MICHAEL VICK SHOULD DIE!

Michael Vick should die for his crimes against the most loyal and loving creatures on earth. Dog lovers everywhere should appoint a time to beam death rays at him, from all over the world, to see if we can make his head explode.

If I were more courageous, I would hunt him down and eliminate him and all his despicable posse from the face of the earth. Maybe that would eliminate the horrible mental images of the torture he and his band of thugs put those poor innocent dogs through. It wasn't enough to shoot the ones they couldn't make fight, so they electrocuted, hanged, and beat them to death. You'd think he'd get enough outlet for his massive need for brutality on the football field, but apparently not.

I can't get it out of my head. I've always been what my late mother referred to as "overly sensitive" about animals. God knows, she tried to eradicate that from my emotional lexicon by never missing a chance to read some story about hideous animal abuse from the newspaper over breakfast or by regaling me with a story I'd missed on the evening news. It didn't seem to matter to her that just hearing those things gave me nightmares and disturbing thoughts for months. As far as I'm concerned, that's the only thing I know of that I think she's had to answer for in the hereafter, whatever her version of the hereafter was.

So, Michael Vick's actions have filled my head with horror and ruined the upcoming NFL season for me. Based on the comments and support he has received from some other players in the NFL, I'm wondering how many more of them need to go on my mental hit list. Some other player actually referred to dogfighting as a SPORT! Tell me he doesn't need to die, too.

Since I'm not brave enough to do track Vick and his ilk down and eliminate them from the gene pool, I can only hope that the justice system works, for once, and he doesn't walk out of the court room a free man because he really did get a jury of his peers.

I can tell you this, if I ever do get a terminal disease, I'm striking a blow for dogs everywhere.