All charges against Bonds should be dropped!
November 24, 2008 by Tom Ferda
Judge Susan Illston dropped three of the charges against ex-San Francisco Giants slugger, Barry Bonds, 
lightening the load of perjury charges he will be facing in his upcoming March trial.That’s a decent start but it’s time to drop the remaining 10 charges as well, unless the government charges everyone else who has outright lied in front of Congressional committees.
Bonds has been singled out, period!
In March 2005, Rafael Palmeiro pointed his finger at a Congressional committee to emphasis his statement and said these words, “I have never used steroids. Period!”
In a blood test that followed later that season, the potent anabolic steroid, stanozolol, was detected.
Doesn’t that indicate Palmeiro’s statement to the committee may have been a lie?
Questions followed and Palmiero was quick to use the name-dropping defense. Political contribution records show that on July 23, 2003 and August 17, 2004, the ex-Texas Ranger slugger donated $2,000 each time to the Bush/Cheney campaign.
Battling the media’s direct hammering of questions about the statements he made in front of Congress, Palmeiro said he was “a personal friend of President George Bush”.
Shortly after, the Palmeiro scenario was quickly brushed under the rug.
Roger Clemens had a similar response as Palmeiro. When Clemens was questioned under oath by a Congressional committee about steroid use, he responded, “I know the ex-President Bush and he was able to find me when I was hunting so . . . ”
What is with the name-dropping! It has no relevance whatsoever to whether or not these guys took a needle full of illegal substances in the glutes from a trainer.
Mindy McCready recently was interviewed about her affair with Clemens. Her statements as well as photos of a party at Jose Canseco’s home all contradict Clemens’ testimony.
Hard not to wonder what the hold-up is on pressing charges on these other players who have appeared in front of Congress and had questionable interviews.
It’s time to charge all of these players or drop all the charges against Bonds.
Copyright © 2008 – Sports Climax
Bonds choose the wrong place to lie. A-Rod lied to Katie Couric, not a crime. Palmeiro lied to an exploratory Congressional committee and I’m pretty sure if he was on the stand, he wouldn’t do it again.
Bonds lied during a criminal investigation. Notice how none of the other BALCO guys (namely Giambi) haven’t been charged. Why? They didn’t lie to the feds on the stand. It’s pretty simple. The charges against Bonds actually have nothing to do with steroids or cheating the game…it has to do with lying under oath during a criminal investigation.
And I’m pretty sure the feds have launched a pretty significant perjury investigation against Clemens…the Feds have something like a 99% conviction rate because they wait until they know they got the guy before they formerly press charges.
Hey, I’m clean.