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	<title>Comments on: The folks at Bad Rap speak out about Michael Vick&#8217;s release from prison and future plans</title>
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		<title>By: The OTHER Pat</title>
		<link>http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2009/05/22/the-folks-at-bad-rap-speak-out/comment-page-1/#comment-470592</link>
		<dc:creator>The OTHER Pat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>http://www.ajc.com/sports/nflpa-vick-met-with-union-leader-on-tuesday-98172.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab</description>
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		<title>By: Nicole W</title>
		<link>http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2009/05/22/the-folks-at-bad-rap-speak-out/comment-page-1/#comment-449898</link>
		<dc:creator>Nicole W</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 15:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Does Michael Vick Deserve a second chance?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjostWvg9tU

Vicktory to the Underdog
http://strangleholdmerch.com/vicktory-to-the-underdog-p-191.html

&quot;Vicktory To The Underdog&quot; takes an in depth look at world renowned tattoo artist &quot;Brandon Bond&quot; and his dog rescue efforts - particularly rescuing the infamous Michael Vick fighting dogs.
Rather than focusing on the dog fighting problem, the movie sheds light on solutions leading to &quot;Vicktory&quot; for all the underdogs in the movie - tattoo people, pitbulls, parolees and all the other people in this world that society has turned their back on through ignorance and racism.
The movie also examines the life of Brandon Bond and his struggle with balancing fame, fortune and the Rock-N-Roll tattoo lifestyle with a more fulfilling life that focuses on the betterment of both animals and society as a whole.
Featuring celebrities like Debbie and Danny Trejo, Michael Berryman, Pixie Acia and Donal Logue, the movie takes you on an incredible journey you will never forget!

Proceeds for this film will be going to Villa Lobos Pitbull Rescue. http://www.vrcpitbull.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Does Michael Vick Deserve a second chance?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjostWvg9tU" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjostWvg9tU</a></p>
<p>Vicktory to the Underdog<br />
<a href="http://strangleholdmerch.com/vicktory-to-the-underdog-p-191.html" rel="nofollow">http://strangleholdmerch.com/v.....p-191.html</a></p>
<p>&#8220;Vicktory To The Underdog&#8221; takes an in depth look at world renowned tattoo artist &#8220;Brandon Bond&#8221; and his dog rescue efforts - particularly rescuing the infamous Michael Vick fighting dogs.<br />
Rather than focusing on the dog fighting problem, the movie sheds light on solutions leading to &#8220;Vicktory&#8221; for all the underdogs in the movie - tattoo people, pitbulls, parolees and all the other people in this world that society has turned their back on through ignorance and racism.<br />
The movie also examines the life of Brandon Bond and his struggle with balancing fame, fortune and the Rock-N-Roll tattoo lifestyle with a more fulfilling life that focuses on the betterment of both animals and society as a whole.<br />
Featuring celebrities like Debbie and Danny Trejo, Michael Berryman, Pixie Acia and Donal Logue, the movie takes you on an incredible journey you will never forget!</p>
<p>Proceeds for this film will be going to Villa Lobos Pitbull Rescue. <a href="http://www.vrcpitbull.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.vrcpitbull.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: Colorado Transplant</title>
		<link>http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2009/05/22/the-folks-at-bad-rap-speak-out/comment-page-1/#comment-448542</link>
		<dc:creator>Colorado Transplant</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 01:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I signed the petition--it is the least that I can do--better than zero.

Why, oh why, do we have two forms of justice.

One for the rich, famous, or both.
One for ordinary citizens like me.

Vick, if you done bad, ya shouldn&#039;t become a hero to the young ones  by being let back into the game and winning some games--just sayin&#039;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I signed the petition&#8212;it is the least that I can do&#8212;better than zero.</p>
<p>Why, oh why, do we have two forms of justice.</p>
<p>One for the rich, famous, or both.<br />
One for ordinary citizens like me.</p>
<p>Vick, if you done bad, ya shouldn&#8217;t become a hero to the young ones  by being let back into the game and winning some games&#8212;just sayin&#8217;.</p>
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		<title>By: Jack Lani</title>
		<link>http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2009/05/22/the-folks-at-bad-rap-speak-out/comment-page-1/#comment-448480</link>
		<dc:creator>Jack Lani</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 22:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In the 20&#039;s and 30&#039;s the &quot;in&quot; group to join for governors, politicians on the take, societal matrons, doctors, lawyers, and the societal elits --  was the Klu Klux Klan.   Although nearly a century&#039;s passed, human nature and behavior haven&#039;t changed a whit.   The same unstable personality type of hating folk find their identity in HSUS and related groups.  What these self anointed would be gods sitting injudgment share is no true love of animals .  The glue that cements them together is that, instead,  of basest sheer &quot;mob mentality&quot; hatred of their fellow human beings. Michael Vick was tried and served his sentence.   Whatever further is said of him is &quot;old news&quot; replayed in an endless loop for its mob mentality crazifying propagandizing purposes.  Further attention to or comments about Vick say nothing about Vick as an individual.   They do, however reflect absense of any character whatsoever in those who&#039;d make their livelong avocation Vick&#039;s perpetual persecution.   How much better off we&#039;d be as a society if we went after real animal terrorists such as groups like HSUS whose verbalized agenda is to permanently exterminate all pets and all domestic animals off the face of the earth!  This is a good lesson in not underestimating the presence and massive volume of outight human stupidity.  It&#039;s clearly illustrated by thse who consider Vick a millionth as dangerous to the continued existance of domestic animals as is HSUS.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the 20&#8217;s and 30&#8217;s the &#8220;in&#8221; group to join for governors, politicians on the take, societal matrons, doctors, lawyers, and the societal elits &#8212;  was the Klu Klux Klan.   Although nearly a century&#8217;s passed, human nature and behavior haven&#8217;t changed a whit.   The same unstable personality type of hating folk find their identity in HSUS and related groups.  What these self anointed would be gods sitting injudgment share is no true love of animals .  The glue that cements them together is that, instead,  of basest sheer &#8220;mob mentality&#8221; hatred of their fellow human beings. Michael Vick was tried and served his sentence.   Whatever further is said of him is &#8220;old news&#8221; replayed in an endless loop for its mob mentality crazifying propagandizing purposes.  Further attention to or comments about Vick say nothing about Vick as an individual.   They do, however reflect absense of any character whatsoever in those who&#8217;d make their livelong avocation Vick&#8217;s perpetual persecution.   How much better off we&#8217;d be as a society if we went after real animal terrorists such as groups like HSUS whose verbalized agenda is to permanently exterminate all pets and all domestic animals off the face of the earth!  This is a good lesson in not underestimating the presence and massive volume of outight human stupidity.  It&#8217;s clearly illustrated by thse who consider Vick a millionth as dangerous to the continued existance of domestic animals as is HSUS.</p>
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		<title>By: SusanS</title>
		<link>http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2009/05/22/the-folks-at-bad-rap-speak-out/comment-page-1/#comment-448447</link>
		<dc:creator>SusanS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 21:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There&#039;s a stop-Vick petition you can sign:

http://www.isaronline.org/petition_form.html

Whereas, Michael Vick pleaded guilty to participating in a dog-fighting ring which caused the abuse and death of canine companion animals, and
 
Whereas, Michael Vick was sentenced to federal prison, and
 
Whereas, Michael Vick is now a convicted felon, and
 
Whereas, no matter how much celebrity Michael Vick may have acquired as a professional football player, he is now well known as a criminal and immoral abuser of dogs, and
 
Whereas, because of his criminal conduct and immoral behavior Michael Vick should be shunned by decent people and no reputable individual, company or other organization should in any manner benefit him, and
 
Whereas, any individual, company or other organization that does in any manner benefit Michael Vick will be boycotted by the signers of this Petition, 
 
Now, therefore, we the undersigned hereby petition every individual, company and organization throughout the world not to benefit Michael Vick in any manner whatsoever.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s a stop-Vick petition you can sign:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.isaronline.org/petition_form.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.isaronline.org/petition_form.html</a></p>
<p>Whereas, Michael Vick pleaded guilty to participating in a dog-fighting ring which caused the abuse and death of canine companion animals, and</p>
<p>Whereas, Michael Vick was sentenced to federal prison, and</p>
<p>Whereas, Michael Vick is now a convicted felon, and</p>
<p>Whereas, no matter how much celebrity Michael Vick may have acquired as a professional football player, he is now well known as a criminal and immoral abuser of dogs, and</p>
<p>Whereas, because of his criminal conduct and immoral behavior Michael Vick should be shunned by decent people and no reputable individual, company or other organization should in any manner benefit him, and</p>
<p>Whereas, any individual, company or other organization that does in any manner benefit Michael Vick will be boycotted by the signers of this Petition, </p>
<p>Now, therefore, we the undersigned hereby petition every individual, company and organization throughout the world not to benefit Michael Vick in any manner whatsoever.</p>
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		<title>By: SusanS</title>
		<link>http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2009/05/22/the-folks-at-bad-rap-speak-out/comment-page-1/#comment-448444</link>
		<dc:creator>SusanS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 21:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The only ones who have any right to forgive Vick are the dogs he hurt and killed. And the dead ones obviously don&#039;t have that option anymore. If you were beaten half to death and your neighbor announced that he forgave your assailant for nearly killing you, how would you respond? Only the one who was harmed has the right to forgive.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The only ones who have any right to forgive Vick are the dogs he hurt and killed. And the dead ones obviously don&#8217;t have that option anymore. If you were beaten half to death and your neighbor announced that he forgave your assailant for nearly killing you, how would you respond? Only the one who was harmed has the right to forgive.</p>
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		<title>By: straybaby</title>
		<link>http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2009/05/22/the-folks-at-bad-rap-speak-out/comment-page-1/#comment-448432</link>
		<dc:creator>straybaby</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 20:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>CT, seems to me we have a bit of a problem with our criminal justice system. As long as these actions are &quot;alleged&quot;, they are innocent of the charges. Anyone who beats wife/girlfriend/partner, abuses animals etc, should be tried in a court of law and locked up if guilty. What we need after that is for the leagues to start looking at these individuals after they have done their time and make some smart decisions. Some very well may be fit to come back, but they should have to earn their status back. I think the stripping of endorsements is also key, because those usually bring in more than salaries. Those would need to be earned also.

I&#039;m sure there&#039;s some neanderthal sports fans that want Vick back, but I have a feeling, they aren&#039;t the majority. Has Vick even been punished by the league yet? A 2 yr suspension would put him out of play, a one yr one might even. I personally don&#039;t think he should get either. I think he should be banned permanently.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CT, seems to me we have a bit of a problem with our criminal justice system. As long as these actions are &#8220;alleged&#8221;, they are innocent of the charges. Anyone who beats wife/girlfriend/partner, abuses animals etc, should be tried in a court of law and locked up if guilty. What we need after that is for the leagues to start looking at these individuals after they have done their time and make some smart decisions. Some very well may be fit to come back, but they should have to earn their status back. I think the stripping of endorsements is also key, because those usually bring in more than salaries. Those would need to be earned also.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s some neanderthal sports fans that want Vick back, but I have a feeling, they aren&#8217;t the majority. Has Vick even been punished by the league yet? A 2 yr suspension would put him out of play, a one yr one might even. I personally don&#8217;t think he should get either. I think he should be banned permanently.</p>
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		<title>By: SusanS</title>
		<link>http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2009/05/22/the-folks-at-bad-rap-speak-out/comment-page-1/#comment-448426</link>
		<dc:creator>SusanS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 20:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Remember also that Vick killed dogs by hanging them to death, and by throwing them off the roof to be smashed and broken. The HSUS ninnies do not understand that there is such a thing as genuine evil in this world, and that Vick is truly evil. Vick must be laughing now about how easy it was to fool the HSUS idiots into thinking he was just a simple homeboy who liked to watch the dogs fight because he misunderstood and thought the dogs liked it. And now the HSUS has helped him complete step 1 on his path to making millions playing football again. I wonder if Vick paid them a bundle (a &quot;donation,&quot; of course) to forget what he did and help him out.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Remember also that Vick killed dogs by hanging them to death, and by throwing them off the roof to be smashed and broken. The HSUS ninnies do not understand that there is such a thing as genuine evil in this world, and that Vick is truly evil. Vick must be laughing now about how easy it was to fool the HSUS idiots into thinking he was just a simple homeboy who liked to watch the dogs fight because he misunderstood and thought the dogs liked it. And now the HSUS has helped him complete step 1 on his path to making millions playing football again. I wonder if Vick paid them a bundle (a &#8220;donation,&#8221; of course) to forget what he did and help him out.</p>
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		<title>By: Colorado Transplant</title>
		<link>http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2009/05/22/the-folks-at-bad-rap-speak-out/comment-page-1/#comment-448400</link>
		<dc:creator>Colorado Transplant</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 19:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you are a prominent sport&#039;s figure you can

l. Beat your wife or girlfriend

2. Be cruel to animals

3. Take body enhancing drugs

4. Be forgiven

5. Go back and make money for the team 

I have seen it happen time and time again.  It doesn&#039;t surprise me any more.  I just expect it to happen.  However, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it.  Enough said!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are a prominent sport&#8217;s figure you can</p>
<p>l. Beat your wife or girlfriend</p>
<p>2. Be cruel to animals</p>
<p>3. Take body enhancing drugs</p>
<p>4. Be forgiven</p>
<p>5. Go back and make money for the team </p>
<p>I have seen it happen time and time again.  It doesn&#8217;t surprise me any more.  I just expect it to happen.  However, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it.  Enough said!</p>
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		<title>By: C.L.H.</title>
		<link>http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2009/05/22/the-folks-at-bad-rap-speak-out/comment-page-1/#comment-448360</link>
		<dc:creator>C.L.H.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 16:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Asking Michael Vick to do a public service announcement on animal cruelty is like asking Charles Manson to do a public service announcement on bats@#t insanity.  It just makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. I hope the HSUS figures that out.  I believe in redemption and forgiveness.  I also believe in consequences for our actions.  Michael Vick hasn&#039;t paid his debt to those dogs.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Asking Michael Vick to do a public service announcement on animal cruelty is like asking Charles Manson to do a public service announcement on <a href="mailto:bats@#t">bats@#t</a> insanity.  It just makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. I hope the HSUS figures that out.  I believe in redemption and forgiveness.  I also believe in consequences for our actions.  Michael Vick hasn&#8217;t paid his debt to those dogs.</p>
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