Author Dov Seidman recently posted on the effect Barry Bonds’ reputation will have on the way people will view his achievements through history. He compares it to how businesses must learn to deal with the effect of reputation on their efforts. I think you’ll find it fascinating.

If you are interested, you’ll find it at http://howblogazine.com/barry-bonds-makes-the-number-but-misses-the-mark

We’ll be following your work here.

Nelson Handel, Editorial Director
How Blogazine

Clearly, if they suspend him now, they’re only responding to “outside pressure,” not doing what they think is right. What does that say?

The public is overwhelmingly against Vick. At my day job, we put up a neat interactive poll and 90% so far have voted against Vick:

http://www.ugo.com/a/love-or-hate/?person=michael-vick

Maybe you know something about Michael Vick I don’t. I must admit, I did not follow his collegiate career. I don’t remember him entering the NFL. So I can’t look back and say he was always a thug.

The statement you made about Arabs is really overgeneralizing and unfair.

The issue isn’t that he throws a football, so we’re going to look the other way. The issue is that he hasn’t been convicted. If there’s a chance he was not involved, and there is definitely a chance, then it would be more unjust to punish him for no reason.

He will face consequences if the evidence proves he is guilty. But if the evidence proves without a doubt that he had no involvement? What then? A lot of people will owe him an apology.

He may be an innocent man with a HUGE reputation management problem.

And for the record, the only thing more despicable than mutilating animals is mutilating humans. I cannot bear to even imagine what was done to these poor animals, so don’t think that my opinion is based on desensitization. I care very much about animal safety. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to take my moral outrage and hang the first person accused. Due process, my friends. Due process.

Let this thing play out. Give the courts a chance. Some of you have no idea how crooked this nation would quickly become without them. The imbalance we have now pales in comparison to that.

You obviously feel very passionately about this subject. I’m not comfortable with putting “Don’t say innocent until proven guilty” in the same paragraph as “Remember fair play, the golden rule they taught you in church.”

This is just like the Barry Bonds situation. You may be 100% convinced that he is guilty. But punishments are not met out based on even certain opinions. Facts must come into play.

Though I tend to think Vick had “some” knowledge of what was going on, I can’t say how much and I’m more than comfortable with letting him off the hook if no evidence is supplied.

Why? Not because I love Vick or the Atlanta Falcons. Far from it! I’m a tried and true Dallas Cowboys fan. But because as long as we err on the side of innocent, we can sleep at night. There are hundreds if not thousands of law breakers running free because they simply haven’t been caught yet. But the one innocent man who rots in jail is an injustice there is no excuse for.