♦The Article: From CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/08/27/michael.vick/index.html
♦The Arguement
What.
I know that we as Americans have some sort of internal breeding to be trained to wag our tails at the stimulus of celebrity, but is this even news? I mean, yes, everyone knew that this ass-bastard was fighting pit bulls when the story first aired. I mean, his ‘co-conspirators’ (as this is apparently a federal dogfighting conspiracy charge, good game CNN) already folded under the pressure. How could all these people be conducting dogfights out of Vick’s home and Vick not know/be innocent of it?
Whatever.
I think what gets me the most about this entire story isn’t the charging of a guilty man for crimes he committed once he finally admitted his guilt. This story, like the Anna-Nicole circus, is an affront to the justice system, a scar on the face of our national media, and quite possibly, a cause for a number of people like myself to give themselves concussions from banging their heads against a wall.
“What I did was very immature so that means I need to grow up,” he said.
I get the ball, I throw the ball! A sentence of 12 to 18 months, are you serious? That’s just insane! I mean hell, Nicole Richie was only in jail for 98 minutes, and we’re gonna send a superstar like Michael Vick to prison for TWELVE TO EIGHTEEN MONTHS?
Someone sent me an email that said my first article/arguement was very well poised and well written, and that since then, the nature of my writings in general have started to go downhill. I want you to browse the places I get my news from, the things that might have relevance to my topic audience, and I want you to try and understand.
This isn’t watergate class stuff I’m dealing with here. I can’t make a sculpture out of shit.
But hey, if I could, maybe I could run in 2012. Or become a NFL star Quarterback.
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