Uh, yeah...
This plea--which has quashed his season with the Atlanta Falcons, and prompted the league commissioner to suspend Vick indefinitely--will likely result in jail time, but I suppose what bothers me even more than the evil nature of dogfighting itself is how the story is only receiving attention from mass media because of Vick's star status.
Dogfighting itself goes on all the time across America (and elsewhere), and for underperforming dogs to be (for example) tied to a railroad track to be minced into oblivion is not new.
Such incidents simply go unreported 99% of the time, and due to lack of enforcement, are rarely brought to justice.
Thus, if the Vick case has any sort of silver lining, it's in exposing dogfighting for the barbaric "sport" it is, and applying pressure on lawmakers to sharpen legal penalties. By comparison, legal bloodsports like extreme fighting leagues are almost light-hearted as the participants fight by choice, and are not put to death for losing.
And to any self-righteous, evangelical right-wingers who downplay dogfighting as no big deal in light of abortion being legal (today) in America, please explain that to the following...
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I know of NONE of my fellow conservatives who are not horrified and disgusted by this travesty and the fact that it is widespread.
The fact that it goes on is vile and the fact that this waste of skin Vick was able to cop a plea without so much as turning in any other scum is disgusting.
I suggest you re-examine your straw-men.
Congrats on being disgusted.
But my crit of conservatives so obsessed with bringing down Roe that nothing else seemingly matters stands. Watch the right-wing nutjobs on Fox on any given night for numerous examples.
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