Enlightening Ignorance

Dante Stallworth

It seems that after driving drunk in Miami and killing an elderly man back in March of this year, Dante Stallworth will only serve 30 days in jail, along with 2 years house arrest (which can’t be all bad for a millionaire), 8 years probation, and the lifetime surrendering of his drivers license. Goodell has also suspended him indefinitely and without pay for the 2009 NFL season, but the terms of his sentence states that he will be able to play football during his home confinement period if reinstated by the commissioner. I understand that by pleading guilty to manslaughter charges, Stallworth is taking full responsibility for what he has done. However, this case is eerily similar to the Leonard Little case back in 1998. For those who don’t know about Little, he’s a defensive end of the St. Louis Rams and in 1998, after leaving a party drunk, he careened into a woman’s car an killed her. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail, 4 years probation, and 1000 hours of community service. Under commissioner Tagliabue, he was only suspended for 8 games during the 1998 season.

Micheal Vick

Now keep in mind that in the Stallworth and Little cases, two people lost their lives, while Michael Vick was made and example of for dogfighting. Vick was sentenced to 23 months in a federal prison, 4 years probation, and it’s still up in the air whether or not he will be reinstated into the league. Not to mention the price that he has paid financially, socially, and publicly. Yes, I do understand there were extenuating circumstances that went into the Vick conviction but I am talking about “hard time served” here. Stallworth and Little’s time served combined is still a fraction of what Vick served, and they killed people. In my opinion, people who drive drunk should be treated by our legal system like murders, rapists, and pedophiles. There is nothing more inconsiderate than getting behind he wheel of a car drunk. You are not only endangering your life but the lives of anyone unfortunate enough to cross your path. I’m not advocating for Michael Vick because dogfighting is a disgusting and semibarbaric form of entertainment. I like everyone else, thought he should have been punished for his indiscretion but when you compare these offenses, the punishments seem a bit questionable, don’t they? This is just my opinion, but I personally think Stallworth and Little were slapped on the wrist, considering the fact that two people are dead because of their bad judgement and blatant inconsideration.

This story is actually more developed now than the video above demonstrates, and if your not familiar with it, you should look it up on CNN.com. 

This story is very upsetting to me. I can’t find a crevice within myself deep enough to understand the mind set of Casey Anthony (mother of Caylee). How do you report your child missing an entire month after she goes missing. Then tell nothing but lies to the police and everyone else trying to find the little girl. It’s sickening the way this woman seems to have the least bit of interest in finding her child. It hurts my heart to say this, but I believe Casey knows exactly where her daughter is, and I pray for the contrary, but I don’t believe she is as safe as her mother wants us to believe. A concerned mother interested in finding her missing child would not do what this woman has been doing for the past few weeks. I really hope they find that little girl safe, but it doesn’t seem like her mother is the least bit concerned about where she is.

She complains that the media is twisting everything she is saying to make it seem as though she is responsible for her child’s disappearance, but it seems like she doesn’t realized that if she had told the truth in the beginning, or even starts telling the truth now, there would be nothing for the media to misconstrue. She is actually refusing tho cooperate with police. I for one am very aware of the short comings of American media, but I don’t think the media are to blame in this case; Casey Anthony is. People can formulate their own opinions based on the details that are being presented, and right now Casey Anthony is digging her own grave in the face of public or even private opinion. Like I said, if your not familiar with this story you should look it up, it’s devastating. Casey Anthony has created such a huge web of treachery that the process of trying to get one shred of truth out of her can overshadow the fact that there is an innocent little girl that’s unaccounted for. I really hope that at the end of all of this I will be proven wrong about Casey………. as she claims. As foolish as it is, I hope she really is lying to protect that little girl……..as she claims. Pray for Caylee, because she didn’t choose to be born to this woman.