Stop Flogging Michael Vick

"We are confronted with a new challenge now that Vick has served nearly two years of time in a federal penitentiary and seen his personal assets liquidated. He’s served his sentence, and now he’s made a person to The HSUS to involve him in anti-dogfighting and anti-cruelty efforts. Will we continue to flog Michael Vick indefinitely, or will we take advantage of his expressed desire to do better, to be an agent of change for animals?" –Wayne Parcell, CEO, Humane Society If The Humane Society's chief executive officer can forgive Michael Vick, so should the rest of us. Then again, who are we to do the forgiving? Are we not sinners ourselves? "We at The HSUS are about change, even the hard cases," Parcell stated on his Humane Society Web site. "Sitting with Michael at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary, I saw a man who, if he had the resolve, could do powerful and persuasive outreach to at-risk youth and steer them away from dogfi...