Pound agrees to meet BALCO boss

The problem I have with Pound is that he begins with the assumption that you are guilty, attempts to build circumstantial evidence and then says, prove it wrong. The other problem with the guy is that he loves to go after Americans, but when a Canadian was caught, Pound started making excuses for the guy. It showed, to me, that he really isn’t too concerned about the issue of steroids.

 

So, if you know little about the NHL or its players why you you be either surprised or not surprised about the possible "infestation" of PED's in hockey?

His comments about 30% of players being dirty were pulled directly out of his ass. He had no proof then and he has no proof now--as was routinely pointed out.

Dick Pound's comments on hockey alone qualify him as a fraud and a charlatan.

This is a guy whose only goal in life is to get as much media face time as possible.

Like I said, he's like the columnist who throws shit against the wall hoping some of it will stick .

 

Dick Pound, financial guy, was placed in charge of an Olympics off-shoot called WADA and he did everything in his power to grow that organization's business and make it seem important. His objective quickly became the control all of the drug-testing in sports, worldwide. So he said and did anything expedient to that objective. Truth, law and people's reputations were merely obstacles in that pursuit.

 

No, but give him an armband and he's close enough for government work.
As to your position on how secure civil liberties are today, well, I'll assume you've been asleep for 10 years or so and leave it at that, except to say that, while they might be more secure than they were in 1907, they're a helluva lot more tenuous than they were in 1977, and the 'war on drugs" -- of which Pound's latest crusade is merely the most recent iteration -- is a big part of the reason why they're not.