So Barry Bonds Didn't Obstruct Justice

     Of course, it won't matter to baseball as the facts have never mattered for the steroids witch hunt:

     "Baseball slugger Barry Bonds' conviction of obstructing justice during a government probe into steroid use was overturned by a U.S. appeals court on Wednesday, but the legal victory likely will not remove the tarnish attached to Bonds' on-the-field accomplishments."

    "The case involved testimony Bonds, 50, gave to a grand jury in 2003 about whether he used steroids to help him bash more long balls. Bonds told grand jurors about his childhood when asked whether his former trainer, Greg Anderson, had given him self-injectable substances."

The slugger was convicted on one obstruction charge in 2011, and the jury deadlocked on three perjury counts. His sentence of two years of probation and 30 days of home confinement was put on hold pending his appeal.

     https://sports.yahoo.com/news/appeals-court-throws-barry-bonds-conviction-steroids-case-205449823--mlb.html

     No it 'won't remove the tarnish' as the writer, Dan Levine, smugly hastens to add. However, it does underscore the hypocrisy of this 'tarnish' that is wholly insensible to facts. Basically Bud Selig and the baseball writers have decided that Bonds must be an eternal pariah and facts are not allowed to have any say in this decision. 

    If the obstruction charge had been upheld the scolds would have all been doing their self-righteous jigs in the street about what a bad actor Bonds is and how he sullied the game. However, this didn't happen so all they can say is 'Well, it doesn't matter anyway.'

   That it matters if it's the verdict they want but not the verdict they don't want shows the hypocrisy of this whole exercise. 

    When Roger Clemens beat charges that he lied to Congress the steroid scolds dismissed that too. 

    The fact still remains that neither Bonds or Clemens, nor Sosa, nor Mark McGwire  have ever failed a drug test. But this doesn't matter. The steroid scolds just know what they know based on their own inferences from what was in Jose Canseco's book and that's enough to build an unimpeachable case. 

   I guess Bonds knew what he was doing when he said this:

   "Asked if Anderson ever gave him a substance that required a syringe, Bonds answered: "I was a celebrity child, not just in baseball by my own instincts. I became a celebrity child with a famous father. I just don't get into other people's business because of my father's situation."

   He was smart enough not to lie. 

   P.S. Not surprisingly, no 'libertarians' come to Bonds' defense nor of these other great players unjustly persecuted. Their silence speaks volumes. They don't care about liberty, they are just conservatives by another name and what conservatives care about is preserving traditional power. 

   http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/04/on-americans-and-libertarianism.html

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