Posted on 08/20/2007 5:18:01 PM PDT by kellynla
I certainly hope he is finished in the NFL, and any other public venue. What he did is beyond repugnant. And, he lied about it until such time as he knew he couldn’t lie any more. A real man would have owned up to it immediately if he was responsible. Thus, the take-away from all of this is that Michael Vick is still a punk, a gangbanger.
Which will ensure his martyrdom in the black community.
I’m not so sure about that. The pundits seem to think that the “gambling” issue is what’s going to get him. Alex Karras and I believe Paul Hornung were caught betting-and only go one year suspensions.
I’m suprised he is taking a plea deal rather than going to trial. No way a jury of “his peers” in Atlanta (which I believe is where the trial would be held) would ever convict him.
As someone else pointed out in another thread, it won't be the cruelty that does Vick in (although it ought to), it'll be the gambling.
The Feds were prepared to start adding charges.
And if you read the indictment, you will realize no owner in the N.F.L. wants the baggage that Vick would bring to any team. The way they executed those dogs will make you sick to your stomach!
If he gets one minute more time than Ray Lewis got for shooting another human being, then something is wrong.
My feelings exactly.
Anybody that works to turn these dogs into fighting monsters
then murders them for not being a good enough monster is beyond a monster.
Vick is evil. I hope he meets an animal lover in prison that wants to prove something.
Ol’ Bubba awaits his ingress into the slammer.
Semper Fidelis,
fontman
Any odds that he departs incarceration as Muhammad, Ahmad or Abdullah Vick?
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You may not want to hear this, but if Michael Vick is so evil, what about the zillions of peaceful flossie the cows we kill and eat every year? We don't eat dogs? But most of the world does. What about bull fighting?
How many dogs are killed in animal shelters every single day? Oh, that's humane killing.
Vick did something wrong, illegal, even brutal. But I'm not putting him up there with rapists and murderers.
An excellent question, actually, one I don’t have the answer to. Anyone?
Correctomundo. And more specifically, the taxes that he did not pay on those winnings. The Feds want to make it out to be a case of some thug hurting puppies. It will get them points in the court of public opinion. But what really bites their ass is the income taxes that he is not paying on his (gambling) winnings.
Nice... ;^)
Vick needs to be banned. The line has to be drawn somewhere. Maybe athletes will stop “keeping it real” with their loser friends when they hit the big time.
BTW, this statement in the article caught my eye:
["That would be a higher penalty than is usually recommended for first-time convicts, and reflects an attempt by the government to show that animal abusers will receive more than a slap on the wrist for their crimes, the official said."]
I found this comment interesting in light of an article I had read over the weekend about an illegal alien who raped a five year old girl while out on parole for an earlier rape conviction, and was sentenced only to probation by a "Federal Judge".
If he ever steps foot on a professional football field again, he and the league had better be prepared for the resulting wave of outrage and thrown dog biscuits directed at Vick at every venue he plays........home games included.
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