NAACP thinks Deer Hunting = Dog Fighting (Michael Vick Related)

[ky_man]

The head of the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP said Wednesday that Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick has made mistakes but that they should not cost him his football career with the NFL.

White also said he didn't understand the uproar over dogfighting, when hunting deer and other animals is perfectly acceptable.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/08/22/vick/index.html

This NAACP guy gets my vote for 'most ignorant media whore of the year'. I guess the NAACP guy means that all hunters electrocute, drown and set fire to their kill.

Let this <guy> know how you feel: [email protected]

My letter:

Dear Sir,

You have made a gross error in judgment by being quoted as saying, "[you] didn't understand the uproar over dogfighting, when hunting deer and other animals is perfectly acceptable." By stating what you did, you lost any credibility for the NAACP in my eyes.

You see, there's a bit of a difference over legal hunting, and pitting two dogs in an illegal fight. The two are in no way related.

How dare you make the assumption that the humane and necessary killing of deer is in any way related to the ghoulish mistreatment of dogs at Vick's "compound". When myelf and my fellow hunters kill a deer, we do so for food or charity. We DO NOT practice drowning, hanging and electrocution if the deer doesn't cooperate with us.

Last time I checked, premeditated murder of a human combined with brutality would either give you a) life in prison b) death sentence. Similar treatment of a dog is also condemned harshly. The NAACP is apparently so focused on saving Vick's <----> that they totally lost touch with the rest of the country. We are a society of animal lovers and will not abide this kind of behavior from anyone including your precious Mr. Vick.

You are also a hypocrite: As if Michael Vick should be given a second chance with his career for torturing and killing dogs, while Don Imus should be kicked out of radio indefinitely for saying something stupid?

Sir, you disappoint me. If you play the race card when race isn't a factor, you're the racist.

Sincerely,

ky_man

 

[ArmedBear]

Burning deer alive would land you in jail just the same as doing it to a dog.

The NAACP should be careful about defending everything that someone does, just because he has a certain ethnicity. Perhaps they might even decry a situation where a black man has one of the highest incomes in America today, and then uses it for such a purpose. Do they not recognize the value of keeping the moral high ground? Or are they so immersed in political correctness that they don't know what "moral high ground" means any more?

 

[ky_man]

How am I supposed to read his statement?

Maybe I'm misinterpreting his use of a simple figure of speech, but
generally, when someone says that "A is no better than B", they mean
that both of them are no good.

But, if A=B then B must equal A. Apparently he thinks that because deer
hunting is acceptable, dogfighting must also be too.

Also, at least one NBA player appears willing to risk present and future endorsement deals like those that Michael Vick lost after charges against him for dog-fighting surfaced. New York Knicks guard Stephon Marbury compares dog-fighting to hunting and says Vick, who faces up to five years in prison on federal charges pending an expected guilty plea, should be allowed to play in the NFL again.

“I think it’s tough,” Marbury says. “I think, you know, we don’t say anything about people who shoot deer or shoot other animals. You know, from what I hear, dog-fighting is a sport. It’s just behind closed doors. I think it’s tough that we build Michael Vick up, and then we break him down.

 

[buzz_knox]

Do they not recognize the value of keeping the moral high ground? Or are they so immersed in political correctness that they don't know what "moral high ground" means any more?

They aren't interested in the moral high ground. They want the high ground, period.

 

[Kimber1911_06238]

he's forgetting that there is a huge difference. Deer hunting is legal, dog fighting is not. Hunting provides population control and food. Dog fighting is strictly for money and entertainment. The goal of hunting is to harvest the animal with as little pain and suffering as possible. Dog fighting is all about inflicting pain and suffering and ultimately death. And that's not even mentioning torturing and killing dogs that lose or are deemed not tough enough to win.

Seems like an ignorant person comparing apples to oranges.

 

[ArmedBear]

They aren't interested in the moral high ground. They want the high ground, period.

But even the most partisan Democrats (like the most partisan Republicans) value some sense of morality, generally, in their politics. This isn't just about alienating the half of the country that the NAACP has already apparently written off by becoming a Democratic Party campaign organization. This could alienate much of the rest.

 

[MCgunner]

It's an agenda, it's a color thing, plain and simple. They are a racist organization with a racist agenda not unlike the Ku Klux Klan. Nuff said. They don't frankly care anything about animals OR the truth.

Lost in all this is the betting, for which he should certainly be banned from football, too! Yeah, it was betting on dogs, not games, but betting illegally never-the-less. Add that to torturing animals and how does Vick deserve a break that the law would never give ME????

Morons......

 

[buzz_knox]

This could alienate much of the rest.

They already think they've alienated the rest. They just don't care. They've got the power base they pander to, and the politicians who pander to them. The rest of the country can jump in a lake as far as they are concerned. They've got control of one side of one of the most divisive issues in this country's history as the politicians and media pander to them as the sole, legitimate representatives of an entire ethnicity, and they can and do work that for all it's worth.

But even the most partisan Democrats (like the most partisan Republicans) value some sense of morality, generally, in their politics./QUOTE]

The most partisan politicians of either side could care less about morality. The media makes that point about Karl Rove constantly, and Ted Kennedy certainly didn't care about morality when he offered to work with the Sovs against Reagan.

 

[MCgunner]

and Ted Kennedy certainly didn't care about morality when he offered to work with the Sovs against Reagan.

Or drove Mary Jo Kopechne off the Chappaquiddick bridge. Ore how about stashing $90K of bribe money in your freezer while you RAIL at the other side for their corrupt moral charactor? Or, how about having hookers diaper you for your pleasures? Or, how about, well, the news has been full of corruption over the years, never ends.

 

[ArmedBear]

The media makes that point about Karl Rove constantly

I have a hard time figuring out what, exactly, he has done wrong, other than be a Republican political strategist when the MSM is 90% Democrat. "Dislike" and "immoral" are different things.

Randy "Duke" Cunningham and William "The Freezer" Jefferson, that's what I'd call immoral.

 

[buzz_knox]

Those would definitely be candidates for examples "having no morals (or at least, no ethics) makes one a good politician."

 

[MCgunner]

ONE GREAT one I absolutely love is electing a mayor who gets caught in a cocaine sting, goes to prison, gets out and is RE-ELECTED as mayor! Is that the first felon to hold office? As a felon, he can't even legally vote! Only in DC, I guess....

 

[JJE]

When's the last time the NAACP was right about anything?

 

[Neophyte1]

ky-man: Sir; how can we giggle on paper or in print.
Ignorant, stupid, uninformed, unintelligent, excuse making what-evers.
Lordy Lordy; what have we here.
Makes me sick.
Vick is what he is; he made the decisions, and now must live with his action.
$130,000 million plus down the drain.
Do you not believe the NCCAAPP are not aware that a man of Color could possible do wrong.
Crud; he has Millions of Dollars; DO WRONG.
WHAT COULD YOU POSSIBLE DO TO A MAN THAT HAS Millions of dollars.
Ignorant Gun toten, hunters, targeters, re loaders, CCW, got sense enough to acquire the permits, license, and test for our sport. Got sense enough to follow the Law,
I'm done.

Hang on a minuet: Wonder how Mister $130,000 dollars will enjoy the Iron Bar Hotel.

Makes me Sick

 

[CSA 357]

when has the naacp ever said any thing that was senseable? if you done wrong i dont care if your black or white or green, your wrong, if vick was white they would have never backed him, i dont care if he ever looks at a football again ! but to put me and other lawfull hunters in the same cattagory with him thats just plain bs!

 

[Andrewsky]

Funny, the last time I killed deer I remember killing them legally and humanely for food. My memory's a little fuzzy but I don't recall illegally torturing and executing them for fun and profit.

 

[ArmedBear]

I don't recall illegally torturing and executing them for fun and profit.

One might sympathize with someone who runs a dogfighting operation because he's poor and he's found dogfighting to be lucrative -- though deliberate torture of animals is another thing entirely.

But Michael Vick was in no need of cash. And he had an outlet for his competitive drive, too. Just a little...

 

[Troutman]

Competitive drive…..That’s what it is. Guy has more rushing yards, not only at that position, QB, also than rushing backs.
The guy plays (at times) like a one man team.

Need to say more. He agent should had a talk with him. Instead, of buttering up to him.

 

[Nathanael_Greene]

Today, I had a venison burger made from a deer I shot last season.

How many dogburgers do you think Michael Vick has eaten?

(But look at the bright side--at least Vick wasn't coaching a Little League team! "Kid, you've dropped your last fly ball!" *zzzzt*)

 

[KiltedClaymore]

last animal i shot (angry dimondback), i never tortured it. how does he make this connection? deer hunting or ANY kind of hunting is completly irrelevent to dog fighting! maybe its just me, but im of the oppinion that animal abusers should be treated as they treated their animals.

 

[Art Eatman]

Okay, okay. This isn't about hunting, it's about politics and money and all that non-hunting stuff...

Art