[lit-ideas] Dog eat dog.


As I've said before, and if you were paying attention you'll remember, I don't 
do sports.  So I had no idea who Michael Vicks was when his name kept being 
splashed over every media outlet in the country day after day after day.  All I 
know now is that he's a professional football player who has been accused of 
engaging in a dog-fighting operation.  I haven't read any of the articles or 
listened to any of the newscasts about him except for the headlines, so I'm 
speaking out of almost total ignorance here, and what I'm about to say will 
probably infuriate dog lovers everywhere, but I just don't see the great evil 
that's being decried by everyone.  He's not cutting off the beaks of millions 
and millions of chickens and turkeys and cramming them into cages where they 
can hardly move.  He's not confining pigs to tiny stalls where they can't turn 
around, pumping them full of growth hormones and making millions off their 
misery.  If he had done that, I could understand the outcry.  Nor has he sent 
4000 of our troops to their death or been responsible directly or indirectly 
for the deaths of 600,000 Iraqi people over some global dogfight for oil.  I 
could understand that people might want to have his head then.   But for canine 
dog-fighting?  Well, I'm against cruelty to animals as much as the next person, 
I truly am, but you and I -- we all support cruelty to animals every day in the 
supermarket just as we support the murder of human beings with every tax dollar 
we pay.  I give you George Bush.   Give us Michael Vicks!  Crucify him!  
Crucify him, crucify him.  Go figure.

Mike Geary
(of course if there was no outrage, I'd be outraged -- it's just that it seems 
so unbalanced)
Memphis

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