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Tomorrow could be a turning point in the Michael Vick saga.  One of his codefendants is preparing to enter a plea deal and will likely turn on Michael Vick.  Many people suspect that the co-defendant will testify against Vick and implicate him in a way that confirms indictment.  That's all speculation based on the fact that the modus operandi for the federal government is to turn a low level person against a high level person.  It's kind of like fishing for catfish with minnows.

In this case the counter phishing for his Michael Vick.  I do want to see justice carried out in this situation, however this is one of those deals where nothing will ever be right once things are wrapped up here.  The dogs will still be dead and many people will be harmed as a result of what happened on that property in Virginia.  There really isn't anything that can be done to make the situation right.

The only hope that we have is that we can avoid this type of situation in the future, and that is part of the reason why I have been working on the campaign at SackVick.net.  The thing is, the lesson has to be taught and learned right away while it's still fresh in the public eye.  It won't do any good for people to look back on this situation years from now and try and learn a lesson from it.  The opportunity will be long gone at that time.

This is not one of those lessons were you can take a picture of it and run it through a digital frame slideshow and have a regular reminder of why it's bad for dogfighting to be allowed to take place.  This is one of those lessons that has to be learned in a way that penetrates through very deeply and usurps the culture that would typically allow it or encourage it.  It's not just a culture shock it's a culture rewrite.

There is an entire culture, even though its fractional a subculture that believes it's okay for people to raise dogs for fighting.  This concept is not new and goes back hundreds if not thousands of years.  Society has learned to reduce and start to eliminate this type of thing but we still have a long way to go.  So as I look for justice I don't just look for Michael Vick to walk to the legal process and spent a couple years in jail or on probation.  Now I'm looking for a bigger example of Vick and all of the companies and organizations that supported him and encouraged him in his bad boy behavior.

I find Michael Vick responsible and I find all of the organizations behind Michael Vick equally responsible.  There was a lot of money riding on this thing and the Falcons and the NFL and even Nike could've done a little bit more due diligence to find out what Michael Vick was really doing in his private life.  He was set to earn several hundred million dollars, I believe 130 million from the NFL and almost an equal amount from other sponsors.  Someone go spend $50,000 to hire a private investigator to figure out what was going on and do something to stop it much much earlier.