Federal prosecutors are continuing their railroading of Barry Bonds. The guardians of Americans’ safety have filed documents in which they objected to a federal probation officer’s recommendation that Bonds receive probation for “obstructing justice.”
Bonds was convicted of giving a grand jury evasive testimony based on the fact that he provided a rambling answer when asked if his trainer, Greg Anderson, had ever given him any substance that had to be injected. Bonds’ response included the fact that he was a “celebrity child with a famous father.”
The jury did not find Bonds guilty of lying to the grand jury when he claimed that he had never received an injection by anyone other than his doctor or that he knowingly took steroids and human growth hormone.
Legal experts took the position that the obstruction charge was inextricably tied to the other charges. The key is that they agreed the obstruction charge could not stand alone.
Barry Bonds didn’t lie. If he had simply responded with a “yes” or “no” to the question instead of giving a meandering answer when asked if Anderson had ever injected him, the government’s claim would have been even more ridiculous than it already is.
If Bonds confirmed that Anderson had injected him, it would not reveal the nature of the substance. It is not unusual for Americans to not ask what is in their injection.
Tell me, what ingredients were in your flu shot?
But in America, the justice system, contrary to what we have been taught, is not blind. Neither is it consistent.
In 16 states, medical marijuana is legal. The federal government says state laws do not protect growers from federal prosecution. Doctors prescribe, patients improve or are cured, but the rulers object. Nothing is more disingenuous.
The government prevents states from providing individuals from certain medicines, in arrogant acts of power, have classified as illegal drugs, but it encourages the illegal drug industry.
According to many sources, including former CIA agents indicate that the government “might have been involved” in drug trafficking. The purpose, in Afghanistan, Mexico and Venezuela is to obtain intelligence information. In return, the government allows criminal activities to continue.
Barry Bonds is an uppity black man who is not especially fond of authority, which does not sit well with many individuals. He is not an especially nice person according to many who know him.
A juror asked him about Greg Anderson.
“With all the money you make, have you ever thought of maybe building him a mansion or something?”
Bonds replied, “One, I’m black. And I’m keeping my money. And there’s not too many rich black people in this world. And I’m keeping my money. There’s more wealthy Asian people and Caucasian and white. There ain’t that many rich black people. And I ain’t giving my money up. That’s why.”
It doesn’t matter if Barry Bonds is hated, despised or loved. All that matters is whether he obstructed justice. More than a few Americans don’t trust their rulers.