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ClorideRUS
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I'm kind of surprised this hasn't shown up on the forum yet. Maybe it has and I missed it. Anyway, as a sportsman how do you all feel about this. Personally, I'm so sick and tired of these spoiled pr!c&s thinking they can amuse themselves at the expense of the very thing we as sportsman cherish, that being respect for all creatures. What are your thoughts?
RUS
"So let me get this straight. People who think Michael Vick is "innocent'' of any involvement with dogfighting believe that Vick could have visited the Smithfield, Va., house he owned at any time over the past six-plus years and never noticed anything slightly suspicious about the activities going on there.
They believe Vick could have overlooked the dog-breeding "rape stand'' that federal authorities discovered on the property, or the blood stains that dotted the walls of those five black-painted buildings in the backyard? They contend that Vick was oblivious to what his friends and cousin were doing with those car axles buried in the ground, and those treadmills and syringes, and that piece of bloodstained carpet?
In other words, they believe that because they want to. They also probably thought Pete Rose never bet on baseball, Barry Bonds just underwent a freak late-career growth spurt, and O.J. Simpson was definitely framed.
Even if you choose to think that Vick never stooped so low as to take part in the cruelty to animals that federal investigators detailed so thoroughly in that 18-page felony indictment, it strains credibility to profess that Vick didn't know the first thing about the business being conducted at that house on Moonlight Road. Eyewitnesses placed him at the house numerous times in recent years.
Remember, we're talking about a dogfighting ring that is alleged to have spanned seven different states up and down the East Coast. This was no small-time operation. It took some money to fund the ring, and Vick, with his NFL millions, is an obvious suspect when it comes to bankrolling.
Even Vick's most ardent supporters would have to agree that knowing what was going on and not acting to put a stop to the behavior does not equate to innocence. Not even close. If ignorance is never a defense, then what kind of excuse is silent complicity? And from this vantage point, that's going to be Vick's best-case explanation for the whole mess".
RUS
"So let me get this straight. People who think Michael Vick is "innocent'' of any involvement with dogfighting believe that Vick could have visited the Smithfield, Va., house he owned at any time over the past six-plus years and never noticed anything slightly suspicious about the activities going on there.
They believe Vick could have overlooked the dog-breeding "rape stand'' that federal authorities discovered on the property, or the blood stains that dotted the walls of those five black-painted buildings in the backyard? They contend that Vick was oblivious to what his friends and cousin were doing with those car axles buried in the ground, and those treadmills and syringes, and that piece of bloodstained carpet?
In other words, they believe that because they want to. They also probably thought Pete Rose never bet on baseball, Barry Bonds just underwent a freak late-career growth spurt, and O.J. Simpson was definitely framed.
Even if you choose to think that Vick never stooped so low as to take part in the cruelty to animals that federal investigators detailed so thoroughly in that 18-page felony indictment, it strains credibility to profess that Vick didn't know the first thing about the business being conducted at that house on Moonlight Road. Eyewitnesses placed him at the house numerous times in recent years.
Remember, we're talking about a dogfighting ring that is alleged to have spanned seven different states up and down the East Coast. This was no small-time operation. It took some money to fund the ring, and Vick, with his NFL millions, is an obvious suspect when it comes to bankrolling.
Even Vick's most ardent supporters would have to agree that knowing what was going on and not acting to put a stop to the behavior does not equate to innocence. Not even close. If ignorance is never a defense, then what kind of excuse is silent complicity? And from this vantage point, that's going to be Vick's best-case explanation for the whole mess".
