Comments on: Michael Vick Sacked By Nike, Reebok

Amid Dog-Fighting Scandal, Nike Suspends Quarterback's Contract, Reebok Halts Sale Of His Jersey

[nothappyatall]

In 2001, PETA donated $1,500 to the North American Earth Liberation Front, a criminal organization that the FBI classifies as domestic terrorists. Since 2000, PETA activists have been arrested over 80 times for breaking various laws during PETA protests. Charges included felony obstruction of government property, criminal mischief, assaulting a cabinet official, felony vandalism, performing obscene acts in public, destruction of federal property, and burglary.

PETA's leadership openly advocates breaking the law.
In 2003 PETA collected over $24 million from Americans, avoiding over $3.5 million in fed income taxes. Because this tax break amounts to a huge subsidy, every taxpayer is footing the bill for PETA's behavior

PETA's tax-exempt status was granted by the U.S. govt on the basis of the group conducting itself in a lawful fashion. PETA has failed to live up to its end of the bargain, and that the Internal Revenue Service should cancel PETA's tax-exempt status.

Sign the petition to have PETA's tax-exempt status removed;
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[nothappyatall]

PETA Trial

The North Carolina animal-cruelty trial of two PETA employees ended with a surprising result, but the animal rights group admitted under oath that it does, indeed, kill large numbers of animals. Our daily reports from inside the courtroom provide a rare look at one of the radical organization's most secret programs

Learn how they obtained healthy adoptable animals under FALSE pretenses and then killed them;

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Jurors hear testimony that on June 15, 2005 Adria Hinkle promised PETA would try to find homes for animals she killed later that day. And police describe a few bizarre conversations with Hinkle before her arrest.

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[nothappyatall]

Dannytown- you need to actually READ about the animal rights terrorists of PeTA and HSUS, their goals and their agenda to eliminate pets. Their support and pushing for MANDATORY spay-neuter of ALL dogs follows PeTA's stated sentiments of "neuter neuter neuter till our pathetic version of the cat is EXTINCT" (Ingrid Newkirk quote to the media)

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Hypocrisy is the mother of all credibility problems, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has it in spades. While loudly complaining about the "unethical" treatment of animals by restaurant owners, grocers, farmers, scientists, anglers, and countless other Americans, the group has its own dirty little secret;

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PETA raked in nearly $29 million last year in income, much of it raised from pet owners who think their donations actually help animals. Instead, the group spends huge sums on programs equating people who eat chicken with Nazis, scaring young children away from drinking milk, recruiting children into the radical animal-rights lifestyle, and intimidating businessmen and their families in their own neighborhoods. PETA has also spent tens of thousands of dollars defending arsonists and other violent extremists.

[nothappyatall]

"Nike is concerned by the serious and highly disturbing allegations made against Michael Vick, and we consider any cruelty to animals inhumane and abhorrent," Nike spokesman Dean Stoyer said in a statement. "

Forgetting that he is INNOCENT untill proven guilty in court and he hasn't had a trial yet.
Forgettign that these sportswear companies enjoy record profits off the backs of slave labor in third world countries they suddenly get ethics!

[dovestar]

Mr. Vick has been formally accused of some vile and disgusting acts. By rights, he has been suspended by his team pending an investigation. But the way I hear those who have thusfar responded to this comment line, Mr. Vick has already been convicted and hung out to dry.
Folks, the trial hasn't happened yet. Mr. Vick is just like any other American. He has the right to a presumption of innocence until proven guilty in a court of law. Mr. Vick will have the opportunity to present his defense in a court of law and account for his actions. Until then let's not rush to judgement. There's a security guard in Atlanta who could tell you a real story about that.

[dannyttown]

Praises to Nike and Reebok and to everyone who sent them e-mails in protest. It's good to hit Vick where it hurts: his pocketbook! Also, thanks to PETA and The Humane Society for all the fine work that they are doing!

[keithle1]

Guys from the ghetto will exhibit ghetto/thug behavior. Vick isn't being paid to be smart. he's paid to throw a football around. Could have seen this company. Companies don't want to be associated with any pro athlete or celeb involved in anything that's
illegal/controversional/questionable. Of course folks will say he's being persecuted because he's black. Better keep your nose clean, fellas.
You can't keep anything a secret in this age of the Internet, cellphones, camera phones, 24-7 news on the TV/radio, etc.

[formrusmcsgt]

I wonder why Visk didn't wear his ever-present Aunt Jemima rag to court....

[us18988]

Thanks Nike.

If Vick is indeed found guilty of the charges, and the proof is pretty incontestable, then he should be hung up by his gonads in public.

And the same goes for any other overpaid, over tattoo-ed loud mouthed, incompetent in the NFL, the NBA, and the AL and NL too. It's time we had athletes like DiMaggio, Koufax, Aaron, Mays, and Clemente who were true role models, not cr&p like Canseco, Vick, and that NBA clown Latrell who tried to choke his coach to death. They should be stripped of their salaries and made to clean toilets.

In Vick's case, if guilty, put in a pen with those poor dogs whom he abused to the point of violence.

[cantshutup]

does nike still outsource it's manufacturing to india ???

i think dog fighting is horrible too, but so is taking jobs away from Americans for the profits of nike...

[cdfoxtrot]

About time. I guess Nike realized the public relations disaster that's unfolding, by being associated with an animal abuser. Hopefully the Nike spokesperson who was quite belligerent in comments the other day, supporting the animal abuser, has been invited to find employment somewhere else.

[adian1-2009]

Well done, NIKE. Now I won't feel bad when I buy your products for myself or for members of my family. I was ready to stop buying your brand, even though I recognize that it would be hard to find something of same quality for the money. Now I have one concern less than yesterday. Thank you!