I just listened to a comment online by Tucker Carlson filling in for Sean Hannity  on Hannity Tonight , and I have to say that it may have been the dumbest statement I have heard when it comes to Michael Vick yet. (See comment here: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gameon/post/2010/12/michael-vick-tucker-carlson-executed/1?csp=hf)  To say on national television that Vick should have been executed for what he did is about at hateful a statement as anyone has made.  So now Vick belongs along the same category as Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, and executed DC sniper John Mohammed?

I myself am a huge dog and animal lover, and feel that the crimes that Michael Vick committed are almost unimaginable.  To torture and killed dogs in the way he and his group did is something I could not even visualize let alone justify in anyway.  But is the life of a dog or animal on the same rank or level as a human being?  Trust me, I am not marginalizing the horrific acts that he committed against those dogs, but are their lives equivalent to the lives of the victims of John Mohammed?

All over this world animals are hunted for sport without people like Tucker Carlson saying as much as a whisper about it.  I would even be willing to bet that Mr. Carlson is a meat eater himself.  Before making a comment like he did, he should monitor the process in which cows, chicken and that turkey he ate for Thanksgiving are slaughtered.  I would like to see how judge mental he would be then.

The thing that stuck out with me the most about his comment is how he prefaced it by saying that he was a Christian.  So he says he is a follower of the “Forgiving God of a second chance” (Eph. 4:32), but yet he can’t find it in his heart to forgive Michael Vick.  Instead he wants to see him executed.  Does Tucker feel the same way about the thousands of doctors that kill unborn babies everyday around this country?  Does he feel they should be executed also?  Or does he feel that is different, like the supporters of abortion he feels that they are not yet a life!!

Bottom line, if Michael Vick were a bus driver that committed these acts, people would not care as much about how sternly he was punished as long as he was punished.  The fact that Michael Vick is a high profile athlete who’s comes into our homes every week making millions of dollars, which somehow gives us the right to judge him.  And he was in fact punished strongly for his actions.  But what about Bernie Madoff who single handily wiped out the futures of thousands with his money making scheme, is he forgotten?  Kenneth Lay who headed the Enron scandal that bankrupt an entire company, wiping out the retirement of dedicated workers of the company that made him a multi-millionaire.

Tell me, does Michael Vick really deserve to be listed among this group of people?