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Comment from Rugbymom
Time March 14, 2013 at 1:35 pm

Holis a former eagle said on WIP, a sports talk radio station that it wasn’t death threats really that cancelled his tours, it was POOR book sales. Death threats are just a cover up for the fact nobody wants to read a book by a liar, murderer and a sociopath

Comment from Janet
Time March 14, 2013 at 1:42 pm

Hope you ROT IN HELL,remember your maker is waiting for YOU, and the devil is rubbing his hands together. Come and visit Afric, we necklace people like you!!!!

Comment from cherie
Time March 14, 2013 at 6:26 pm

GET HIS UGLY FACE OFF MU FB PAGE…. HE’S A PIC OF PURE EVIL..

Comment from katrina
Time March 14, 2013 at 6:35 pm

Who the hell would even attend a book signing of such a wasteful heartless individual. This man should be in prison forever

Comment from Mary
Time March 15, 2013 at 12:28 am

Never Ever even think about a book signing. Your sick and you make me sick! Book! Seriously ! Didn’t you make enough money murdering defenseless dogs!!

Comment from jeff
Time March 15, 2013 at 1:13 am

I don’t think threats against him or his family is going to help any. I think they’re hot air, anyway.

Although what he did was deplorable, he did have his say in court, and he did his time.

We have far more people committing the same crime, getting caught, going to jail, getting out, and doing it all over again.

I do think Michael Vick won’t be doing any dogfighting ever again. He took a big knock on his reputation and pocketbook over his illegal and immoral activities. I don’t think he’s a problem any longer.

The thousands of other dirtbags out there doing this? Yeah, those people are the problem.

Comment from Miss Jan
Time March 15, 2013 at 12:13 pm

Responding to Jeff, you are just one of hundreds of thousands of people who erroneously think Vick did time for animal cruelty. He plea bargained out of all animal cruelty charges. He did minimal time in a “country club” prison for bankrolling an illegal activity and doing so across state lines. He has never expressed remorse for the cruelty. In fact, he has never expressed remorse for the crime he was actually convicted for. And finally he did not take a hit in the wallet because his professional thuggery has continued to earn him high power, fame and financial status in his chosen sport. The problem is that we have a weak, ineffective judicial system which allows criminals to negotiate out of very, very serious charges and avoid very, very serious punishment.

The fact remains that there is a large segment of this society that feeds on, celebrates and gets off on being cruel, abusive and murderous. To think for one minute that doing minimal time in a country club prison for one tenth of the crimes committed by the perp is going to change the criminal or act as a deterrent is just completely mistaken.

Comment from Judith Pannebaker
Time March 15, 2013 at 1:26 pm

For the record, Vick didn’t do any “time” for dogfighting or cruelty to animals. He was incarcerated for crossing state lines to gamble on dogfighting. The Commonwealth of Virginia, in its wisdom, decided not to prosecute him on the animal cruelty-dogfighting charges. So, he didn’t really “do his time” for the barbaric way he killed the “Little Red Dog.” Read Gorant’s book.

Comment from Miss Jan
Time March 16, 2013 at 11:57 am

Thank you Judith for speaking out about how Vick DID NOT do time for the worst of his crimes. I wish the media would be more accurate about reporting on this issue. Far too many people are in the dark about how many of the felony charges were either plea-bargained out or outright dismissed.

My own opinion is that Vick’s high profile career and vast fortune bought him the mere wrist slap that he finally did get.

And now his book reflects rather blatantly that he is not remorseful for what he did – the title implies that he feels he was wronged by having his “freedom” taken away. “Finally Free” – oh, pleez.

I have cornered the manager of the local Barnes and Noble and told them as long as they stock Vick’s book I will no longer be a customer – and I was, as I pointed out to the store mgr, a buyer with about a $1500 a year book budget.

Comment from jeff
Time March 17, 2013 at 1:47 am

Miss Jan and Judith Pannebaker.

I never said he did time for animal cruelty. Read my post again.

I at no point excused his behavior.

But he is just a small piece of a much larger problem.

Comment from Judith Pannebaker
Time March 18, 2013 at 12:21 pm

I’m sorry, Jeff, forgive me. When you wrote “Although what he did was deplorable, he did have his say in court, and he did his time,” I mistakenly assumed you were referring to the “deplorable” actions of electrocuting and beating dogs to death or the actual dog fighting itself. I had no idea the “deplorable” actions to which you referred were inter-state gambling. As I said before, Vick spent not one second in the slammer for animal cruelty or dog fighting. However, I stand corrected. Mea maxima culpa ….

Comment from Anne’n'Spencer
Time March 19, 2013 at 9:23 am

Jeff, there is a lot of good sense in what you say, but I don’t think you will find a very good reception for it. It is much easier to sit behind your keyboard and rant, rave, and fulminate than it is to take real, practical actions.

I despise Michael Vick and what he did. But I have to say, I also despise anyone who would make threats against his children, who had nothing to do with what went on. To me, that shows a mentality not that much better than that of the dogfighters. It’s also amazing to me that many of the fulminators have absolutely lost sight of the idea of redemption. They have perfected the concept of the unpardonable sin. The whole vast story of sin, suffering, and redemption is completely alien to them. Apparently any scripture or teaching of any of the world’s religions or great philosophies–any of them–is a closed book to them. I find them to be somewhat unworthy of their own dogs in this respect, since dogs must forgive and accept us every day of their lives, and they do so uncritically and unconditionally.

Whether Vick has managed to change himself is something I can’t speculate on. I would like to believe that he has, but I’m not wasting any time on it. There are too many people out there running too many dogfights right now, this minute, to waste energy looking back. Pit bull-type breeds are under threat here in Maryland. The Audubon Society is advocating that we poison cats with Tylenol. There is too much work to be done to waste time on hatred, and on that point you are exactly on target.

Comment from Jackson
Time April 19, 2013 at 8:37 am

Who the hell gives a shit what he has to say? Celebs kill me, publishing autobios they didn’t write. You know some ghost had to follow him around, interview him, take notes, and pretend it was remotely justifiable. That he’s been reprehensible with dogs just makes it worse, though most celeb bios are a crock. I don’t condone violence of any kind, but I might have threatened him also if he’d dared come to my neck of the woods with this trash. What’s he got to talk about? How he organized brutal dog fights. Oh wait, he was Touched as a child and that’s why he’s demented. Gimme a break.