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To: Eska
"I guess that you have never lived around Indian Country. Cultural practices are not judged by other cultures.

Indian practices, as you've put it, are carried out on reservations - property that was set-aside for the native American people as an area for the native Americans to govern and manage in accordance with their own cultural ideals and religious beliefs.

The urban areas of America's cities are not federally set aside areas for the inhabitants to govern as they see fit. They have to abide by the city, county, state and federal laws that have been passed in a democratic manner. Just because they don't agree with those laws, doesn't give them license to break them.

Forgetting for a moment that Michael Vick isn't a Native American, and that his dog fighting wasn't carried out on a reservation, or the inner city for that matter (his dog fighting took place on the property surrounding his suburban Virginia home), are you arguing that Vick's commercial dog fighting venture was somehow an expression of Vick's long-held religious views steeped in centuries of tradition?

Your argument is not very well grounded in neither history nor law.

16 posted on 04/26/2009 11:40:18 AM PDT by Big_Monkey
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To: Big_Monkey
Maybe I shhould have said dog fighting was a black inner city sport; but then I knew white guys, mostly biker types who bought, sold, traded pit bulls involved with fighting dogs. it was mostly blk guys involved with it. I'm sure it still goes on today and nobody is going to stop it. Ruining Vicks career was wrong.

I also saw dog fighting when I was in korea, well accepted too, course they ate dogs also.

I don't care where you find Indians, they practice their culture and don't give a hoot what the law says or what anybody thinks; you ain't gonna change them either. Guess that you've never been around Indians to know that though.

Just wait until the do gooders, touchy feely crowd decides something as American as Apple Pie is no longer acceptable in our modern society. You'll lose your freedom quick and then wonder how it happened. Animals were put on this earth for the use of man; not the otherway around.

24 posted on 04/26/2009 1:57:52 PM PDT by Eska
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