HAS MICHAEL VICK PAID HIS DEBT TO SOCIETY FOR DOG FIGHTING?

RECENTLY MICHAEL VICK, A PRO FOOTBALL NFL PLAYER, WAS RELEASED FROM PRISON AFTER SERVING TIME FOR HIS ROLE IN A DOG FIGHTING RING. IT WAS STATED THAT HE MAY HAVE FAUGHT DOGS AS WELL AS BANKROLLED THE WHOLE DOG FIGHTING OPERATION HE AND OTHER WERE INVOLVED IN. HE HAS SERVED HIS TIME IN PRISON BUT THE QUESTION REMAINS HAS HE SERVED HIS TIME TO SOCIETY AND WHAT SHOULD BE HIS FATE WHEN IT COMES TO BEING REINSTATED INTO THE NFL.

PERSONALLY I FEEL THAT HE HAS SERVED HIS DEBT TO SOCIETY. THE PURPOSE OF PRISON IS TO PUNISH AND REHABILITATE THOSE DEEMED CRIMINALS BASED ON THE ILLEGAL ACTS THAT THEY COMMIT. THE COURTS FOUND HIM GUILTY AND PUNISHED MICHAEL VICK. HE WAS SENTENCE TO 23 MONTHS AND HE SERVED HIS TIME WITHOUT ISSUE. HE HAS BEEN RECENTLY RELEASE TO A $10/HR CONSTRUCTION JOB.

I THINK THAT HE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO RESUME THE LIFE THAT HE LED AS A PRO FOOTBALL PLAYER BEFORE HE WAS ARRESTED. THE PURPOSE OF REHABILITATION IS TO GET THOSE THAT HAVE SLIPPED OUTSIDE OF THE NORMS OF SOCIETY BACK INTO THE NORMS OF SOCIETY FUNCTIONING AS A PRODUCTIVE MEMBER OF SOCIETY. I BELIEVE THAT ANYONE WHO HAS BEEN IN PRISON OR JAIL FOR ANYTHING UNDERSTANDS WHAT THEY DID WRONG AND HAS EARNED AT LEAST A CHANCE AT SHOWING THAT THEY HAVE CHANGED THEIR WAYS AND WILL NOT FOLLOW THOSE BAD PATHS ANYONE.

MY ISSUE IS WITH THE PEOPLE THAT WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE MAN, THE HUMAN, SUFFER FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE FOR OFFENSES THAT THOUSAND HAVE COMMITTED MUCH MORE HORRIBLE HAVE COMMITTED WITH FAR LESS PUNISHMENTS. THERE ARE THE PRIESTS THAT MOLEST CHILDREN AND ARE TRANSFERED TO DIFERENT CHURCHES TO CONTINUE ABUSING. THEN THERE ARE THE DRUNK DRIVERS WITH THE SUSPENDED LICENSES WHO AFTER BEING CAUGHT NUMEROUS TIMES AND LET GO WITH A TICKET FINALLY KILL AN INNOCENT MOTHER AND HER POOR LITTLE INNOCENT CHILDREN AND LEAVE HOMES AND FAMILIES BROKEN FOREVER JUST TO SEE THE MURDERER GET 2-5 YEARS IN PRISON AND COME OUT AND RESUME THEIR TREATUROUS LIVES AND IRRESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR. AND LET US NOT FORGET THE MADOFF'S OF THE WORLD, AND THERE ARE MANY OF THEM, WHO SEND PEOPLE TO THE POOR HOUSE AND THEN GO TO FEDERAL PRISONS TO SERVE OUT THEIR SHORT SENTENCES WITH CELLPHONES, LAPTOPS, AND CONJUGAL VISITS IN THEIR CELLS. WHEN THEY GET OUT THEY ARE RELEASED TO THEIR MANSIONS AND THIER BUSINESSES THAT THEY BUILT OFF OF THE STOLEN FUNDS OF OTHERS AND CONTINUE TO LIVE AS THOUGH THEY HAVE NEVER EVEN STOLEN A GLANCE.

SO MY ISSUE WITH THIS WHOLE THING IS NOT SO MUCH ABOUT HIM BEING ALLOWED TO RESUME HIS LIFE KNOWING THAT THERE IS A CHANCE THAT HE MAY GO BACK TO FIGHTING DOGS AGAIN BUT MY STANCE IN THIS IS THAT SOCIETY HAS RULES AND ONCE YOU BREAK THEM YOU PAY. THOSE SAME RULES SAY THAT ONCE YOU PAY FOR BREAKING THE RULES THEN YOU SHOULD BE GIVEN A CHANCE TO PROVE THAT YOU HAVE BEEN REHABILITATED. MY MAIN ISSUE WITH THIS IS THAT ALOT OF PEOPLE CLAIMING TO BE TRUE CHRISTIANS ARE AGAINST GIVING THIS HUMAN A SECOND CHANCE. CHRISTIANITY TEACHES FORGIVENESS IN ALL FORMS. HOW CAN YOU FORGIVE YOUR CHILD FOR STEALING MONEY OUT OF YOUR WALLET OR SNEAKING OUT AT NIGHT BUT NOT FORGIVE A STRANGER FOR SOMETHING THAT HAS ABSOLUTELY NOT AFFECT ON YOU OR THE WAY YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE.

WHEN YOU WOKE UP THIS MORNING YOUR LIFE WAS NOT ALTERED ONE IT BY THE CRIME THAT MICHAEL VICK HAS COMMITTED. WHEN HE WAS IN PRISON NO ONE BUT HE, THE BRUTALIZED DOGS AND THE PEOPLE THAT DEPEND ON HIM LOST A MINUTE OF SLEEP. AND NOW THAT HE IS FREE WHAT IS HIS FREEDOM DOING TO KEEP YOU FROM PROVIDING FOR YOUR FAMILY? IS HIM GOING BACK TO THE NFL GOING TO MAKE YOU DIVORCE YOUR SPOUSE? DOES IT WARM YOUR HEART TO SEE A MAN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN DEBT IN THIS ECONOMY WORKING A $10/HR JOB?

IF HE IS SUCH A BAD PERSON THEN IT WILL NOT BE LONG UNTIL HE IS BACK IN JAIL AND TOTALLY DOWN IN THE DUMPS. BUT LET'S NOT FORGET THE CHARITIES MICHAEL VICK HAS CONTRIBUTED THOUSANDS TO, THE COMMUNITIES HE HAS GIVEN TO, THE BUSINESS THAT IS MICHAEL VICK HIMSELF THAT THE INCOME HE GENERATES PAYS THE SALARY FOR MANY AND FEEDS THEIR FAMILIES LIKE HIS TRAINERS, CHEF, SECURITY, AGENT, HOUSEKEEPER, NANNY, DRIVER, EMPLOYEES AT HIS CHARITIES AND THE LISTS GOES ON AND ON. THERE ARE SCORES OF PEOPLE WHO NO LONGER HAVE A WAY TO FEED THEIR FAMILIES THAT ARE IN DESPERATE NEED FOR THEIR FORMER EMPLOYER TO BE IN A POSITION TO RE-EMPLOY THEM SO THAT THEY CAN FEED AND CLOTHE THEIR KIDS, PAY FOR HEALTHCARE, AND NOT TO MENTION PUT THE EXPENSIVE GAS IN THEIR CARS SO THAT THEY MAY CONTINUE COMMUTE TO THEIR JOB. WHO IS CONCERNED ABOUT THESE PEOPLES LIVES. HOW BOUT WE SET UP A TRUST FUND FOR EVERYONE THAT HE FORMERLY EMPLOYED WHO NO LONGER HAS THAT JOB AND EVERYONE WHO DOESNT WANT HIM BACK IN THE NFL CONTRIBUTE SOME OF THE HARD EARNED MONEY THAT YOU MAKE FOR YOUR FAMILY EVERDAY AND DONATE TO THESE INDIVIDUALS TO PUT THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES BACK IN A GOOD PLACE. IT DOESNT SOUND LIKE SUCH A GOOD IDEA DOES IT? YOU ARE NOT ABOUT TO GIVE YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY TO SOME STRANGERS YOU CARE NOTHING AND KNOW NOTHING ABOUT? SO WHY THEN WOULD YOU STAND IN THE WAY OR HAVE AND OPINION ON SOMETHING YOU HAVE NO WILLINGNESS TO CONTRIBUTE A POSITIVE OUTCOME TO.

SO IN ALL FAIRNESS ALLOW SOCIETY'S LAWS TO BE USED TO PUNISH THOSE THAT COMMITT CRIMES AND REHABILITATE THOSE THAT HAVE SERVED THEIR TIME. THERE IS NO REASON TO PUNISH A DOG FIGHTER THE SAME WAY YOU WOULD PUNISH A MURDER. IS THERE? WILL YOU JUDGE SOMEONE AND NOT EXPECT TO BE JUDGED YOURSELF. I WONDER WHAT SECRETS ARE BEHIND THE CLOSED DOORS OF THOSE THAT ARE SO AGAINST MICHAEL VICK GOING BACK TO HIS JOB. DO YOU BEAT YOUR WIFE? DO YOU CHEAT ON YOUR HUSBAND? DO YOU STAB YOUR CO-WORKER IN THE BACK FOR YOU OWN GAINS? DO YOU TELL LIES? IF SO YOU SHOULD NOT JUDGE THIS HUMAN BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO RIGHT.

PLEASE COMMENT AND LET ME KNOW HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT MICHAEL VICK RESUMING HIS LIFE AS AN NFL PLAYER.

AS USUAL THANKS FOR READING.

Update 6-12-08:  As of today Mike Vick has not been reinstated into the NFL, however he was released from his contract by the Atlanta Falcons.  I believe this will help to get him back into the league with a new team.  Recent news sited his previous NFL couch as saying that Vick should be reinstated into the league.  There is a shortage of great quarterback talent in the league and currently Bret Favre is taking teams through hoops that are trying to get him to come out of retirement.  Why spend so much energy on him when Vick is trying to come back into the league and restart his career without all of the hoopla.