Saturday, May 23, 2009

This is American justice, example number two. Michael Vick was recently released from the federal prison in Leavenworth, Kansas. Mr. Vick is the professional athlete convicted of conducting a dog fighting operation and just completed a nineteen month stint in jail. He caused the brutal death of many animals and some people feel that the jail time should have been longer, but at least there was an accounting.
The former Vice President is currently making the rounds of the rubber chicken circuit outlining crimes he committed while in office. These crimes resulted in the loss of over four thousand American lives plus over a million innocent civilian Iraqi lives. There is no call for an accounting. There is not even an investigation.
The lesson in American justice here seems to be: if you are black and kill dogs, you go to jail. If you are white and kill people, you get to brag.
I think Mr. Cheney needs to permanently retire to a secure location. One vacancy just occurred in Leavenworth.