[bpmartyr]

Keep Your Laws off My Doggie
By Mike S. Adams
Friday, August 24, 2007

I’m a big supporter of Michael Vick. Not the old Michael Vick who used to play football. I’m talking about the new Michael Vick who’s getting railroaded by the man. You may think I’m being sarcastic but I’m not. Give me a few hundred more words to explain and I’ll make you a supporter of Michael Vick, too.

It all started a few nights ago when I had a dream. In the dream I was at a dog fight somewhere in the back woods of Georgia. I’d never been to a dog fight before and I couldn’t believe how brutal it was to see such a thing first hand. One dog started to overtake the other and eventually the other dog just collapsed lifeless there in front of me.

The worst part of it all was that the victor just kept on fighting even after the loser’s fate was sealed. His teeth were dripping with blood but he just kept on tearing at the fallen dog’s flesh. Before long I realized it was not going to be over until the loser had been torn limb from limb.

I just said that the worst part of it all was that the victor just kept on fighting even after the loser’s fate was sealed. But that isn’t true. The worst part of it all was that the crowd was going wild. There were lots of rednecks everywhere and I can say that because that is my heritage. But these were rednecks like I’d never seen before in Mississippi. These were Georgia Dog Fight-Watching Rednecks with crooked teeth. You could almost imagine them saying “Boy, you sure have pretty teeth” except that they were too busy saying “Rip the some-***** limb from limb” and “yahoo” and other assorted Dog Fight-Watching comments.

I just sat there for awhile in silence. But then I decided to say something. I turned to the guy next to me and said, “Man, this is brutal. This is the most brutal thing I’ve ever seen.” He said, “Not me. I used to work in an abortion clinic.”

Right away I knew what he was talking about. And so did the only feminist who was there watching the dog fight. She must have been overcome by the moral repulsion brought on by her awareness of the contradiction. While dog-fighting was illegal for all, women everywhere enjoyed a constitutional right to abort their children. A dangerous message was being sent and, to her, the course of action was clear.

I also dreamed that before long there was an organized movement to make dog-fighting legal. The feminists were outside of courthouses wearing t-shirts and holding signs that said “Keep your laws off my doggie,” “My doggie, my choice,” and something I couldn’t understand about a case called “Rover v. Wade.”

But they didn’t stop there. In my dream, the feminists built coalitions. They called the Southern Poverty Law Center and talked about how most prosecutions for dog-fighting were of poor southerners. Pretty soon, a group called “Hicks for Vick” emerged.

And they played the race card, too. With all the cockfighting in rural Mexico, the feminists were able to convince the Hispanic organizations that they could be targeted, too. Because they were concerned about racism, they started a group called “Spics for Vick.” I didn’t think you could say “spic” anymore. But these people were mostly Mexicans so the rules that applied to me didn’t apply to them.

Before long the feminists had their way and dog-fighting, ****-fighting, and all kinds of fighting was made legal – not just legal but protected under the U.S. Constitution, too. And this kept people from asking really tough questions like “Which one do you care the most about - a pit bull or a human fetus?”

And then I woke up and the terrible moral inconsistency was staring me right in the face. But it had all just been a dream. I could shut my mouth about the dream, go on with my business, and say a few bad things about Michael Vick while lots of people were standing around. That would be enough to show them how much I care about doggies and what a good person I must really be.

[Xodus]

Wow.

I'm not touching this one with a 10 ft. pole...



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[warbird01]

hmmm, dog fighting worse than abortion? Its all about your point of view. I support vick just cause i think the media/peta/animal lovers are going way too far with this...

[Rodja]

Originally Posted by warbird01

hmmm, dog fighting worse than abortion? Its all about your point of view. I support vick just cause i think the media/peta/animal lovers are going way too far with this...

I don't because it only puts pitbulls back in the media spotlight in a negative fashion. I have been around many pits and they are some of the best dogs you will find. It has been a hard week for one of my best friends because he had to put his pit down because she had lymphoma.

[Jayhawkk]

Apples and oranges. Not even close to a debatable argument.

[warbird01]

Originally Posted by Rodja

I don't because it only puts pitbulls back in the media spotlight in a negative fashion. I have been around many pits and they are some of the best dogs you will find. It has been a hard week for one of my best friends because he had to put his pit down because she had lymphoma.

yeah, its all perspective. I dont have a pitbul so all i see is how their in the media eating babies, ect.

Whats my view? That they CAN go kinda crazy and i would never have one. I think thats the view of most of America. Is it true, i dunno...

[nycste]

Originally Posted by warbird01

yeah, its all perspective. I dont have a pitbul so all i see is how their in the media eating babies, ect.

Whats my view? That they CAN go kinda crazy and i would never have one. I think thats the view of most of America. Is it true, i dunno...

any stupid dog or animal or person can go crazy. you cannot predict this. no one knows exactly what makes a serial killer or one who kills once and never again. this goes for dogs animals or anything of the sort.

stupid chiwahwahhs can kill a baby too im sure. they attack kids but you never hear about it. cuz its not fatal. pitbulls and other figher type dogs have that ability for survivial. chiwahwahs would be soo gone if it wasnt for humans

[kwyckemynd00]

Originally Posted by Jayhawkk

Apples and oranges. Not even close to a debatable argument.

Bingo.

Dog fighting is like having a kid and raising it only to torture it. Its not that we find dogs more important that humans or anything.

Although, I personally would rather see a 2mo old fetus being aborted when it wasn't developed enough to feel the physical or emotional pain associated with death than see an animal who is capable of feeling the emotional and physical pain associated with the lifestyle Vick put those dogs into.

And to those people who think Dogs are stupid because they simply lack the physical equipment necessary to produce a voice, you probably shouldn't own an animal. Gimpy has a dog that can literally count (e.g. if you hid three of its toys it will wait for you to give it all three before leaving; works every time, thought it was a fluke at first but the damn dog can count) and I've seen parrots that can have conversations and even make requests from their care-takers (look up alex the african grey).

I don't think its fair to say that an animal is just an animal when they've got much more in common with you than a 8wk old fetus.

[warbird01]

Originally Posted by nycste

any stupid dog or animal or person can go crazy. you cannot predict this. no one knows exactly what makes a serial killer or one who kills once and never again. this goes for dogs animals or anything of the sort.

stupid chiwahwahhs can kill a baby too im sure. they attack kids but you never hear about it. cuz its not fatal. pitbulls and other figher type dogs have that ability for survivial. chiwahwahs would be soo gone if it wasnt for humans

like i said, that is what the media or wahtever makes it seem. Its what im sure 95% o the public thinks

[CDB]

I'm just wondering about the perspective. You've got pro athletes regularly doing ridiculous things, and apparently none too small of a criminal element too that enjoys gang banging, wife beating, various drug cocktails, murder, rape, assault, etc. I'd be more interested in why what Vick did, which I think is disgusting, draws more attention and causes more repulsion than the pro athletes who have raped, assaulted, and murdered people. Or more attention than the murder rate for a typical US city. I mean people are being killed and brutalized regularly. I wonder why people seem relatively insensitive to that while the exposure of one dog fighting ring seems to make them want to start a lynch mob.

Although I'm also wondering what someone is capable of towards another human being if they can brutalize dogs so easily. If someone had tried to take my old dog for one of their fighting dogs to 'practice' on I'd have had the bastard's nuts stuffed and mounted on my wall. So I've got the same over reaction I think. I'm just wondering where it comes from.

[Xodus]

Originally Posted by CDB

Although I'm also wondering what someone is capable of towards another human being if they can brutalize dogs so easily. If someone had tried to take my old dog for one of their fighting dogs to 'practice' on I'd have had the bastard's nuts stuffed and mounted on my wall. So I've got the same over reaction I think. I'm just wondering where it comes from.

Because dogs kick ass. And I like my dog more than most people I know.

I'm with you, if someone took my Shepherd for a bait dog, their nuts would be tacked to my wall, probably with them still attached so they could get a random beat down any time I thought about it...

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[CDB]

Originally Posted by Xodus

Because dogs kick ass. And I like my dog more than most people I know.

I'm with you, if someone took my Shepherd for a bait dog, their nuts would be tacked to my wall, probably with them still attached so they could get a random beat down any time I thought about it...

X

Good point. I tend to like dogs more than people a lot too. I'll tell you one thing I can't stand, and that's people who don't like dogs. They're one of the oldest domesticated animals around, they may as well be part of our DNA. A person who doesn't like dogs is an odd ball I can't quite wrap my head around.

[jomi822]

wow author of this article...swing and a miss.

why not try to throw global warming and illegal immigration into bed with abortion while youre at it?

what a person does to their own body and what a person does with dogs in a kennel are not alike at all.

[CDB]

Originally Posted by jomi822

wow author of this article...swing and a miss.

why not try to throw global warming and illegal immigration into bed with abortion while youre at it?

what a person does to their own body and what a person does with dogs in a kennel are not alike at all.

To be fair, some people abortion as involving another body, that of the kid.

[jomi822]

Originally Posted by CDB

To be fair, some people abortion as involving another body, that of the kid.

and to those people...a child and a dog are also not the same thing.