We have to really watch our regulatory agencies, just as we must watch our attorneys generals and county district attorneys. You see, it's so easy for someone to get a little authority and use that to build a name for themselves. It happens all the time and we must not ever be naïve about that. Now then, without going to the defense of Lance Armstrong, because he's doing fine and hardly needs another follower on his social networking pages, I'd like to use this as an interesting case study.
You see, on October 10, 2012 there was an interesting piece in the news on KTUU TV Alaska, an NBC affiliate titled; "USADA chief previews Lance Armstrong report," after the agency released their case into the media. Now then, if you will recall previously the agency wouldn't release the information to Lance Armstrong personally to answer, but feels it's right to release it to the global media now? This is really unfair, and it almost says to a former athlete like myself that this agenda wants to destroy American greatness. In fact, it makes think that this sort of attack on American Exceptionalism is part of much bigger socialist agenda.
At times previously during all the press releases of that agency, it appeared they were almost vindictive, and the epitome of the Peter Principle because maybe they couldn't make it in the real world, or perhaps not the sporting world. By the way, I am a former high-performance athlete, a miler, and I never used any type of illegal injectable enhancement tools.
Okay so here is my question; is this agency is more interested in publicity than anything else? It could be, and I see a number of our government agencies with such agendas these days. Perhaps you've witnessed this scenario; once you give someone a little authority, instantly, they are out to make a name for themselves. The way I see it the USADA had years to find fault with Armstrong, but now so long after the fact, now that Lance Armstrong has transcended sports, he is now an American Hero, an American Icon, and we need not diminish our nation or destroy our heroes on the account of a ruthless ambition from within our government.
In my opinion, it's wrong what they've done, and to attempt to save face now by throwing all that information into the media is just what we can expect of such an agency. They just want headlines, fame-seeking. It's pathetic. Further, it's this sort of attacking the winners that is destroying our culture. Can't you see it?
You know, I've done a lot in my life, and looking back I have always been challenged by people calling me names such as; sociopath, meglomaniac, and the list is pretty long. For instance this article is number 27,900 debatably the most number of articles ever written by anyone in human history. I've been told by my detractors that I cheated, didn't write these articles, that I used a software program to do it, but I did do it. Indeed, when we have people willing to take away our hard work and victories so they can feel better about themselves that's when we have a problem.
If we take away our cultural heroes, inevitably we will be killing the future for our own children as they set their own goals and dreams. Please consider all this and think on it.
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