I doubt it would impact other IFBB professionals. The (smart) ones who travel overseas have their networks setup so that they don't have to carry anything illegal into the countries their visiting.. Dopes like Stallone and Hidetada are exceptions.
sly thought he was being smart by letting his bodyguards carry it for him (could he have been any more stupid?) and completely underestimated the australian customs.
you're right and, in fact, any ifbb pro (especially one being mentored by milos who has as much longevity in the industry as anyone) caught with gear in his air luggage is beyond retarded.
in fact, one could argue that he should be destroyed simply for being so careless, but i strongly disagree with this line of thought.
none of this stuff affects me personally either way. i'm not even living anywhere near usa.
what i have a problem with is the government misusing it's power to catch cheating athletes.
that's what all this shit boils down to. it's got nothing at all to do with health or society as steroid use has never been proven to affect either to the point whereby government intrusion was ever necessary.
an athlete cheat is an easy target because, despite 99% of top level athletes using performance enhancing drugs, rarely will an athlete risk his future livelihood to admit it. therefore, the subject remains taboo amongst them and those who get caught are left to fend for themselves. meanwhile, soccer mom and joe public couldn't give a shit either because it's just another 'drug cheat' getting locked away while they swig down their acohol and smoke their cigarettes while they sit on the couch all day while their arteries get all blocked up with all that saturated fat they eat.
people can change their sex, shove silicone through their bodies, drink as much alcohol as they like (even though it continues to kill billions per annum, proven inciter of violence, directly cause poverty and homelessness), smoke as many cigarettes as they like (even though there are signs on the pack with admissions to killing billions per annum, causing cancer, heart disease, etc NOT JUST IN THEMSELVES BUT THOSE WHO SURROUND) but if an individual makes the choice to use a relatively harmless drug, they are deprived of their liberty, constitutional rights and treated like second class citizens. they are attacked by their government ruthlessly, publically villified and locked up in a jail cell.
does this sound like a democracy to anyone here? is it right to destroy law abiding fellow citizens just because you or i happen to not make the same choices?
i say this is a disgusting abuse of power. these guys are being bullied and victimized by a government, simply because it can. would a nicotine user expect such treatment?
why not? can someone/anyone show me how anabolic steroid use can cause 1 millionth the damage to individual or society that nicotine use does? how many tax paying dollars are contributed to the damages caused by nicotine use as compared to steroid use?
i'll tell you
why not, the government goes after this section of society, simply because it suits their pupose ie political power, kick backs from federations like the ioc. this is straight forward bullying and victimization, and completely destructive and antagonistic to democratic society and what that society stands for. how is it destructive to society when one man gets victimized and sent to prison? because imprisonment is a last resort for a very good reason ie when you deprive a free citizen of all of his rights and send him to prison, he goes there with resentment and hatred ie the experience will IN NO WAY rehabilitate him, he will simply become more hateful, vengeful, anti-society (who can blame him?) and, basically,
become a criminal. i wonder if titus would have caused so much damage to society and the prepetuating damage that continues through others affected,
IF he had been treated as a democratic citizen (and thus, his constitutional rights provided to him) in the first place?
