Liberalism has targeted football, after hammering baseball into compliance. It began with the concussions, and now the federal government is targeting the trainers, and team management. The police-state actions by the federal government is being masked with good intentions (dark tyranny always appears as an angel of light), and arguments and explanations you just can't argue against. If prescription drugs are being abused, how can you do nothing about it?
On the surface we are told the government is protecting the players, protecting society, and going after some very bad people. Much of that may, on the surface, be true. But, this is not about what is on the surface. The reality of the targeting of football by the federal government is all about what they really want, and that goes much, much deeper.
From a constitutional point of view, the Federal Government has no authority over drugs, it is a local issue. The Federal Government seized their authority over drugs by deciding to pass laws regardless of the Constitution. They had enough sense to use the Article V. amendment process regarding alcohol during prohibition, but yet the politicians did not use the amendment process to ask the States for the authority over drugs when the Federal Government decided to begin drug enforcement through federal drug laws.
Now, the Federal Government has decided to specifically target the NFL. I believe liberal left progressive touchy-feely, group-think, communal, communitarian collectivists are attempting to wear down the NFL, force the league to be more peaceful, and "safe." This is not about drugs, it is about taking down the NFL bit by bit, piece by piece.
The Federal Government treats the NFL like it is an out of control epidemic, yet they didn't want to create hysteria over Ebola. Football, with all of its violence, is much worse than a disease that liquifies your insides, I guess.
Football has become politics, and the liberal left has decided the popular sport must be reined in, which in the end will destroy the American Tradition, or at least how it is played. From Ray Rice to Incognito to the gay football player the Rams tried and failed. Everything is a lab for social engineering to these people, be it the military, or America's beloved sport of football. They must inject their elite ruling class authoritarianism because only they know what is best for everyone.
Yes, Ray Rice did a bad thing. Yeah, in the civilian world Incognito's actions and words would be frowned upon by the political correctness mob. Sure, we ought not care if a football player likes being snapped in the butt with a towel a little more than the other players. . . but is the way to create acceptance to prance it around, and then demand everyone be good with it, or else?
Football is a manly game, and that is just not acceptable to the liberal left, whose goal is to make everything gender-neutral. They want everyone using the same bathrooms, and for any reminder of the differences between male and female to be hidden or eliminated. The masculinity of the game of football, the culture on manliness that inhabits the game, for lack of a better word, pisses off the liberal left establishment. It is there goal to feminize the game, or destroy it if it refuses to be more girly.
To handle the pain of the sometimes brutal game of football, often medications are used to help the warriors cope. That is a reality. Right, wrong, or in between, there is pain, and meds are used to ease it. Are trainers not going through the right hoops to give them? Perhaps. If the unconstitutional regulations regarding these drugs were not so stringent on the NFL, perhaps the feds wouldn't have a reason to claim they have the need to be raiding what they deem to be "illegal ball clubs."
The Federal Government has made the regulations so intense that it handcuffs everyone, and then they pounce when the teams slip up.
In the long run, as I said earlier, this is not about pain killers. Never mind the war on women, this is a war on football, and a war on masculinity.
We don't hear about how crime in Chicago, and murder in cities like Chicago, cities that are dominated by liberal left politicians, are tearing apart our country. But, if an NFL player does something, suddenly the country is going to Hell in a hand basket, and it is all football's fault.
Target acquired.
It's as if the leftist establishment believes Americans didn't realize domestic violence is wrong until Ray Rice did it. Then, it's an epidemic. Now, after the feds have targeted the NFL on prescription drug abuse, suddenly the media will proclaim it is an American epidemic. . . when they didn't care about it much before. Just watch.
Does the NFL have a culture problem? Of course. You take these young men that have never experienced the realities of life, you put a uniform on them, throw them a lot of money, make them millionaires before they are even able to attend their five year high school reunion, and then you wonder why they can't act like anything less than animals. I get it. It's not all of them, but a lot of them fall into this NFL culture mess. Their bread and butter is performing on a stage, and they are going to do all they can to be the best product, and the teams are going to do all they can to make sure the performer can perform. Therefore, when things start to hurt, in comes the pain relief. Pick the drug, any drug. If it eases pain, it is present in the NFL.
Do they hurt? Yes. Do they get concussions? Yes. And each of these players knew fully what they were getting into when they signed that contract. The trainers know it, too, and are willing to do what they need to in order to make sure these players get on the field.
I am not condoning, or condemning. I am just telling you how it is.
So how do we alleviate the problems that exist in the culture of professional football? The Federal Government believes the way to do it is to seek and destroy. Target the NFL, and then demand that they follow liberal left policies and agendas, so that the game becomes a pinker, more friendly girly version of itself.
But is it truly as bad as the liberal left makes it out to be? Is the NFL truly a cesspool of criminals, drug abusers and wife beaters?
It turns out that crime in the NFL is not as bad as the percentage in the general population. Most of these players are good people. Statistics show that the crime rate in the NFL is less than half of that of the general population. The NFL's internal enforcement, and the morality of the players, is much better than the liberal left would have you believe.
For the liberal leftists, that just won't do, so, they decided it is time to seek out another alleged dark underbelly of the NFL, so that the campaign to destroy football can continue.
Federal drug agents conducted surprise inspections of National Football League team medical staffs as part of an ongoing investigation into prescription drug abuse in the league. The raids included bag searches (was there a warrant?) and questioning of team doctors (was there a warrant?) by Drug Enforcement Administration agents in cooperation with the Transportation Security Administration. The questioning and probably illegal searches and seizures (see Constitution, Amendment 4) was based on the suspicion that NFL teams dispense drugs illegally to keep players on the field in violation of the Controlled Substances Act.
Apparently, the federal government heard a rumor that football players use pain killers, perhaps without prescriptions or labels, by trainers rather than physicians, and that has just got to stop.
Unconstitutional Federal law (it is up to the States to regulate drugs based on the needs of their unique individual populations) prohibits anyone but a physician or nurse practitioner from distributing prescription drugs, and they must meet a myriad of regulations for acquiring, storing, labeling and transporting them. It is also illegal for a physician to distribute prescription drugs outside of his geographic area of practice (though you would think there would be an exception for team doctors that travel with teams). And it is illegal for trainers to dispense, or even handle, controlled substances in any way, which makes not sense to me, since the trainers are the primary medical help offered to these players.
NFL vice president Jeff Pash said, “The whole issue of pain meds is a big, important issue in our society well outside the NFL . . . it is something our doctors are looking at.”
Staffers with NFL teams who may have access to prescription medications should not have access, according to the federal government. . . especially trainers, who regularly treat players’ ailments and injuries.
I wonder how they expect the trainers to treat the ailments and injuries? Don't teams have doctors on their staffs? If not, why not?
The reality is, playing the game causes pain. The law regarding the unique culture of football needs to be reasonable. The federal government targeting a specific business, like the NFL, and then going after them without, I am assuming, specific warrants, is a dangerous precedent when it comes to governmental enforcement allowances.
The DEA says the rules for prescribing and storing these meds require that they be kept in special lockers. Protections regarding these drugs should be in place. I am not arguing against that. But have we gotten so out of whack that we are going to allow the federal government to target, illegal search and seize, and seek to destroy professional football because of a political agenda?
Officials tell us, “Doctors and nurse practitioners are held to very high standards when handling and dispensing controlled substances. Prescription drug diversion, abuse and addiction has skyrocketed in the U.S.”
Yet, these are the same liberal leftists who want to legalize marijuana without any drug restrictions because it helps to alleviate the pain in some medical cases.
The reality is, playing the game causes pain. The law regarding the unique culture of football needs to be reasonable. The federal government targeting a specific business, like the NFL, and then going after them without, I am assuming, specific warrants, is a dangerous precedent when it comes to governmental enforcement allowances.
The DEA says the rules for prescribing and storing these meds require that they be kept in special lockers. Protections regarding these drugs should be in place. I am not arguing against that. But have we gotten so out of whack that we are going to allow the federal government to target, illegal search and seize, and seek to destroy professional football because of a political agenda?
Officials tell us, “Doctors and nurse practitioners are held to very high standards when handling and dispensing controlled substances. Prescription drug diversion, abuse and addiction has skyrocketed in the U.S.”
Yet, these are the same liberal leftists who want to legalize marijuana without any drug restrictions because it helps to alleviate the pain in some medical cases.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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