Michael Vick is a monster who, for either sadistic reasons or sociopathic ones, tortured animals to death in the manner of a budding serial killer.
But monsters, like Vick, have always existed in our society.
However our monsters in the past have seldom had access to the sleazy enablers that Vick possesses: Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lune hiring Vick, and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, allowing it to happen. A slew of dirtbag sports columnists and Vick apologists talking sanctimoniously about "redemption" and second chances and Vick's right to make a living (as if anyone had a "right" to be a quarterback in the NFL). The lawyers and soulless PR hacks who wrote the by-the-numbers script for Vick to mouth the empty words of contrite boilerplate that he would have to say before the preordained conclusion to the charade of his public apologies (How convenient that his regret and self-realization aligned so perfectly with his ultimate financial interests.) achieved their obvious cynical purpose.The fans who talk of MVP awards and how Vick brought "excitement" back to the game. And now, the first in the inevitable line of companies that will throw more money at Vick to associate his personae with their product.
Well, why not? We've become a nation of torture-coddlers, For eight years we had a Torture Administration. Now we have a president and a congress who will do nothing to punish it in the past or prevent it in the future. One party, we now know, is the Torture Party, and the other is the Acquiescence Party. In the last decade cruelty was repackaged as courage and sadism became an indispensable element of public policy.
We, the American people, because of the choices we have made and the behaviors we have accepted, stand for nothing anymore but greed and craven expediency.
Michael Vick is an Eagle. Let's make him our national symbol,
He's what the people want.
He's what they deserve.
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