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Friday
14Aug2009

Enough already . . . Give Vick a 2nd chance you hypocrites!!!!!

What kind of crazy, skewed morality do we subscribe to when NFL players are regulary suspended for a game or two as a result of domestic violence, yet people question whether Vick should be reinstated after serving a 23 month sentence for dog fighting!!!  I am sorry, but I think his prison sentence was way too harsh to begin with, but now that he has paid his debt to society, he should be given a second chance without question.  23 months of his life for running a dog fighting ring.  Drug trafficers, manslaughter offenders and pimps get shorter sentences than that.  Does anyone really believe that if I were charged and convicted with that same crime, that I wouldn't get off with probation?  But I am not a nationally known star who earns $100 million by throwing a ball and playing a game, which easily incites a spiteful envy amongst middle class Americans.  Furthermore, it would be hard for PETA to boycott Radius Church's sole sponsor - God. 

Tony Dungy, former Colt's coach and a fellow believer, is exactly right on this one.  EVERYONE deserves a second chance . . . and I want to talk to the high school and collegiate friends of anyone out there that thinks Vick doesn't deserve a second chance.  I would be willing to bet that if I looked long and hard, I would find that they, themselves, had been granted a ton of second chances in life.  I know I have!  Shame on those hippocrits who are stingy with their second chances - second chances are the stuff of life!

Reader Comments (4)

Ditto ! Ditto! Ditto!!!
August 14, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJARS
Let's ask the dogs how they feel about it. Oh wait, we can't. Most of them had to be euthanized.
August 18, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterANON
Actually he pled guilty under the Federal RICO (Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act)statute to financing the dog-fighting operation but not to to placing of bets on actual dog fights. http://sports.espn.go.com/photo/2007/0824/vickplea.pdf However, one of the factors in his sentencing was his evasiveness and deception as to his actual role after a plea was accepted. The Feds considered pursuing charges of making false statements in a federal investigation, but dropped it.

If you pled guilty under RICO, my guess is you would not get probation. I actually agree Vick deserves a second chance on the merits (but not a third chance I suppose?), but name-calling and labeling everyone a hypocrite seems counterproductive and just as hysterical as the people you are labeling. One might even say that would be hypocritical. The class warfare was a nice touch though. I'm glad the rich and the poor don't have an opinion on Michael Vick.
August 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterSteve
I hear you Steve, but Clinton made false and deceptive statements to prosecutors (It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is?), and he didn't even lose his job, but he was not an inner city gangsta type making $100 million for playing a game. I just think I smell some racism here . . .
August 31, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterTodd

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