For everyone that has participated in the Victimization of Vick with all of
the comments of "He did his time, he paid for his crimes" - think again.

Perhaps, you should be aware of the facts of this case and more informed
of the actual "crime" this man paid of his debt to society. Perhaps, you
would then think twice before complacently handing out your second
chance arguments and support.

If your mind still forms the argument of "We all make mistakes" - perhaps
you will feel differently knowing that children are sporting dog masks to
football games mocking the dead victims of his crimes. Laughing - joking -
making fun - in support of their great idol with their parents right behind
them screaming "To hell with Dogs - we love Vick".

If this would not lower your head in shame, then I fear for the monsters
this has unleashed in division across this United States in support of this
great American hero.

Michael Vick "did his time" for Federal Racketeering, he served his prison
sentence for Federal Racketeering - ONLY.

The crimes, the heinous acts and crimes of Animal Cruelty - Michael Vick
pled "Not Guilty".

In a brokered Plea Agreement, the charges of Animal Cruelty were dismissed.
Thus, unpunished were these crimes, by this man, against humanity.

The known, proven, admitted crimes of murder, rape, and torture of innocent
defenseless beings was thrown out - dismissed - in the Plea Agreement.

The crimes in which, Michael Vick, systematically, prepared, planned,
participated and executed, repeatedly, against these animals, was left
unpunished in the legal justice system.

This is a known public record of fact.

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Below are the opinions of Michael Vick's deserved second chance by Bad
Rap's Tim Racer and Donna Reynolds.

Tim Racer -
It is no mystery that Michael Vick wants another chance at the game, the
money, and the fame that he once possessed. I am all about forgiveness
and second chances – when one is truly remorseful . There is of course
a world of difference between feeling badly about a wrong doing, and
feeling badly about being caught.

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Stu Bykofsky: Can Vicious Vick ever earn my respect?

 

 

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Stu Bykofsky: Can Vicious Vick ever earn my respect?

By Stu Bykofsky
Philadelphia Daily News
Daily News Columnist
Aug. 17, 2009

HAD YOU asked me, I would have wanted Michael Vick's punishment to
duplicate what he had done to poor dogs - beating, hanging, shooting,
drowning, electrocution.

But we are civilized. We don't do that.

His soulless, vicious sadism branded Vick a monster minus conscience.

At the time, animal-lovers and others asked if I thought Vick would ever
play football again.

I said yes. He would go through the now-familiar process - counseling,
rehab, remorse, jail. He would emerge and find a hungry team desperate
enough to take him and his freight-car baggage.

I never dreamed it would be my team.

As a lover of both animals and justice, I am conflicted. Many aren't.

Most animal-lovers wouldn't spit on Vick if his hair was on fire. The most
rabid Eagles fans are so starved they'd sell their first-born for a Super
Bowl win.

I am not rabid but, like the NFL, I'd let him play.

I don't forgive him and I still believe in tough sentences.

Vicious Vick got one.

U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson slammed him with one of the heaviest
sentences I have seen for the offenses he committed. (I will vomit the
next time I hear Vick or an apologist lamely say he "made a mistake." It
was a merciless felony - repeated dozens of times. He didn't just "run
a dogfighting ring," he was an active torturer and likely a killer.)

Vick deserved the heavy sentence. Hudson recognized the danger that
lurks in the sick minds of animal-abusers. He also questioned Vick's
veracity and contrition.

Vick has done his time. He has expressed remorse. Some say he has
"suffered enough." No, Vick's dogs suffered. What he did was pay a
debt to society.

Prison has two functions - to punish and to rehabilitate. Vick has been
punished, but is he reformed? I can't say what's in Vick's heart. I'm not
always sure of what's in my own heart.

Vick killed his reputation along with his dogs, and will have to work
long, very long, and hard to earn it back. He has begun speaking out
against dogfighting, but that's only a two-yard gain. Because he's a
longtime liar, Vick should show sincerity by sending a large slice of
his salary to the Pennsylvania SPCA's underfunded Animal Care and
Control Team. That would be fitting, because most of the homeless
dogs in the kennel are pit bulls, the same breed he tortured.

Getting ready to leave for work Friday morning, I grabbed my black
Eagles cap, then stopped. I asked myself if the hat might send a
message of support.

If so, wrong message. I wore another black cap with a bird logo - my
Temple Owls hat.

While intellectually I can accept Vick's hiring, it sickens me. I will not
buy nor wear Eagles green as long as Vick wears Eagles green.

Other (former) Eagles fans are selling their tickets on eBay and
organizing boycotts of Eagles' sponsors.

Fine with me.

Vick might make his first game appearance Aug. 27 at the Linc.
Outside, let's have pickets. Inside, the first time he sets his sorry
foot on the field, let's give Vicious Vick a real Philly welcome. I
don't have to be more specific, do I?

The hire is sad in many ways:

* Instead of a Super Bowl berth, the Birds bought what they hate -
a "distraction." They divided their fan base.

* They're letting Vick wear Ron Jaworski's No. 7? It was Vick's
number in Atlanta, but he's in Philly and that number belongs
to one of our heroes.

* Didn't the Eagles brag on "high character" players?

What happened? Did Andy Reid's experience with his sons turn
him into Father Flanagan? Did Jeff Lurie ask himself WWJD?

Am I right to mock them?

If you think about it, hiring ex-cons is not just kind to them, it's
smart for us. Take away the opportunity to earn an honest living,
they'll resort to crime. (I admit that being allowed to "earn a living"
doesn't mean we owe the bankrupt Vick an NFL salary.)

I believe in rehabilitation and redemption, because the world would
be black as midnight without hope. How can I say it's OK for some
other team to hire him, but not my team? That sounds a little
hypocritical, a little NIMBY - Not In My Back Yard. In the battle
between my principles and my feelings, principles win because they
are based on reason.

So I accept what the Eagles did, like I accept my arthritis, but I don't
celebrate it. And I don't accept it without protest.

I know that if he throws a touchdown pass, fans will cheer Vick. Most
of them, but not me.

Vicious Vick needs a whole lot more than six points to start earning
my respect.

E-mail stubyko@phillynews.com or call 215-854-5977. For recent columns:

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