If drug use in Cycling is that open and widespread, why are they zeroing-in on him now?
It does appear though, on the surface, that “they” need a “prime fall guy” and LA is the “chosen one”, since he’s got the 7 TdF titles which they somehow don’t think he (an American) should be entitled to earn and hold.
Who “they” is/are, I don’t know, yet. I haven’t followed that sport or the politics in it, and I sure don’t want to get into any “black helicopter” theories, here.
Just thinking out loud, after reading so many articles/stories/testimony in the past few days.
I’m still keeping an open mind about the coming testimony/evidence etc.
The word on Armstrong as been out for a long time but it’s taken years to have enough evidence to move it forward. I promise this isn’t a care of anti Americanism.
For years the foreign guys were after Armstrong, but they never could prove anything.
Now he’s done, so nobody cares. This is all about USADA, another government office that should never exist, that has no authority in constitutional law, but has taken on dictatorial powers to persecute private citizens like Lance Armstrong, who broke not a LAW, but a sporting rule.
That Lance would avoid any races where USADA was sanctioned to verify athletes makes no difference, apparently.
So far as I can tell, the USADA has unlimited powers. They could decide that you are using drugs, could investigate you, could then try to get you fired from your employer. Sure, it sounds absurd, but that is the problem here — the absurdity of this USADA organization stepping far beyond it’s mandate, a mandate that already oversteps constitutional bounds.
But who cares that they spent millions. It’s not like the government doesn’t have money to burn, or needed the money spent persecuting Lance Armstrong to, say, defend our foreign consulates from terror attacks.