{"id":215,"date":"2007-08-24T11:12:53","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T16:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/08\/24\/1187971973375.html"},"modified":"2007-08-24T11:12:53","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T16:12:53","slug":"blogentry-michael-vick-admits-to-just-about-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] Michael Vick Admits To Just About Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was hoping that he would have taken a bit more of a beating, but check out what <a href=&#034;http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/US\/law\/08\/24\/michael.vick\/index.html#cnnSTCText&#034;>Michael Vick, dog torturer, has pled to<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#034;one count&#034; of conspiracy to travel across interstate lines for the purpose of doing the dog fighting thing.  One count.  yeah, that&#039;s believable.  &#034;I did it once.&#034;\n<li>&#034;I owned the property, but I did not bet on the fights nor did I make any money.&#034;  Yeah, I just let people torture dogs on my property out of the goodness of my heart, there was no monetary compensation in it for me.  I just like watching animals suffer, it&#039;s how I get off.\n<li>&#034;Through the collective efforts of everyone involved&#034;, dogs died.  So, you know, he doesn&#039;t have to be documented as saying &#034;I personally killed the weak ones.&#034;  If you think about that one, it&#039;s even better &#8212; he had no monetary stake in the betting, and yet he still admits to killing the weaker animals?  Why, exactly?  What was his motivation there?\n<\/ul>\n<p\/>None of that is shocking.  It is, after all, a plea deal.  What is shocking is that the prosecutors are going to agree to the minimum penalty.  I think their reaction should have been more along the lines of &#034;No, seriously.  What are you really going to admit to?&#034;<\/p>\n<p\/>Part of the penalty he might face includes &#034;full restitution.&#034;  What exactly does that mean?  How do you unkill dogs?  Who do you pay restitution to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was hoping that he would have taken a bit more of a beating, but check out what Michael Vick, dog torturer, has pled to: &#034;one count&#034; of conspiracy to travel across interstate lines for the purpose of doing the dog fighting thing. One count. yeah, that&#039;s believable. &#034;I did it once.&#034; &#034;I owned the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}