Hmmmmm said:What a sad world you live in. So, recovering addicts and alcoholics should not be working in helping with rehabilitation? If they lied, cheated, and stole they should fess up, work with the authorities, and then just go away quietly? So change should only come from people who were not involved in the wrongdoing in the first place? How the hell is change going to take place? Some of our wisest, smartest, most contributing members of society led less than stellar lives (according to the less than stellar life guage ) before stepping up to the plate and for some reason or another allowing themselves to change and lead a different lifestyle.
You are absolutely right - let them contribute to society in a meaningful and impactful way - just not in cycling. Take many of the insider trading cases for example (or a lot of other professions for that matter) - if you engage in securities fraud, you are often barred from that profession for life. There are lots of meaningful ways to contribute to society - but you have lost the privilege of being a legitimate voice or influence in cycling in the long term. Giving them legitimacy is a continued insult to those of us who never gave in to their "lifestyle". Nothing short of that will clean up cycling and sport in general.