"I Hate Dog Owners" - Ignorant LA Times rant on the Vick outcry

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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-stein10aug10,1,1208453.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

His email is at the end of the article. Perhaps a few polite, but to the point, explanations as to why the response to this atrocity does not take away or diminish reaction other atrocities committed by athletes (Or non-atheletes, who don't seem to deserve mention in this article) are called for here.

<snip>Michael Vick is where you draw the line? "Pacman" Jones is allegedly slamming strippers' heads into the side of the stage, other athletes have been accused of domestic violence -- a few of murder -- but the guy who allegedly ran a dog-fighting ring gets a three-month public outcry? Are dogs more precious than women? Women who are strippers?

I understand that torturing animals, forcing them to fight and killing the losers isn't OK. Neither is keeping animals in minuscule pens where they live in the suffocating stink of their own feces and then chopping them up for bacon. Yes, I know you think dogs and horses are totally different from pigs and chickens, and also that unicorns and Hello Kitty and David Cassidy are superawesomedreamy too, but at some point you have to move on to a morality that doesn't revolve around glittery stickers.

The mass public shaming of the Atlanta Falcons' quarterback, who was indicted by the feds for running a dog-fighting league called the Bad Newz Kennels, has been way out of proportion. If social convention permits us to still root for Kobe Bryant, then maybe it's fair just to put Vick in some serious counseling if he promises to buy a pit bull a really enormous diamond ring. </snip>

He also seems to need reminding that animal welfare laws are ignored far more easily than domestic violence laws, and that Dog Fighting is a FELONY, and by law demands far more than "counseling," however "serious."