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Susan Westemeyer said:And American politics really have nothing to do with this story, so let's get back to cycling, Belgium and Boonen, please.
actually they do... i think politics are very relevant to almost any discussion, your political views, or the country you live in can have an enormous influence on your opinions..
steel4ever wins a prize, im not sure what yet, but something for being the person that got what i was hinting at with my "screwed up country that endorses the death penalty and locks people up for anything comment", it was an apparantly too subtle dig at the us..
i hinted at this with my earlier post regarding american pipe smoking crack head, v cocaine socialite.. although i jest i had a point.. not in the reality of drug users, but in the reality of peoples perceptions.. in europe, certain countries especailly drug use of certain drugs is met with a fairly nonchalent shrug, cannabis, cocaine, yeh, people take em, so what.. we dont really lock people up for things like that... america is seems unless you are whiter than white, you are probably going to be incarcerated during your lifetime for something.. the american justice system and system in general seems a little less tolerant of things..
anyway.. my point is.. reading thorugh the posts, and the difference in opinion seeming to be divided into the a) ban him for years or b) for god sake it was a bit of coke camps, i was thinking that maybe opinion is divided actually by which side of the atlantic you happen to live on.. Europeans, or people from certain parts of europe.. "coke.. yeh ok.. so do a course tom, and then everyone get over it.. " other parts of the world "ban him, 2 years, lock him up, castrate him and call him vera"
am i in trouble now for being political..
can i just point out before anyone gets upset that my whiter than white comment related to someone who was "clean and pure and without any sin or criminal activity", i was in no way making the point that americans only jail people from non-white backgrounds..