditions that these dogs were subject to.
Show us some decent football and we’re willing to forget everything we knew to be true just before the game started.
I, for one, am not prepared to forget. In my opinion, he has NOT paid his debt to society as long as dog fighting continues to be prolific in North America. As long as there are dogs still being forced to fight each other to the death, Michael Vick is guilty of the most horrendous of crimes and he does not deserve to be able to make millions a year as his reward.
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