Michael Vick

Almost two years in prison I guess isn't enough; it looks like we're determined to bankrupt Michael Vick as well. And then, if he's lucky, Vick gets to grovel to not go into state prison once he's landed in Virginia.

I wrote this a year and a half ago.

So Scooter Libby is convicted of obstruction of justice, two counts of perjury and one count of making false statements to federal investigators. In a case which dealt with the outing of a CIA officer which, in a world where such things matter and the rules can't be changed on a whim, is a breach of national security. You remember national security, right? The thing that is pounded on us every day and for which we as citizens are supposed to gladly hand over our civil liberties and Constitution for? Right, that's the one. So Libby plays a part in comprimising national security - yours, mine, ours - and, thanks to who his buddies are, spends....zero months in jail. Nada. Back at the country club by Monday.

And yet Michael Vick gets 2 years? Yes I realize that I'm a cold man who will rot in hell for not thinking the single worst thing you can do in this world is kill dogs. Yes, I think Vick should be punished. Harshly. But let's take this moment to remember that we're in the middle of a "war" where men are dying and being mutilated in the name of our own "national security" - yet the people who have compromised our security are hitting the links while Vick's sent away to a prison cell, his career over. Seems, in a word, whack to me. Out of kilter.

Hey, guess what Scooter Libby is doing today? Playing golf, awaiting reinstatement to the bar in 2012. Yet Michael Vick is fighting for his fucking life in prison, during which we're desperately trying to bankrupt him as well. Gee,
that's what you get for being an uppity, rich n---er!I wish I could figure this riddle out!

This, my friends, is fucking embarrassing.