Michael Vick obviously doesn't read my blog. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, if you wouldn't do it to a baby, you shouldn't do it to an animal. That includes: shooting, hanging, electrocuting, smashing on the ground, starving, burying in the back yard, or sport fighting. I know, baby fighting sounds entertaining, but all it takes is one kid with that single chiclet to really make things messy.
Vick could be innocent. He is until proven guilty. So we won't really know for another 1-2 years, depending on how much his lawyers cost. In the meantime, I would advise that no one let this guy babysit. Maybe he does read my blog. Maybe he can do this to animals, because that's how he treats children. How many bed wetters does he have buried in his back yard?
Vick could be innocent of the charges brought against him. However, someone tortured and murdered those animals on his property. If the feds do a raid on his house and find a backyard full of toddlers, what's his defense going to be? "They're not my bed wetters."
Vick could be innocent. One has to ask, what would make a guy who has so much to lose do something so stupid, so cruel, and so illegal? One could ask that for a number of celebrities and sports figure besides Vick. Maybe he can risk it all, because nothing will be lost. He knows that if caught, he faces a maximum of one slap on the wrist, and a fine up to a year's wages for a burger fryer. But the job will still be there, the fans will still be there. The spot light will still be there, although angled just a bit so the pile of dog carcasses don't upstage him.
However, if Vick is found guilty, he could face up to six years in prison and a fine of $350,000. Even if he did get the maximum, it seems kinda light to me. Six years for someone who slaughtered animals purely for sport? Check that, tortured animals purely for sport. Their murder was the most humane thing done to them. Do we want a guy on the street whose past time is torturing animals? Not the streets of America anyway.
Perhaps he was just auditioning for a job with the CIA. Maybe he already had a job with the CIA. Being an NFL quarterback was just a cover, and these dogs were really enemy combatants. First they were secreted away to a clandestine prison in Virginia, a sort of no-mans land for international law. To get them to talk, they forced the dogs to do humiliating tricks like play dead, beg, and sing. When that didn't work, they were stacked into canine pyramids, and photographed wearing cute sweaters, hats and little booties. Finally, Special Agent Vick and his toadies were brought in to work them over. Sadly, torture proved just as ineffective with these dogs as it has with humans. Whatever secrets they had, they took with them to a shallow grave in Virginia. But it was all for National Security.
So the question then becomes, who gave the order? President Bush? Vice President Cheney? NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell? Or those who continue to put these people in a position of authority, the season ticket holder?
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