Posted by Unique on January 17, 1997 at 16:24:30:
In Reply to: A FEW IDEAS-LETS DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT posted by S3 on January 17, 1997 at 11:50:56:
: 1. DECLARE OURSELVES A SPECIAL GROUP AFFLICTED WITH A MEDICAL CONDITION:
: This has worked for obese people, anorexic/bulemics, transexuals, and aids
: patients in their quest for access to drugs, as well as the research and
: development of new and better treatments. We are sort of like the overweight, and
: also anorexics, in that we suffer from an inferior body image. We are never satisfied
: with the way we look or with the amount of strength we posses no matter how big and
: strong we may get. We need special status, and special care to address this problem
: and would apply for a grant from the National Institute of Health to form a treatment
: program. Transexuals get govt funds to reverse their sexual characteristics based on
: the claim that they are a woman trapped in a man's body or vise versa. Well I'm a
: massive and cut to shreds guy trapped in a moderately muscular, and slightly overweight
: body- and instead of reversing my masculinity, I'd simply like to enhance it.
: Govt funded gyms could be set up, with a new classification of personal trainer
: experienced in physiology, but also acheiving a self satisfied mental state. Meanwhile,
: we use the FDA's personal importation ruling to legally order AS for personal use, in
: order to satiate our state of mental anguish, while working dillegently to overcome
: our affliction, and waiting endlessly for universities to develop the next generation,
: side effect free anabolic.
: WE FORM A NOT PROFIT RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE EXPLORATION OF SAFE SYNTHETIC ATHLETIC
: ENHANCING COMPOUNDS:We get a research grant from the Govt, hire brilliant people like
: Patrick Arnold to do the research. We base the need for govt funding on the fact that
: such a compound if discovered could enhance the capabilities of our nations armed forces,
: law enforcement officers, fire fighters, and other workers requiring great physical
: strength, speed and agility. As an adjunct, we are used by the institute as the control
: group using AS along with weighttraining to establish a baseline upon which the new
: compounds will be measured. They do this sort of thing to improve beef yeild of cattle,
: and pork, why not to improve human performance capability?
: WE FORM A RELIGION THAT REQUIRES WE WORK OUT, EAT RIGHT, AND ADMINISTER A.S. AS PART
: OF A RELIGIOUS PRACTICE OR WORSHIP SERVICE: This may seem ridiculous, but think of all
: the wacked out cults out there that escape govt taxes, and other laws just because
: the constitution calls for seperation of church and state, and freedom of religion. On
: a Dateline special about prison inmates taking advantage of the system by abusing their
: right to law suit, and religion- they talked about a guy who claimed to be a Satanist,
: and thus was required to participate in animal sacrifice on Sunday's. This sounds like
: BS but Dateline interviewed the Warden, and under a lawsuit induced court order the prison
: had to furnish this inmate with a knife and pigeon's on sunday, which he would mutilate
: and offer to Lucifer during his constitutionally guaranteed right to practice the
: religion of his choice. Nearly all world religions beleive that the body is the temple
: of the soul or spirit, and that we are held responsible by the creator for the proper
: upkeep and maintenance of our bodies. Nearly all religious books from the bible to the
: Koran, and even the writings of Buhdism, and Hinduism contain reference to proper observance
: of diet and hygeine, and in many cases refer to the use of plants, and elixers for
: the proper maintenance of bodily functions. We could research various religious texts
: for references of power, might, strength, etc, and base a religious philosophy around it-
: without infringing upon anyone's specific religious faith. The religion would simply call
: for an enhancing of physical appearance and capability in that it glorifies the creator. If
: we could gather enough empirical proof that A.S. are not only NOT HARMFUL when used
: responsibly, but can indeed physically and mentally benifit the user- we could easily
: incorporate them into the philosophy as a religious practice.
: Some of these ideas may seem absurd, but they've worked for other groups of people. The
: question is can and will we organize, and if we do, do we have the balls and the
: fortitude to stand in the face of an oppressive and powerful government, and their
: sheepish media following and fight for what we know is right. I'm going to open up a can
: of worms here but 60 years ago, the thought of a doctor intentionally destroying a
: fetus was offensive to all and thus illegal, but the minds of the government, the media
: and the populous shifted to a state where abortion clinics have full protection of
: the federal government behind them. Minds can be changed, it is a matter of summoning
: the right legal and monetary resources to surface the issues. The logic used for placing
: A.S on the controlled substance list is skewed and irrational. Id you were to carry the
: same logic forward to its conclusion owning a dog should require a doctors prescription.
: Follow me on this for a minute- Dog ownership brings certain physical and mental benifit
: to the owner, but at great medical risk. Dog dander causes allergic reaction and sometimes
: life threatening asthma in humans, parasites carried by the dog like intestinal
: worms and lice can be transmitted to humans, and fleas that live on the animal can
: inflict bites that also trigger allergic skin reaction in humans. Perhaps most importantly
: Dog bites are one of the most commonly occuring accidents for which people seek medical
: treatment every year, and in some cases involving sever attacks or maulings have resulted
: in death.The american public has been trained to accept what it reads and sees on tv.
: 60 minutes says that young athletes are dropping dead from A.S. every day so Joe and Betty
: Citizen start beleiving that A.S. are evil. If the issues start to surface in a public
: forum, and the statistics show that the same ratio of incidence of tumors, heart attacks,
: stroke, etc occur in the general populous of that which takes A.S. and that famous
: people like Lyle Alzado may have gotten a brain tumor without A.S. just because some
: forty year olds just get brain tumors sometimes. There could be a shift in thinking. John
: Stossel did a special report on TV the other week called Junk Science- exposing scientific
: myths created around Silicon breast implants causing fybromalgia, Crack babies being
: forever doomed to lives of addiction, and the EPA spending millions to clean up
: supposedely hazardous wast materials- all were exposed as the scientific community
: skewing statistics or ommitting information that showed the stats to be meaningless.
: I bet a religious cult of bodybuilder taking A.S. while chanting MAAASSSIIIVVVVE,
: MAAAAASSSSIIIVVE would get some air time with Stossel.
: Feedback and Other Ideas please: There are all kinds of seedy lawyers in Washington,
: who know their shit, and would work for free on something like this just for the media
: exposure.
: S3
: "Steroid Evangelist or Government Anarchist"
It is ashame the state of affairs in this country. Are we really free. If it were not
for our high standard of living would anybody come to this country for all of its "freedom".
You, S3, are so right! If the gov't made vitamin C illegal and propagandized it, then over
time people "blind sheep" would believe that vitamin C was evil. I can see it now--on a
street corner someone saying, "Hey buddy, got some C for $100 a pop. Sound ludicrous
doesn't it. Well, its ludicrous to me that AS are illegal in the same way. I come across
so many people with real physical problems that could greatly benefit from AS therapy.
Maybe that's why they were made illegal--became too cheap. Anadrol, for instance, was
replaced by the much more expensive erythropoieten. Funny thing--now Oxandralone is back
on the market but at a price that's so high only a person with insurance could afford it.
It's all a bunch of bullcrap if you ask me.
thanx
Unique