is all the wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth about Michael Vick by the sports channels missing the point? This is a man who brutalized dogs, and who broke the law. And yet all we hear is about what his sentencing means to his team, to the NFL, will he be able to return to the NFL, etc. We hear about his team "supporting their teammate". And to see fans wearing Vick jerseys in "support", players wearing "Free Mike Vick" under their jerseys-is it just me who finds this disgusting and disgraceful? To me these people are just as despicable as Vick, if they support an animal abuser thus.
To me, there are few human beings lower than animal abusers. I hear some cry that there is not similar outrage over the murder of human beings, that "it's just an animal", etc. I hear the NAACP all but compare him to civil rights martyrs. Is the state of the civil rights movement such that Michael Vick is today's Martin Luther King? Either we have reached Mr. King's dream and the NAACP has nothing else to worry about or the civil rights movement is in dire straits.
Think about what this man did. He betrayed the trust of an animal to take pleasure out of its torture and/or death. Companion animals such as dogs and cats look at us to take care of them; they are completely and innocently trusting in us. There is little difference between what animal abusers do and betraying the trust of a child. Which is why FBI profilers look at animal abuse as being predictive of a life of violent crime; many serial killers start out with animals. If Vick was convicted of child abuse, would those who make the false analogies above make similar statements?
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