DesertFox
08-31-2007, 10:55 AM
Deroy Murdock
National Review Online
29 Aug 07
Michael Vick, dog killer.
Here is the key fact in the ugly saga of football player Michael Vick: Thanks to him, dogs fatally were hanged, drowned, shot, and electrocuted. The summer airwaves have been choked with breathless talk about when Vick might resume his NFL career, when he gets a second chance, and how soon America can accept his apology for what he calls “a mistake.” Amid all this ceaseless chatter lie the cadavers of canines butchered as part of Vick’s criminal enterprise. ...
Michael Vick could be forgiven for his “mistake” had he bet, in the moment, on a dog fight into which he stumbled. Or, had he inattentively handed his friends part of his $130 million salary and later learned that they used his money to build a dog-fighting business, one might sympathize for a man hoodwinked by his pals.
But only jail time and permanent professional and social banishment should await a man who helped his co-conspirators hang, drown, shoot, and electrocute dogs. There is no excuse for such evil, nor should it be placed into context or explained away. Such carnage would be just as heinous if committed by a quarterback as white as New York Jet Chad Pennington.
Slaughtering dogs is as much a part of black culture as kabuki theater. Anyone who says otherwise is howling at the moon.
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National Review Online
29 Aug 07
Michael Vick, dog killer.
Here is the key fact in the ugly saga of football player Michael Vick: Thanks to him, dogs fatally were hanged, drowned, shot, and electrocuted. The summer airwaves have been choked with breathless talk about when Vick might resume his NFL career, when he gets a second chance, and how soon America can accept his apology for what he calls “a mistake.” Amid all this ceaseless chatter lie the cadavers of canines butchered as part of Vick’s criminal enterprise. ...
Michael Vick could be forgiven for his “mistake” had he bet, in the moment, on a dog fight into which he stumbled. Or, had he inattentively handed his friends part of his $130 million salary and later learned that they used his money to build a dog-fighting business, one might sympathize for a man hoodwinked by his pals.
But only jail time and permanent professional and social banishment should await a man who helped his co-conspirators hang, drown, shoot, and electrocute dogs. There is no excuse for such evil, nor should it be placed into context or explained away. Such carnage would be just as heinous if committed by a quarterback as white as New York Jet Chad Pennington.
Slaughtering dogs is as much a part of black culture as kabuki theater. Anyone who says otherwise is howling at the moon.
More (http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTZmNjVhNGU5NDMyODI4MTg2NWViMmY2MDMwMTEwMmQ=)