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Originally Posted by King Glorious
Cannon, makes sense for Congress to be involved here. As you said, and it's the same question I asked a while ago.....what would they be doing if Clemens had admitted from the start that he did it? They wouldn't have a thing to do. They don't have anything to do now. They can't prosecute guys that did it so what is the point? Scuds is saying that Congress should go after these criminals but does he realize that Congress is only going after the guys that DENIED using the stuff. The ones that are the ADMITTED CRIMINALS, the guys like Vina and Pettitte, they aren't the ones Congress is going after. So why can't Scuds understand that? They aren't going after the guys that are guilty because there is nothing they can do about it and since there is nothing they can do about it, why are they wasting their time and taxpayer money to find out if Roger did something that probably 70-80% of the public already believes he did? Why are they wasting taxpayer money to find out if Bonds lied? They know they can't get Bonds for actually using. This stuff is all so stupid. Scuds is saying that Bonds should be in prison. But Congress can't put him in prison for using the stuff. They can't put Pettitte in prison for using it. They can't put Clemens in for using. They can't put ANYBODY in for using. So what was the point of the Mitchell investigation in the first place?
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You act as if this is a new thing. There are congressional investigations into all kinds of crap other than sports that you would consider a waste of time and money. I will again state why congress thinks it necessary (I dont necessarily know because some of the other crap they have investigated I deem much more worthless)
1. Baseball's antitrust status which congress could easily take away if federal laws are being broken. They enjoy a special business privilege (possibly unfair), go back and look at these debates.
2. It first started with BALCO investigation which was a company also linked to Olympic tampering, a Federally funded endevour. Links between trainers and BAlco led to baseball. Then of course it was time to take the stage for the senators and congressmen.
3. Kids are doing this stuff on a high school level, it has crept into school. Our damn state is now having to spend taxpayer money on testing. This trickled in from pro sports to college, college to High School. My state with a REPUBLICAN governor has deemed this a health risk. I would much rather a kid who is still developing physically, smoke pot a few times, than mix HGH with steriods one time.
4. ANd NOW PERJURY. What is it that you do not get about Perjury?
Arlen Specter little foray is kind of strange.
Probably a power trip sort of thing.
But this
guy is of huge importance on the justice committe.
If Arlen Specter was not around, we would still have
a Justice Dept. that was a complete and utter joke,
and the laughing stock of all other countries who actually
look to the US for insights into well thought out law.