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I've been banned. Farewell to NASA
Posted By: Tony Foster (c74-196-41-33.dh.suddenlink.net)
Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2008, @ 5:10 p.m.
This is what I assume because I can't get on the forum...First of all I want to thank some of the great lifters in NASA that have helped me and befriended me: Terry Tucker, Greg Alvarado, Allred, Sammarrons, Steve Cyranowski (I know we've had our differences before but you are a good man) and others that have frequented the Hereford meets... They were fun and a growing experience for me...Some may question why I did what I did and I can only say I believe in freedom to express your concerns, freedom of speech, without being banned from a federation, or any organization for that matter....You know, we are hearing so many details in this situation that we've gotten lost in the forest and are not really looking at the whole picture...Let's break it down. Terry questioned NASA's drug testing policies at the Pro meet because the organization did not do it the way they said they were going to do it, months earlier...He questioned the integrity of the process. Who cares when he questioned Rich about it...I noticed people are saying well you should have said something at the meet...If Terry decided to question it after the meet, who gives a darn... He may have had reasons to wait...Maybe, he spent all that money and his lifters were prepped to go...The time frame in which he decided to question Rich should not be up for debate...What's up for debate is he questioned Rich, and Rich would never face him man to man. He sent Job and others...Terry was locked out of the forum before he knew what hit him. It doesn't matter when he decided to question Rich about it...What matters, and what people are missing, is he was banned for QUESTIONING Rich about it...As we found out from Terry's post, the Hogs did not even vote on the drug testing anyways as some have said...What I"m saying here is WAKE UP people, it doesn't matter when he questioned Rich...Here's a guy who had a problem with the organization not doing what they said would do, and he got banned for speaking his mind...This is not NAZI germany??? There are people here getting so swept up into the details that they missed the two by four hittng them right on the head. I also don't support Peters because if you read the posts...Like I said you have to READ them to get a grip on this...Some people are walking in here and at the NASA forum not having read the posts...Terry told Rich specifically, I don't want any problems, I will walk away peacefully. If you watched the trend, Rich kept pounding him, and pounding him trying to lobby support; all along while Tucker is trying to walk away, professionally. Rich and his close friends literally obliterated Terry's character on the forum and I couldn't believe that more NASA guys were not speaking up..Yet Terry did nothing...After two weeks of the B.S. Terry finally spoke up...Read it for yourself, and you will see that Terry wanted to just walk...Rich couldn't let it go. And now that some lifters have tried to take up for Terry, or at bare minimum like I did, state there are two sides to a story, they are now branded child molesters, liberal fruitcakes, adulterers, and steroid users who are now banned from the organization....Are you kidding me??? We supported you Rich...Maybe we didn't have a lot of money, but we said nothing but good things about NASA...
Some of you want to know why I posted what I did, I don't believe in character assasinations on other lifters, I believe in freedom of speech, and I don't handle dictatorships to well...Rich, you forget, that the lifters are what made NASA great, not just you....
I noticed that some of the lifters are going to go with the grain. It's not popular to take a stand, but I tell you some people are going to get you swept up in the details of this instead of looking at it for what it is...Some of you should have stood up to management as well, but you are afraid to do it...Can I blame you, not really....I got banned for doing it..Anybody who questions Rich will go down in flames, and then you become labeled a criminal...I'd rather have some courage on this thing, though...At least I could sleep at night...There's still some of you that have not gotten Terry's side on this, or called him...You choose to believe Rich blindly...People aren't perfect...I heard the AAU is pretty solid, I think I may check it out...One thing is for sure, I'm not going to let this stop my training..I'm on my way to a 700 deadlift...
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