Should DOJ Take Barry Bonds to Court?
By Tom Shoop | Friday, August 10, 2007 | 09:48 AM
By Tom Shoop | Friday, August 10, 2007 | 09:48 AM
It's safe to say that Robert Weiner, former spokesman for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, isn't thrilled that Barry Bonds broke baseball's home run record this week. In an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle Weiner, along with Kate Berenato, a senior at Lehigh University, argue that the Justice Department should put Bonds on trial on charges that he used steroids and other illegal drugs:
He should be tried in drug court for use of illegal substances and, if found to have used them, should be given mandatory treatment. Drug court allows for people to be convicted of non-aggressive drug charges without being sent to jail, rather they are given the help they need in rehab programs.
Comments
Steve, baseball is the only sport that is exempt from monopoly laws. therefore they should looked at with a fine tooth comb or give up the protection
dan ketter | Monday, August 13, 2007 | 12:50 PMThe Federal Government has no business policing the baseball, football, basketball, tetherball, beach volleyball, professional wrestling, etc. franchises. These matters are best left to the sports commissioners and the local Police.
Stephen | Friday, August 10, 2007 | 04:19 PMBarry never tested positive.
me | Friday, August 10, 2007 | 03:12 PMI agree with you. I love sports but it is a shame that athletes do not seem to be held to the same level of legality and accountability that the average citizen does. If someone walking down the street is caught with drugs, they are arrested and penalized, there is no extra consideration given. Barry Bonds is a good player, but how many HR would he have had he not taken these drugs? Maybe he would not have passed Hank Aaron's record had he not used performance enhancing drugs. I think they should yank the record from him and put him on trial- the soothsayer
Chris | Friday, August 10, 2007 | 12:33 PMFederal Govenrment needs to find something else to occupy their time rather than trying to police individual citizens relative to what they are doing or ingesting.
Also, Weiner and little miss kate have no business advising me about what I should tell my children. I bet she doesn't have any kids; how is it that she is an expert on parenting?
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