One is Legal the Other is Not. Are Americans Just Dumb?

In what can only be described as an attempt at sensationalism, many sports news outlets are reporting that Pedro Martinez was seen at a cockfight in his home country. Fox sports shares a story from the NY Post where the authors makes a Jr. High attempt to connect Pedro to Michael Vick.
Here’s my favorite quote:

The video marks the latest incident involving sports stars involved in animal cruelty.

Atlanta Falcon quarterback Michael Vick is serving a 23-month federal sentence and has been indefinitely suspended by the NFL because of a felony conviction on dogfighting charges.

There’s one big difference between what Vick was doing and what Pedro was doing. Pedro’s not breaking the law of his country. Even our astute investigative reporters note that he was with the man who used to be the country’s Minister of Sports and that it isn’t illegal in the country they are doing it in.  Have we really come to the place in our country where even the liberals think we need to start making the rules for how other countries live their life? Is **** fighting disgusting? Yes. Is it wrong? Yes. Does it matter what I think in the Dominican Republic? Nope. This is just dumb. If Pedro wants to go to a **** fight, that’s his business, not mine.
I even saw some idiot clamoring for Pedro to be put in jail on a message board. He kept saying, “We put Vick in jail, same thing for Pedro.” Has the American education really failed that badly? Is the ability to weld logic in America really that poor? Maybe we can invade the D.R. next so we can make sure they create laws that we like too. Did Vick get railroaded? Probably. Did he get more time than a no-name non-football player would have? Absolutely, but he did it in a country that has laws against it. The Dominican not only doesn’t have laws against it but it seems to be nationally accepted. It’s time for Americans to get over their hubris. It’s time for the “sports reporters” to just report the news and leave their agendas at home.