THERE ARE VERY OFFENSIVE WORDS IN THIS POSTING. THEY ARE FROM SUPPORTERS OF PETA AND ARE FOUND ON PETA'S FACEBOOK FAN PAGE. I HAVE NO ALTERED THESE HATEFUL WORDS, WHICH I FIND DISGUSTING, BECAUSE IT NEEDS TO BE KEPT INTACT TO PROVE A POINT ABOUT PETA AND THEIR SUPPORTERS
Now this is a golden moment for me. Over on PETA's Facebook fan page, and whenever Vick is mentioned, you hear PETA trashing this man. Their brain have said the following:
(THESE ARE ACTUAL QUOTES FROM THE PETA FACEBOOK SITE, THEY ARE OFFENSIVE BUT I NEED TO POST THIS TO PROVE MY POINT)
*I'm ashamed to say I'm from Philadelphia.*he should be put into the pits with pit bulls tearing him apart!
*i hate him. he is such a disgusting human being and i dont think he is sorry ONE BIT
*I wish the football fans would throw dog shit at him when he runs onto the field!
*He needs to give a very large percentage of what $$ he will make back to PETA and other animal organizations to show true remorse.
*anyone who agree with that nigger michael vick who was release and allowed to make money playing football,is a punk bitch,and if i ever run into your ass,i 'll take a bite to your throat,lockjaw your ass on behalf of the pitbulls and other breeds he torture and killed.
*Ingrid Newkirk is a REAL hero.. We need to get our perspectives in place. To hell with Vick!!! Rot in hell!!
The last bit is my favorite. Ingrid is a 'real' hero. This woman killed dogs before she formed PETA, she is an advocate for wiping out ALL pitbulls and her organization, PETA, kills more than 5 domestic animals A DAY in theri headquarters. in 2008 alon they took in over 2,000 animals...all but 7 were killed BY PETA.
But those facts aside, here's the REAL kicker...I'm doing a copy/paste of this along with the link because this is from PETA's OFFICIAL website found here and it shows PETA basically had no issues with Vick, seemingly until his return to the NFL and they realized they could rape his life in order to get more air time for themselves. PETA likes to call themselves Media Sluts, so I'm not surprised. Here's what their own site says:
Vick Takes PETA Course in Respect for Animals
In August 2007, NFL quarterback Michael Vick pleaded guilty to federal dogfighting charges. The 18-page indictment gave gruesome details of the operation, which shocked the nation.
Vick Meets With PETA President
On September 7, 2007, Vick made an arranged visit to PETA's headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, for a private meeting with PETA president Ingrid Newkirk. Newkirk told Vick that PETA advocates an end to all exploitation and needless violence based on prejudice, including the prejudice against other species, and that PETA believed that arming himself with information and materials would allow Vick to better live up to his responsibility to counsel children not to engage in cruelty to animals. Newkirk also explained that although PETA realizes that it is in his legal interests to take PETA's course in basic animal empathy, our position that he deserves jail time and a lifetime ban on animal contact remains firm. During their meeting, he expressed his willingness to learn and his belief that everything in life happens for a reason, and he offered an apology to PETA and to "everyone" for "what I have done to dogs."
Initial Lessons in Empathy
Animals, Nature & Albert SchweitzerVick left PETA that day with some initial reading materials for empathy development, including Animals, Nature & Albert Schweitzer, edited by Ann Cottrell Free, which contains a particularly moving passage from the kind doctor:
I must interpret the life about me as I interpret the life that is my own. My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see, however strange it may be to mind. And not only other human life, but all kinds of life: life above mine, if there be such life; life below mine, as I know it to exist. Ethics in our Western world has hitherto been largely limited to the relations of man to man. But that is a limited ethics. We need a boundless ethics which will include the animals also.
Vick Returns to PETA for Basic Course
On September 18, 2007, Vick returned to PETA to take the "Developing Empathy for Animals" course, a one-day seminar including who animals are, alternatives to cruelty, animal protection philosophy, and humane lesson plans. PETA has now made the course available online, in the hope that it will be adopted by the NFL for all players to take and used as a means to teach children across the nation the values of empathy, compassion, and nonviolence.
Continuing to Stop Violence
Although the Vick story served as the first glimpse for many people into the gory details of dogfighting, the abuses detailed in Vick's indictment are as widespread as they are horrific. In the last year alone, PETA has responded to more than 14,000 calls and e-mails regarding other dogfighting and individual cruelty-to-animals cases. The crucial step now is to urge policymakers and law enforcement officers to treat all cases of dogfighting and cruelty to animals the same way that they prosecuted Vick's high-profile case. To that end, please join PETA and ask the NFL to require all its players, some of whom have been involved in a series of cruelty-to-animals cases, to attend PETA's "Developing Empathy for Animals" course.
So, from that time up to the point Vick was re-instated PETA seemed to have no issue with it. Now, below is a clip from MSNBC where Newkirk NOT says Vick needs to do more including giving 100% of his earnings to animals rights and she admits to meeting with him but now, suddenly he was 'slick' and she now seems to not be very impressed with their meeting...what a difference a few years makes.
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3 comments:
well, Vick is a damn douchebag...a good deal of NFL players are these days, it's a pity really...football's gone to the ghetto (and i'm not talking race). i don't know how the hell any of them got to college or through college (the lot of them are either white trash or gangsta wannabes with pitiful IQs)...while PETA is extreme in a lot of ways, they're right about Vick, the man should have gotten prison time or should have been castrated or some equally brutal thing should have done like what he did to the dogs. treating dogs like that, makes you wonder how he treats women or kids
I'm not defending Vick. I never would. But the facts are plain. Vick did serve 18 months in federal prison, is that enough? most likely not, if he were a regular joe he'd probably still be there but that's the problem with a celebrity obsessed culture. My point here is PETA met with this guy, they worked out what THEY thought Vick's problem's were and for over a year they had no problem with him.
It wasn't until he was re-instated by the NFL that PETA came back and began to trash him again. PETA is wrong for trashing him the way they are. They are no different and no better than Vick is himself. My criticism here is of PETA, not Vick who I feel is a truely offensive man. I also think the sports companies, NFL, NBA and such, should NOT be getting these kids right out of high school. They should have to go through college first.
ah, i see the point here. true, PETA has a tendency to get themselves into situations where they're wrong and look foolish. i'm glad you also think Vick deserves a more severe sentence :D
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