The US vs. Bonds

[HoustonGM]

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090309/zirin

Whether or not you are a Barry Bonds fan, or consider him to be just a step above a seal-clubbing, pitbull-fighting bank executive, every person of good conscience should be aghast at the way the Justice Department has gone about its business. Barry Bonds, Greg Anderson and maybe thousands of others have had their rights trampled on, all for the glory of a perjury case that looks to be going absolutely nowhere. Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama have strongly indicated that the government is getting out of the steroid monitoring business. That is welcome, but after so many years, so many tax dollars and so many reputations destroyed, it all feels positively Pyrrhic.

[RedsoxRockies]

The government will never be able to make up for being total idiots with this...

[HoustonGM]

What exactly do they have to "make up"? Nobody really cares....as long as it's not their rights being disregarded!

[RedsoxRockies]

What exactly do they have to "make up"? Nobody really cares....as long as it's not their rights being disregarded!

They have to make up for making such a huge deal with the steriods, getting involved, and being total idiots

[Wassit3]

What exactly do they have to "make up"? Nobody really cares....as long as it's not their rights being disregarded!

thats the problem, no one cares until it's their rights or the rihts of a loved one but by then it's too late, the government has a precident so by not caring you have by defacto surendered your own rights too...

[HoustonGM]

They have to make up for making such a huge deal with the steriods, getting involved, and being total idiots

How exactly do they "make it up" and who exactly do the "make it up" to??

[Wassit3]

How exactly do they "make it up" and who exactly do the "make it up" to??

maybe they can pay the former steriod users reparations?

[RedsoxRockies]

How exactly do they "make it up" and who exactly do the "make it up" to??

Me. The fans, the players, for wasting their time. As for how to make it up, umm... Get rid of taxes?

[HoustonGM]

Me. The fans, the players, for wasting their time. As for how to make it up, umm... Get rid of taxes?

So are you just talking out of your ass now?

[RedsoxRockies]

So are you just talking out of your ass now?

No, I have no clue how they would be able to make it up. Maybe they could pass a law denying them the ability to get involved in sports situations... I have no clue... But oh well, they are not going too, so Nvm

[TheNamelessPoet]

exactly

[HoustonGM]

You've lost me. What do they have to make up to YOU? They didn't force you to spend your time following the case.

They can't pass a law saying they can't get involved with sports. That'd essentially be saying that athletes are above the law!

[200tang]

You've lost me. What do they have to make up to YOU? They didn't force you to spend your time following the case.

They can't pass a law saying they can't get involved with sports. That'd essentially be saying that athletes are above the law!

I think he was just commenting that he feels the government should pay us back, but he realizes that it's realistically impossible.

[RedsoxRockies]

I think he was just commenting that he feels the government should pay us back, but he realizes that it's realistically impossible.

Yes, that is what I meant

[OregonDuck1989]

From day one of the congressional hearings I've said the government has no business in this type of thing and now that they have successfully bungled this up to the point of no return I stand by it all.