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I would welcome a woman president.
I just dont think Hillary Clinton is electable as a person, not as a woman. It is a shame - Jinnkai - that you categorise as a woman first and a politician second. I think this is an injustice.
But to get back on track... Marion Jones is a threat to nobody, her so-called crimes have harmed nobody (she certainly wasnt the only athlete juicing - a huge minority of them are)... as I said before, I believe her punishment is a symbolic and pagan action. She is being thrown on the fire to maintain the image that US track is basically clean.
If she must be punished for the alleged crime of perjury, it would be far more appropriate to issue a community service order...she should speak to young athletes and tell them how drugs caught up with her and didnt help in the end, so that they can learn from her example.... it is savagery to place a vulnerable young women in jail when she has not committed a violent crime. (the cheque fraud is completelt understood to be her partners activity, she was not criminally involved in it).
It is a pretty strange thing to hear someone make the accusation that seeking to defend a woman from this kind of violence is some kind of sexism. It is nothing to do with being patronising or paternalistic, it is to do with having a basic sense of right and wrong.
If Marion Jones stabbed someone, we'd be having a different argument - but she has not. She took steroids, which were pushed on her against her will by the US Athletics industry and the constant pressure applied on here, and lied about in an courtroom who's legality I have already challenged.
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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