If you look, you will find them everywhere
Writing by treason on Thursday, 30 of August , 2007 at 9:48 pm
“These animals are mad, vicious and a threat to society and should either be put down or kept permanently in cages to protect the public. I refer of course to the human animals who keep, breed and fight these dogs.”
That from “Rory,” commenting on a post at Slugger O’Toole – one of several blogs I scanned for reaction to the news that a footballer has been exposed as the leader of an international dogfighting ring. No, not Michael Vick. This footballer – or should I say soccer player? – and star of Ireland’s Gaelic football – er, soccer – league is Gerard Cavlan.
The blogs of Ireland are interesting to read: It appears the Irish, like the Americans, are debating this dogfighting case and some are defining it as a cultural issue, downplaying the criminality and sadism, and calling it a sport.
No, baseball is a sport. Dogfighting is an abomination. In any country, in any culture. Frankly, as far as I’m concerned, defending cruelty to dogs isn’t all that different from defending sex with children. Here in Nuevo Mexico, where animal and child abuse might as well be classified as professional sports, we have the story of Baby Brianna in the news… again.
She died five years ago, but we’re still being treated to the details of her case because convictions that had been overturned were just reinstated. Brianna’s father and her uncle, you see, spent an entire evening entertaining themselves by throwing the little girl around, stopping occasionally to sink their teeth into her and rape her. She was five months old.
I’m waiting for someone to tell me I’m overreacting to all these abuse stories. See, you just don’t understand. It’s not a criminal thing – it’s a cultural thing.
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