August 21, 2007

• There has been a lot of discussion lately about what should happen to dog hater Michael Vick, at least as far as the NFL is concerned. Should he be banned for life, maybe a suspension for a year, or the standard NFL suspension of 8 games. Personally, I think a suspension of a year sounds right. You have to do be consistent with other crimes committed by NFL players, for example, Pac Man Jones got a whole year, Tank Johnson 8 games. Sure, what Vick has done is worse than both of those players, but this is also his first transgression, those 2 losers have done lots of shit. For all of those people that want to say that he should be banned for life, here is my argument as to why he shouldn’t: Leonard Little. He unfortunately plays for the St Louis Rams instead of for a prison team, which is where he should be. 8 years ago he murdered somebody and yet he is not only a free man, but he continues to play in the NFL, after serving only 90 days in jail. Now I should be clear about something. He was drunk driving when he killed an innocent person, but honestly, that doesn’t change the fact that somebody is dead because of his irresponsible actions. Somehow, the justice system is totally out of whack because he only served 90 days instead of a more reasonable sentence of 2 years. Next, the NFL let him back in after serving a suspension of only 8 games. To make matters even worse, 6 years later, after the murder conviction was removed from his record, he got another DUI. That says to me that he just couldn’t wait until it was removed from his record before he started driving drunk again. In other words, he had not learned a thing from taking another person’s life and quite obviously showed no remorse for what he had done. Of course, that was obvious because the first thing he said after the accident was “Look what that bitch did to my car!”.  The NFL had a chance to correct this injustice by never allowing him to play again, yet he continues on. Sure there are some people that say the murder was an accident and yes, I can agree that he probably did not intend to kill somebody that night. But keep in mind that he CHOSE to drive drunk and when one CHOOSES to drive drunk, they automatically should be responsible for all of the consequences with such irresponsible and dangerous behavior. Right now there are people calling for Vick’s head, and rightfully so. But where were these people when Little killed a person and not some dogs? Where was the media coverage? Sure, MADD did protest his first game after his suspension. But, there was no national outcry for justice as there has been with Michael Vick. By all means, I’m not defending Vick, he will get what he has coming to him. But, why is it that a lot of people are more compassionate and humane when it comes to animals and not people?

  Now I realize the irony in changing subjects to this, but by now I’m sure you have all heard (especially those of you in Chicago) about the illegal immigrant who was living in a Chicago church to avoid being deported. As I’m sure you know, she left the church and was deported back to Mexico, leaving her kid behind. The Immigration Department refused to go in the church to get her. Here is what I don’t understand, since when did a church become a safe haven for criminals? Now I want to state that I’m not one of these right wing whackos that wants to deport immigrants immediately and never allow another immigrant inside the country. Play along with me here for a second and break it down. Being an illegal immigrant is a crime, making her a criminal. So does this mean that any criminal can hide in a church and be guaranteed immunity from arrest and prosecution? If this is the case, than that essentially means that Bin Laden can come to America and hide out in a church and be safe. Ok, so that is an extreme case, but please somebody explain to me why we refused to go in and get her?

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