In a Free Market Frankenstein (Free Market Fundamentalist) society it is always the individuals who are imprisoned and shamed for their crimes. Never the corporations or banks or Wall Street. Adrian Peterson and the NFL are a good example of this immoral dichotomy. Peterson was indicted for using a switch to punish his son. Many men/women from the South and the Islands will attest to their being punished by their parents with a switch. In my house,when my brothers and I were to be punished, my mother had us pull our pants down and go to the bathroom and bend over. We stood awaiting the sting of the belt that was sure to come. Studies have grown showing that this type of child punishment does more harm to children than good. You would have been hard-pressed to get these facts through to my mother. Spare the rod, spoil the child. So it says in the Bible. I never realized that there were psychological effects, from taking such a beating as a child, that could affect my own psyche. I had not ever realize it till I came across literature on the subject. The point being that this is an educational issue. And a cultural one. It should be treated as such primarily instead of the knee-jerk reaction to throw a man/woman in jail. Which punishment is more cruel? Petersons disciplining of his child or the state throwing him in jail? I would say the latter. As for the National Football League, many of their players had been suffering serious brain damage soon after retiring at very young ages. These players notified the NFL of their conditions. The NFL denied for years that their was any correlation between the onset of brain damage and the players NFL careers. Public relations called for dodge, evade, and deny. Even after many NFL players were revealed by doctors to be suffering from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) The NFLs stance remained firm. Paul Tagliabue, the NFL Commissioner at the time called it a media creation. He set up a research committee whose main job was to place doubt in the public as to the validity of the ex-NFL football players CTE claims. When Roger Goodell, the recent NFL Commissioner, was presented with uncontrovertible evidence by Dr. Julian Bailes, showing slide after slide, each showing the same telltale signs of CTE on ex-NFL players brains, Goodell was typically evasive. Im not a doctor, but you have to look at their entire medical history. To look at something that is isolated without looking at their entire medical history, I think is irresponsible, Goodell announced. So allowing players to play a game which uncontrovertibly causes brain damage is peachy keen? Teenagers playing football have develped CTE and been brain damaged at very young ages. Yet you will not hear any outcry from the media nor the fans of this. Big money making operations like the NFL are exempt from condemnation by the law and the American public. Their is no scrutiny done of their misdeeds. No outcry from the general public. No outward display of disgust from the fans as to the NFLs diabolical actions. The NFL, like Wall Street, the banks, and corporations have reached that contemporary American stage hwre they become a part of the Untouchables. The Too Big To Fails. Punishment is for the individual. Are we ready for some football?
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 12:32:33 +0000
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