By KEVIN SITES

MIAMI - Ask Jason Atkins about the Michael Vick dogfighting scandal, and his reaction is anger and disgust.

“I just thought, you know, [he's] gotta be the worst criminal I’ve ever seen,” he says.

Animal rights advocates might find that response surprising, because Atkins’s Web network, ToughSportsLive.com, features live cockfighting from Puerto Rico - which, while legal there, is banned now in all 50 U.S. states.

“Our ultimate goal is to be a cultural website,” Atkins says of the site. “To produce and show the world’s various cultural sporting events.” [...]

Atkins, an ex-Marine sniper and former insurance fraud investigator, says he doesn’t like hunting or fishing and isn’t even a fan of cockfighting, but feels people have a right to see it if they want to - and his company has a right to provide it.

Atkins says his Marine training taught him to take the fight to the enemy, so he has filed a pre-emptive suit on First Amendment grounds challenging the law, which has already been upheld in one federal case.

First Amendment grounds? O.K. Let’s go there for a moment:

from The United States Constitution: The Bill of Rights

Now, Mr. Atkins, Mr. Ex-Marine sniper with waaay too much testosterone and small weenie. Please tell me how outlawing the transmission of cockfighting on the Internet(s) denies your right of “Freedom Of Speech”. As clearly outlined in the Constitution of The United States of America, “Freedom Of Speech” gives you the right to speak freely against the Government (unless, of course, it’s the Crime Family Administration/ Bush-Cheney).

So shut up and find some other way to make an easy buck while you wax nostalgic about your days as a sniper while you “polish your helmet”. -JS

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