Email your steroid opinions to CNN

[roadkill]

From another board but important to be heard!!

OK guys, if u want to have ur opinions heard on CNN, we need to start posting on the Blogs about it. they will be updating and reading excerts from the blogs all day. unfortunately, i do not know which bloggers they are reading from. i didnt write them down when i heard them. so far all the blogs have been negative, saying that congress hasd no place investigating this.

Here are the contact info for inside politics. hopefully they will air some excerpts from our emails. we can piss and moan to each other all we want, but if want our voice heard, now is the time to do it!! take 10 minutes to send an email to these guys. if they get enough they are bound to air something! Here are the guys for inside politics on CNN: john@realclearpolitics.com ; tom@realclearpolitics.com

Here is an article criticizing congress efforts for the hearings, and contact info for the author. send him a copy of any email u send, maybe he will voice our opinnions.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Co...3_17_05_SC.html

[Large1]

Good call, I just recently bitched out The Jane Pauley Show for their BS about steroids causing this teenagers suicide, anyway, we need to fight back. Are there any organizations that support the reform of steroid laws?

[J DUB]

Thanks for posting that, I sent them a little something.
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John,

I, like many Americans, am very disturbed by these Congressional hearings involving Major League Baseball and anabolic steroids. Perhaps I am wrong, but it certainly seems there are more stressing issues in our country at this time than steroids in baseball. I also question the ability of Congress to hold such a hearing, and President Bush would not even give reporters a firm answer as to whether he believed Congress should have done this. I for one am very angry that even a penny of my tax contribution is going to support such this witch-hunt.

As far as the suggestion that baseball help pay for steroid testing at the collegiate level (and maybe even high school), this is absurd! Is Congress next going to subpoena Hollywood and request that they pay for the medical bills of lung cancer patients who started smoking because they saw their favorite actor or actress doing so on the big screen? I hope not, but what is the difference between these two situations? Give me a break.

Also, while I feel terrible for the Hooten and Garibaldi families, their conclusions that steroids killed their sons are completely unsupported by scientific evidence. There is not even a weak correlation between steroid use and suicide, much less a firm establishment of causality. If over 500,000 teens used steroids last year (or even 100,000) and only two committed suicide, then I think it is safe to say without a formal study that there is no relation between steroid use and suicide. This is yet another myth related to the side effects of anabolic steroids, and it is time for us to actually consult the medical and psychological literature to find the truth rather than relying on the emotional appeals of distraught parents as scientific truth.

Thank you for your time in reading this, and I hope you find something useful to include in your show.

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[Millard Baker]

Originally Posted by J DUB

President Bush would not even give reporters a firm answer as to whether he believed Congress should have done this.

Actually, Bush gave his endorsement yesterday:

"I appreciate the fact that baseball is addressing this, and I appreciate that Congress is paying attention to this. I understand that when a professional athlete uses steroids, it sends a terrible signal to young people.''

I'm surprised for several reasons - including the fact that Bush loves has (or had) many friends who are baseball team owners. In fact, the baseball owners and their families raised close to $2 million for his 2004 presidential reelection campaign.

[big roid]

Originally Posted by administrator

Actually, Bush gave his endorsement yesterday:

"I appreciate the fact that baseball is addressing this, and I appreciate that Congress is paying attention to this. I understand that when a professional athlete uses steroids, it sends a terrible signal to young people.''

I'm surprised for several reasons - including the fact that Bush loves has (or had) many friends who are baseball team owners. In fact, the baseball owners and their families raised close to $2 million for his 2004 presidential reelection campaign.

Bush is the anti-crist. I have no support for him. I voted for Kerry so I can bitch about what he does.

[biggie260]

Here is what I have just vented in the past few minutes. If you guys want to add anything or thoughts let me know. I have not sent it yet. I can't tell you guys how frustrated I am with this system we have as a govt. I can not in anyway rationalize putting a steroid user in prison much less in prison with hard core drug dealers or murders.
This is a sample letter I might send to CNN.

I would just like take an opportunity to voice an opinion about this issue. These were not made illegal until 1991 when the federal anabolic control act was put in place.
How long has cocaine, meth, marijuana, opium, etc been illegal? I don't see Darryl Strawberry before the congress and how many times did he get arrested for cocaine possession.
Better yet, how many congressmen are taking testosterone therapy? Why is that ok? How many are using viagra to improve their performance in bed? Isn't that cheating?
Congress says that baseball is our past time and that these men are our role models. Yes, they are role models, hero's I am not so sure. Hero's are the men and women in Iraq, Vietnam, Kuwait or how about law enforcement, that have their budget cut ever year but are responsible for the security of the entire North America.
If we want to talk about role models and what is expected of them, isn't the president the biggest role model figure we have? We all know that every president we have had in office has lead a completely drug free, adultery free, sin free life style now don't we. Kind of the pot calling the kettle black isn't it?
Let me propose this to you. How is a man or woman who wants to improve there physical appearance and ability a felon? Isn't our tv riddled with commercials about fat pills, diet remedies, excercise equipment, and plastic surgery.
How can a man go to a doctor and say he wants to be a woman and he will then get hormones and possibly surgery to change his entire appearance and that is ok and even, nowadays, acceptable? But yet, a man wants to improve his physical performance and appearance and that is a felony offense? I don't understand the logic behind this.
Better yet, you can go to any doctor and get bags of plastic put in your body for larger breasts and that is widely acceptable, or inject a substance into your face to get rid of lines, or in your lips to make them fuller. It's all about improving your appearance and how you feel about yourself. So please help me understand why a man or woman properly using steroids is such a big controversy?
There are more people that die from smoking then have ever died from steroids, but let's make smoking legal.
If fact more people have died from DUI accidents then steroids, or better yet, more people have died from overdose of over the counter aspirin then steroids. Make any sense.
Our medical society still does not know the true long term effects of steroid usage but yet they can only come up with: they are dangerous and bad. Some people think playing football is dangerous and bad. Some people think ski diving is dangerous and bad.
Why does a steroid user have to be placed in the same category as a cocaine user or dealer? How many steroid users have robbed the local 7-11 for their next steroid fix? How many have lost touch with reality and stole a tank and drove down the streets of a city in California and terrorized an entire city?
My point is this, it is yet to be determined if steroids cause depression or even suicide. There has not been enough reseach on this at all. Most people that commit suicide or have behavior problems while using steroids most likely had these pre existing conditions but they were not projected as much.
There are to many so called important people that only know what they have read about steroids.
Why is it the word of god when a parent that obviously was not communicating with her kid or intervening in her child's life, tells congress that her son died in "her personal and professional opinion" from steroid usage. She probably does not even know what a steroid pill or injectable looks like, but yet she is an expert all of the sudden. A personal and professional opinion is not a FACT. Until I see that fact that steroids were the direct effect that killed someone, it is nothing more the media propoganda. Allegedly this boy was obsessed with being a baseball player. He was allegedly offered a contract with the NY Yankees out of high school. He did not take it and went to college. It ended up he did not get drafted and was then cut from the college team. Allegedly he was then put in an institution where he was given anti-psychotic and anti-depressant medication. His parents even suspected he suffered from bipolar disorder, but your right AAS is BAD. So instead of taking responsibility, in my personal and professional opinion, for your child the mother turns around and blames it on AAS, to help her justify crappy parental control and influence.
THG, one of the steroids in the investigation, was not made illegal until recent months, and while the possession and sale of human growth hormone without a prescription is a crime, its personal use is not.
How many HGH therapy commercials do you see on tv? We really need to open our eyes and not make these people felons, but figure out a way to regulate the usage of it so if people want to use then there are some controls over it.
I live in a democracy, a free country, and I am having the government tell me what I can do to my body. Is that really a free country? Any one can go to mexico and purchase these substances legally over the counter and look at all the baseball players, football players,and bodybuilders down there that are assaulting people, robbing, murdering, and kidnapping people for steroids. Now how many of the hard core dealers and such are doing those activities in mexico?
We need to wake up and stop being afraid of steroids and realize the people are evolving as well as technology. That's a fact and will always be.

I will not accept a governmental system that is working for me and put in place by me and the rest of america, telling people that if you have a steroid pill to develop your physical ability or appearance, we are going to make you a felon and put you in prison along side the cocaine dealer that murdered and robbed some guy that didn't pay up.