To Forgive Or Not To Forgive.....I say No Part 1

Two words, Michael Vick.

To some he is a sports hero, an icon, a man with a redemption story, and someone who overcame insurmountable odds.

To me and many others, he is a sociopath, a felon, a sick and twisted individual and a sadistic monster.  He is a man, I stand corrected, as no man would do this, admitted as a child that his first dogfight as a child excited him yet still knew it was cruel.  Yet here we are

The first dog fight- Clip from Piers Morgan interview 7/18/12 (You Tube)

I have yet to understand how a man who fights dogs, tortures them in the most horrific of ways, and does so for in his words, "the adrenaline rush of it" become a hero?

But to some he has, to others he is a monster.  There is no middle ground when it comes to Michael Vick.

What can we say about our society when that is the caliber of a human being that people want to look up to and allow their children to look up to?  I for one am disappointed.   Are the sins of this man forgotten because he can throw a football?   This is what constitutes a hero in our society?  To the sports world it does.

You never hear anyone in the NFL arena speak the truth of what Michael Vick did.   It was not just dogfighting as they suggest.  The time he served in prison was because he lied to the grand jury and bank rolled a dog fighting operation.  Furthermore contrary to popular belief he NEVER served one day for what he did to those dogs.   The truth will not go away because someone refuses to tell it.  The truth of what Michael Vick did to those dogs will always be there.

Michael Vick Indictment

The proof is in court documents.  No one made up the things he did.  The "hero" who puts his hands on the football every Sunday... those are the same hands that held a dog's head down in water until it drowned, and the same hands that held on to the legs of a dog along with Quantis Phillips and repeatedly swung the dog over his head bashing its head to the ground over and over until it was dead.

For those of you who do not know you ask,  Why?   The reason, because they would not fight.  Unless they could fight they were useless to him.

Here is a quote from the Lost Dogs, a book written by Jim Gorant.  A book that documents the truth from the beginning to the end of the case against Michael Vick.  After reading it you will realize the real victims and the true hero's were the dogs and those who rescued them.

As [the little red dog] lay on the ground fighting for air, Quanis Phillips grabbed its front legs and Michael Vick grabbed its hind legs. They swung the dog over their head like a jump rope then slammed it to the ground. The first impact didn't kill it. So Phillips and Vick slammed it again. The two men kept at it, alternating back and forth, pounding the creature against the ground, until at last, the little red dog was dead.

Michael Vick is the epitome of Humanity's Shame

The Lost Dogs