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Your Weekly Vick

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October 2, 2007 |

PETAMichael Vick refuses to let me not write about him on this blog. 

He’s in the news now because PETA claims that Vick accepted an invitation to attend an 8-hour course on animal cruelty at the group’s Virginia headquarters.  According to ESPN: 

PETA assistant director Dan Shannon said when Vick completed the course, he was given material to take home and study. Shannon said Vick returned to the offices on a later day to take a test on the things he’d learned, which he passed. Though PETA officials are still pressing for jail time for Vick, Shannon did say everyone was impressed with the seriousness with which Vick approached his classes.

“He seemed nervous at first,” Shannon said, “but he seemed really interested.”

Vick’s attorneys were not immediately available to comment on PETA’s account of Vick’s attending the class. The NFL also did not immediately return a call for comment.

I’m not really sure what purpose this served, other than to further humiliate Vick. I suppose it’s not enough for PETA that Vick go to jail (notice that their position on pushing for extra jail time hasn’t changed since the course), but they have to indoctrinate him too.

Don’t get me wrong; I think Vick should go to jail too. And I guess if Vick was sincere about the course, as he reportedly was, and if he truly learned something, then that’s a good thing. But this has the feel to me of somebody going to meet with Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson because they used the N word. I’m not so sure that a couple of individuals or a group like PETA ought to be the ultimate arbiter of whether somebody has redeemed themselves.


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