PETA Aids & Abets Michael Vick's "Rehabilitation"
PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk has sent out an email on October 2, 2007, below.
Maybe for an encore they could do a seance for Hitler, and then invite Bu$h, Cheney, and Charles Manson, to come in for a group hug?
How convenient that Michael Vick, less than 3 months prior to sentencing, has come to PETA for enlightenment and to document his remorse for the sentencing Judge. While the Federal Prosecutor may have rolled over on this one, perhaps the sentencing Judge's moral compass is intact, with no consideration of the costs to the NFL should Vick be incarcerated.
One has to wonder how the Vick case would have been handled under Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, who was fond of bringing his Newfoundland Brumus with him to work.
Perhaps someone with PETA as deeply disgusted as I will reveal what "interesting" donations have flowed into PETA's coffers around the time of Michael Vick's search for a good P.R. stunt, er, "empathy".
The stench from the PETA-Vick tango is further exacerbated by PETA President Newkirk's advocacy of pit bull genocide.
For those who protest that Michael Vick was merely "facilitating": Would that soft peddling likewise apply were Vick "facilitating" child pornography? Snuff" films? The manufacture of Zyklon B in the 1940's? Perhaps a reading of the actual Statement Of Facts that Vick signed will take the gloss off the spin.
Yes, there will come a time when Michael Vick may truly seek redemption. But first, let him do a few years in prison, let him pick up several dozen bars of soap, encounter some shanks--Let him have a taste of the complete and utter barbarity he intentionally and maliciously, for years, unleashed on so many.
TLC
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Following news of his guilty plea, I contacted Michael Vick suggesting that he hear—for the first time in his life, he confirmed—about animal protection issues, learn how animals feel joy and pain and deserve respect, and receive specific instruction on what to say to young people whom he has influenced in the worst possible ways.
In mid-September, Michael Vick visited PETA's headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, to meet with me privately. I told him that PETA advocates an end to all exploitation and needless violence based on prejudice, including the prejudice against other species, and that we believe that he should equip himself with information and materials in order to be able to live up to his responsibility to counsel children not to engage in cruelty to animals. 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." I also explained that even if he took our basic empathy course, our position that he should serve jail time and have a lifetime ban on contact with animals would nevertheless remain unchanged, and he accepted that.
Two weeks ago, Michael Vick returned to PETA to take the "Developing Empathy for Animals" course, an all-day seminar on "who animals are," alternatives to cruelty, animal protection philosophy, and humane education, which PETA has now excerpted online. We believe that this course should be adopted by the NFL for all players to take in order to give them a chance to learn empathy, compassion, and nonviolence. Two days after the seminar, Vick came back to PETA's office to take the course exam.
PETA's course teaches the Golden Rule—treat others as you wish to be treated. Only time will tell whether Michael Vick has benefited from what he has learned, but he has pledged to use this knowledge to urge kids not to follow in his footsteps and to be kind to animals. Meanwhile, we are urging the NFL to take the important step of requiring that every player do what Michael Vick has done and take the course in order to help prevent future acts of violence against animals and to equip players with information about respecting animals that they can share with their young fans.
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-mail messages 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 handled Vick's high-profile case. To that end, please join PETA and ask the NFL to require that all its players, some of whom have been involved in a series of cruelty-to-animals cases, attend PETA's "Developing Empathy for Animals" course.
Thank you for helping us do all that we can to make the world a better place for animals.
Yours truly,
Ingrid E. Newkirk
President
Maybe for an encore they could do a seance for Hitler, and then invite Bu$h, Cheney, and Charles Manson, to come in for a group hug?
How convenient that Michael Vick, less than 3 months prior to sentencing, has come to PETA for enlightenment and to document his remorse for the sentencing Judge. While the Federal Prosecutor may have rolled over on this one, perhaps the sentencing Judge's moral compass is intact, with no consideration of the costs to the NFL should Vick be incarcerated.
One has to wonder how the Vick case would have been handled under Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, who was fond of bringing his Newfoundland Brumus with him to work.
Perhaps someone with PETA as deeply disgusted as I will reveal what "interesting" donations have flowed into PETA's coffers around the time of Michael Vick's search for a good P.R. stunt, er, "empathy".
The stench from the PETA-Vick tango is further exacerbated by PETA President Newkirk's advocacy of pit bull genocide.
For those who protest that Michael Vick was merely "facilitating": Would that soft peddling likewise apply were Vick "facilitating" child pornography? Snuff" films? The manufacture of Zyklon B in the 1940's? Perhaps a reading of the actual Statement Of Facts that Vick signed will take the gloss off the spin.
Yes, there will come a time when Michael Vick may truly seek redemption. But first, let him do a few years in prison, let him pick up several dozen bars of soap, encounter some shanks--Let him have a taste of the complete and utter barbarity he intentionally and maliciously, for years, unleashed on so many.
TLC
___________________________________
Following news of his guilty plea, I contacted Michael Vick suggesting that he hear—for the first time in his life, he confirmed—about animal protection issues, learn how animals feel joy and pain and deserve respect, and receive specific instruction on what to say to young people whom he has influenced in the worst possible ways.
In mid-September, Michael Vick visited PETA's headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, to meet with me privately. I told him that PETA advocates an end to all exploitation and needless violence based on prejudice, including the prejudice against other species, and that we believe that he should equip himself with information and materials in order to be able to live up to his responsibility to counsel children not to engage in cruelty to animals. 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." I also explained that even if he took our basic empathy course, our position that he should serve jail time and have a lifetime ban on contact with animals would nevertheless remain unchanged, and he accepted that.
Two weeks ago, Michael Vick returned to PETA to take the "Developing Empathy for Animals" course, an all-day seminar on "who animals are," alternatives to cruelty, animal protection philosophy, and humane education, which PETA has now excerpted online. We believe that this course should be adopted by the NFL for all players to take in order to give them a chance to learn empathy, compassion, and nonviolence. Two days after the seminar, Vick came back to PETA's office to take the course exam.
PETA's course teaches the Golden Rule—treat others as you wish to be treated. Only time will tell whether Michael Vick has benefited from what he has learned, but he has pledged to use this knowledge to urge kids not to follow in his footsteps and to be kind to animals. Meanwhile, we are urging the NFL to take the important step of requiring that every player do what Michael Vick has done and take the course in order to help prevent future acts of violence against animals and to equip players with information about respecting animals that they can share with their young fans.
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-mail messages 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 handled Vick's high-profile case. To that end, please join PETA and ask the NFL to require that all its players, some of whom have been involved in a series of cruelty-to-animals cases, attend PETA's "Developing Empathy for Animals" course.
Thank you for helping us do all that we can to make the world a better place for animals.
Yours truly,
Ingrid E. Newkirk
President
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