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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: gatomjp on December 16, 2006, 08:02:24 AM
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SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors sent a clear message Thursday to Barry Bonds and
everyone else linked to the federal steroids investigation: lie to us, and we'll
come after you. Former world silver medalist cyclist Tammy Thomas, 36, was the
latest sports figure and first athlete to be indicted for hindering the
3-year-old grand jury probe. She faces three counts of perjury and one count of
obstruction of justice.
The prosecuters then went to a corner store just outside the courthouse for a
pack of cigarettes even though one of them is in the early stages of emphysema.
They then stopped at a local bar where it was two-for-one night and they
proceeded to drink half price margaritas until several of them had to be
escorted home. When asked about their case one inebriated lawyer said, "We'll get
thosh god damn drug abusers if ish the lasht thing we...uhh!" He then hit his
head on a barstool as he slipped to the floor.
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lmao!!!! so damned true!! i will never understand steroids being illegal as long as people are allowed to freely smoke cigarretes and ingest alcohol!!!...HYPOCRISY!!!
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thats the world we live in now, now if the goverment could sale roids, it would be legal!..........money!
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trudat!!! it has NOTHING to do with protecting us from harm! they dont give a rats ass about our wellbeing.it just about how much money they can rake in off of it.
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Remember what Woodward and Berstein were told by their informant "Deep Throat" during the Watergate investigation? "Follow the money." They did and the rest is history. The system is corrupt from the top down.
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There are three good reasons that the BALCO investigation continues unabated. First, money & authority. They've been funded & Dubya says he wants it pursued. Second, it gets the investigators instant publicity every time they do anything. The sports stations & superstations & sports papers & mags are all over it if they so much as sneeze. Third, Iraq. The powers that be want as many distractions as possible from the complete & utter failure of US foreign policy in the Middle East. WHO is going to side with the steroid users? Nobody, that's who.
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wow. well put, mike
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There are three good reasons that the BALCO investigation continues unabated. First, money & authority. They've been funded & Dubya says he wants it pursued. Second, it gets the investigators instant publicity every time they do anything. The sports stations & superstations & sports papers & mags are all over it if they so much as sneeze. Third, Iraq. The powers that be want as many distractions as possible from the complete & utter failure of US foreign policy in the Middle East. WHO is going to side with the steroid users? Nobody, that's who.
"Will someone please think of the children" ::)
Pretty sad sacks of shit.
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lmao!!!! so damned true!! i will never understand steroids being illegal as long as people are allowed to freely smoke cigarretes and ingest alcohol!!!...HYPOCRISY!!!
ummm....
People don't make money from drinking and smoking pal. Rethink what you just wrote. Bonds and all the other athletes are using drugs to ENHANCE there performance I.E. MAKE MORE MONEY FOR THEMSELVES. Yes this is wrong and unethical. Smoking and drinking is too I agree. Please don't compare sticking a needle in your arm, glute, to drinking a margarita....please don't be another stupid liberal trying to say its ok to use a controlled substance ::)
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This thing with Barry Bonds is getting a little too old now. 80% of all professional atheletes are on some kind of performance enhancements. Football players, hockey players, baseball players, olympic atheletes, etc. Just recently they found a tennis player using Deca. Its the way it is. Parents would be surprised to learn that their son/daughter's favorite athelete is on some kind of gas. Point being that Barry Bonds is not the only one.
PB
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"Will someone please think of the children" ::)
Pretty sad sacks of shit.
yeah..we don't want a little Johnny to get the impression that abusing drugs is good. As he watches millions of beer commerical during the footballl games, and dodges the second smoke from his father.
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This thing with Barry Bonds is getting a little too old now. 80% of all professional atheletes are on some kind of performance enhancements. Football players, hockey players, baseball players, olympic atheletes, etc. Just recently they found a tennis player using Deca. Its the way it is. Parents would be surprised to learn that their son/daughter's favorite athelete is on some kind of gas. Point being that Barry Bonds is not the only one.
PB
they should'nt be so suprised their own kid isn't on them either...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES ran an investigative series of articles in the late 1980s about the steroid trade, its history & development. According to those reporters, several things happened in the 1980s that got the attention of the feds. At that point, it was a hundred million dollar annual illegal industry in the US (it's more than that in 2006, of course). The first thing that got the feds' attention is that high school athletes were dropping dead from self-injecting veterinarian steroids they were buying on the street. The parents of these boys were screaming bloody murder that the feds had to do something, & do it fast. Also, the Mafia got involved in distribution. It had become more profitable to distribute steroids than heroin. Wise guys were walking into gyms & telling gym owners they would be killed if they didn't start fronting steroids to their members. Meanwhile, the IOC (International Olympic Committee) was screaming bloody murder about the juiced athletes in their competitions (& juiced all sorts of ways, not just AAC).
In 1990, the feds did the easiest thing they could do address the problem: they passed the Anabolic Steroid Control Act, classifying unprescribed anabolics as the equivalent of narcotics, in effect making them "controlled substances." That prevented MDs from being able to prescribe them to athletes for "recreational use" (i.e., no medical need). Meanwhile, this prohibition led (as Prohibition of alcohol did in the 1920s) to an explosion of use, as underground labs started cranking all sorts of designer 'roids out for the masses. The legal use of prohormones due to the dietary supplement law in 1994 created a gap that recent laws have closed up. Also meanwhile, more laws have gone into effect further criminalizing steroid use & possession, including a recent "emergency" law that makes any illegal use of anabolics a serious federal crime. Now anyone who looks like a bodybuilder who goes through US Customs is treated like a potential criminal.
The upshot is this: being a bodybuilder is close to being a federal crime in the US.
http://www.mesomorphosis.com/articles/collins/wrong-prescription.htm
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lmao!!!! so damned true!! i will never understand steroids being illegal as long as people are allowed to freely smoke cigarretes and ingest alcohol!!!...HYPOCRISY!!!
the government wants to call "supplements" drugs...If they could, they would make vitamin C a drug and make people have to have a prescription to use it...So if you understand that, then steroids not be legal should make sense to the country we live in..
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ummm....
People don't make money from drinking and smoking pal. Rethink what you just wrote. Bonds and all the other athletes are using drugs to ENHANCE there performance I.E. MAKE MORE MONEY FOR THEMSELVES. Yes this is wrong and unethical. Smoking and drinking is too I agree. Please don't compare sticking a needle in your arm, glute, to drinking a margarita....please don't be another stupid liberal trying to say its ok to use a controlled substance ::)
im not going to rething anything! i still stand by what i wrote. whats wrong with enhancing your performance and, while were at it, whats wrong with making more money??? whats wrong with giving fans what they want to see...bigger, better, stronger athletes? i need to know whats "wrong and unethical" about that?
you call this wrong and unethical...then you say the same thing about smoking and drinking....then you ask ME not to compare the 2!!! lol!! well, isnt that what you just did?
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ummm....
People don't make money from drinking and smoking pal. Rethink what you just wrote. Bonds and all the other athletes are using drugs to ENHANCE there performance I.E. MAKE MORE MONEY FOR THEMSELVES. Yes this is wrong and unethical. Smoking and drinking is too I agree. Please don't compare sticking a needle in your arm, glute, to drinking a margarita....please don't be another stupid liberal trying to say its ok to use a controlled substance ::)
oh, and by the way, youre right. you CANT compare the 2. smoking and drinking are physically addictive, steroids are not....