The Humane Society was smart for coopting Vick instead of continuing to protest him. They’d seem pretty petty and impotent in trying fruitlessly to prevent Vick’s return to the NFL. Instead they scored a poster boy for ending animal rights abuses, while seeming moderate and reasonable in the process. In this manner they can establish themselves as a sane group that can be worked with, unlike, say, PETA.
Vick served more time than most people who commit assults against people. He served his time. Get off of his back.
PETA can stick it with their defamation campaign.
HE SERVED HIS SENTENCE. Just because he don’t say the right things that the animal rights PETA pets think he should be saying. Get off his back. He served his time.
I fail to have an issue with a convicted felon seeking honest work, and finding it, upon his release from prison.
I very much doubt that Vick is sorry for anything other than the fact that he got caught. That said, he probably does some good as a spokesman, however insincere.
...I don’t care about all this “he’s paid his debt to society” blather....I’m interested in the way he and his posse killed those dogs with electrocution/drowning/slamming ect...that’s very dark stuff...reminds me of adolescent cat torturers who later abduct, torture and murder women for kicks...at heart, Vick demonstrates a capacity for evil....I don’t think we’ve heard the last of him in that regard....the leopard don’t change his spots....
Vick just hung around with a bad crowd. Bunch of hanger-on losers who wanted to ride his jock. He never did any of this crap before he went to the NFL.
I have mixed emotions about this issue but wouldn’t mind reading the thoughts of other Freepers.
Of course there’s the all-American argument that Vick has served his time and there’s a lot of truth to this, no?
There’s also the argument that the man has a right to pursue a livlihood after doing his time and this is true?
Finally, shouldn’t the decision be up to the fans when all is said and done?
For no matter how noble my belief that he’s served his time, I just can never forget that this man threw dogs into a pool of water while it was electrified and allowed them to be electrocuted, all the while as they screamed with the horrific pain.
I can’t forget that he picked up dogs by their legs and body-slammed them against brick walls, again with the screams of pain and if they didn’t die from that torture, he had them shot to a final peace with a bullet.
And for what? Because this animal living only by its instincts and with its major desire to please its owner, failed at providing Vick funds from his torture of other innocent animals by the gruesome sport of dog fighting. Every way you look at it this is a bad, bad thing and only really, really bad people can do stuff like this.
I’m not an Eagles fan but if the Ravens took up Vick on their team I’d never watch a game again, buy a product from any sponsor of the games or read another word about the team.
So I proffer the good and noble sentiments that I should have but my gut instinct is to completely dislike this fellow as much as I’d like to believe he’s changed his ways. But that’s just me.
New team, new city, new possition.
As a man of influence in the Philadelphia Cock Fighting Community, I intend to reach out to introduce him to a new passtime.
When will Barney Frank and Chris Dodd be prosecuted and imprisoned for their crimes against America???
That is the justice we should be talking about. Not jumping on someone who has already done their time.
LETS TALK ABOUT CONVICTING REAL CRIMINALS!!
another spoiled arrogant overpaid barbarian who doesn’t even deserve hyphens alert.
This is the main reason I loathe professional football and basketball.
Ahhhh, I see the dog killing psychopath is out of jail. Poor man served 18 months and only draw's a salary of $1.6 million this year. He's laughing all the way to the bank....