Michael Vick,
You say you have “found Jesus”. This statement is a bit premature. Usually your type finds Jesus AFTER they have been sitting in a jail cell. I suspect your timing is a feeble attempt to use Jesus as your get out of jail free card.
Before I am accused of racial profiling by using the term “your type”, let me clarify that statement — I simply mean to imply that you are nothing more than a common thug. Thugs come in many shapes and colors; sometimes they even masquerade as football players.
You’re not the only one who has had a religious awakening. I’ve had one too. As a matter of fact I had a vision in which Jesus spoke to me. He said” Tell Michael to liquidate all his assets and donate the money to animal resuce organizations”
You say you have to redeem yourself — Here’s you chance.

The above is a photo of Beauty. She spent most of her first two years of life locked in a crate in a bathroom. Beauty came to live with us on January 26, 2007.

Which is not to say that any expressions of remorse or even outward evidence of remorse should lessen the punishment he deserves. But if he cooperates fully with the feds, serves his time, quietly rebuilds his life, and uses his notoriety and money to do good–yes, he can redeem himself as a person.

It will take years and years of actions, not words or promises. I don’t know if he is a person who is capable of such change–I hope he is. He’ll have to overcome the justified cynicism of the people who now revile him. He’s shown himself to be not only a dog killer, but a liar. He has to prove his sincerity, and it’s not going to be possible if he’s just going through the motions to polish up his tarnished image. He has to really want to change and prove over time that he has changed.

I have indeed been advocating all along that Vick himself go into the ghettos on anti-dogfighting campaign, using empirical experience and celebrity [fallen] to attract an audience. Check out “Lynn says: September 4th, 2007 at 6:13 pm.” I thought I was fairly clear about this is my several posts within this thread. Why would I care for him to mentor kids regarding issues other than dog-fighting?

True, no one’s seen Vick come forth to do any anti-dogfighting mentoring. And of course he would be stupid to physically put himself in such a position at this time [lest he be charged with further crimes].

Until this point, you didn’t state that you were referring to Vick speaking to kids re: dogfighting. On that point, I do agree with you, but with regard his being with these kids without addressing dogfighting, he is certainly not anybody one should model their life after.

He’s well qualified to tell them what they should NOT be involved in, but I’ve yet to see that Vick himself was doing any anti-dogfighting “mentoring”.