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DEL.ICIO.USIsakson: It could be time to look at steroid use in pro-wrestling
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Looks like U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson is circling the pro-wrestling ring.
In the aftermath of the murder-suicide of Chris Benoit, his wife and son, the Associated Press is reporting today that Isakson has “instructed his staff to begin gathering information on the issue to determine if a hearing before the Senate Health Committee — on which he sits — might be warranted.
Isakson said his main concern is steroid abuse.
“I’m not going to start speculating on federal regulation of wrestling,” he told the AP. “The issue is anabolic steroids, which are a significant problem and are known to cause significant difficulties. It’s a health issue that’s appropriate for us to discuss, regardless of the profession.”
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By A WWE Fan
July 1, 2007 10:45 AM | Link to this
I would just like to say that even though what happened to Nancy and Daniel was horrible and senseless what has happened since the incident is much worse. People keep saying “roid” rage, but if it was indead a rage why was there a bible placed next to Nancy and Daniel? Why weren’t they beaten? What I have read since the traggedy does not appear to be in anyway rage of any sort. I have watched wrestling since I was a child and now my child watches it. I would not change that fact either, nor will I change it. We still watch WWE. I admire Vince for what he has done to try and come back the best way he can after such a tragedy. However, when an actor dies in a questionable fashion they don’t get this type of scrutiny. So as a Chis Benoit fan and a WWE fan I say enough is enough. What happened was a tragedy that no one really knows what Chris was thinking or will ever know, so let everyone greive their way and try to put this behind us. Chris was a good man by everyone’s standards and he lived a good “dash”. I am not or will not judge his life by the terrible tragedy that ended his and his familly’s life.
By Lee
July 1, 2007 11:38 AM | Link to this
Frankly, Johnny Isaccson, I think this is a smokescreen to take people’s attention away from the fact that you and your running buddy Chambliss were behind the ILLEGAL ALIEN CRIMINAL AMNESTY BILL.
Sorta hurts to get your hand slapped, don’t it.
By Big Al
July 1, 2007 12:22 PM | Link to this
Come on Johnny, you are becoming a “bandwagon” driver, just jump on board the next hot topic and put it before some committee to make you look connected to the people. Hey Johnny Georgia’s in a drought, why not take that to a committee. I have no confidence in you anymore. As the WWE fan said, it does hurt to get you’re hand slapped don’t it.
By Byron
July 1, 2007 12:40 PM | Link to this
Blaming anabolic steroids (which, by the way, includes the testosterone and DHT that is naturally produced in the bodies of male and females alike - duh!) for a senseless act is the equivalent of simply stating “the devil made him do it.”
Is it asking too much to accept the simple fact that humans are complex organisms, and the cause of this type of crazy act is the result of a complexity that CANNOT be explained away by the simple, oft-parroted “‘roid rage” explanation? I mean, out of all the alleged users of steroids - legal or otherwise - how many have been accused, let alone convicted, of murdering ANYONE, their own family included?
Recently, the sensational, but totally fabricated “story” in the mainstream media about pre-pubescent teen girls that are using anabolic steroids in “epidemic proportions” should scare the hell out of all rational adults in this country (and I’m not making this up!). Obviously the Weekly World News is gonna have to step up their Batboy stories in order to compete with the fiction that passes for mainstream news!
Folks, please remember - no matter how much law enforcement officials, bureacrats, politicians, and the media keep trying to make it so - steroids ain’t nearly the problem they are portrayed to be (at least not in the way that is routinely presented by those gullible and ignorant “nabnobs of negatism”).
There are tons of scientifically supported evidence that more people using legally prescribed medications - such as antidepressants - have killed more folks in a year than the total of all of the ALLEGED cases of ‘roid rage-induced killings throughout the history of this country!
By Byron
July 1, 2007 12:40 PM | Link to this
Blaming anabolic steroids (which, by the way, includes the testosterone and DHT that is naturally produced in the bodies of male and females alike - duh!) for a senseless act is the equivalent of simply stating “the devil made him do it.”
Is it asking too much to accept the simple fact that humans are complex organisms, and the cause of this type of crazy act is the result of a complexity that CANNOT be explained away by the simple, oft-parroted “‘roid rage” explanation? I mean, out of all the alleged users of steroids - legal or otherwise - how many have been accused, let alone convicted, of murdering ANYONE, their own family included?
Recently, the sensational, but totally fabricated “story” in the mainstream media about pre-pubescent teen girls that are using anabolic steroids in “epidemic proportions” should scare the hell out of all rational adults in this country (and I’m not making this up!). Obviously the Weekly World News is gonna have to step up their Batboy stories in order to compete with the fiction that passes for mainstream news!
Folks, please remember - no matter how much law enforcement officials, bureacrats, politicians, and the media keep trying to make it so - steroids ain’t nearly the problem they are portrayed to be (at least not in the way that is routinely presented by those gullible and ignorant “nabnobs of negatism”).
There are tons of scientifically supported evidence that more people using legally prescribed medications - such as antidepressants - have killed more folks in a year than the total of all of the ALLEGED cases of ‘roid rage-induced killings throughout the history of this country!
By Byron
July 1, 2007 12:41 PM | Link to this
Blaming anabolic steroids (which, by the way, includes the testosterone and DHT that is naturally produced in the bodies of male and females alike - duh!) for a senseless act is the equivalent of simply stating “the devil made him do it.”
Is it asking too much to accept the simple fact that humans are complex organisms, and the cause of this type of crazy act is the result of a complexity that CANNOT be explained away by the simple, oft-parroted “‘roid rage” explanation? I mean, out of all the alleged users of steroids - legal or otherwise - how many have been accused, let alone convicted, of murdering ANYONE, their own family included?
Recently, the sensational, but totally fabricated “story” in the mainstream media about pre-pubescent teen girls that are using anabolic steroids in “epidemic proportions” should scare the hell out of all rational adults in this country (and I’m not making this up!). Obviously the Weekly World News is gonna have to step up their Batboy stories in order to compete with the fiction that passes for mainstream news!
Folks, please remember - no matter how much law enforcement officials, bureacrats, politicians, and the media keep trying to make it so - steroids ain’t nearly the problem they are portrayed to be (at least not in the way that is routinely presented by those gullible and ignorant “nabnobs of negatism”).
There are tons of scientifically supported evidence that more people using legally prescribed medications - such as antidepressants - have killed more folks in a year than the total of all of the ALLEGED cases of ‘roid rage-induced killings throughout the history of this country!
By Gregory Reese
July 1, 2007 12:43 PM | Link to this
Blaming anabolic steroids (which, by the way, includes the testosterone and DHT that is naturally produced in the bodies of male and females alike - duh!) for a senseless act is the equivalent of simply stating “the devil made him do it.”
Is it asking too much to accept the simple fact that humans are complex organisms, and the cause of this type of crazy act is the result of a complexity that CANNOT be explained away by the simple, oft-parroted “‘roid rage” explanation? I mean, out of all the alleged users of steroids - legal or otherwise - how many have been accused, let alone convicted, of murdering ANYONE, their own family included?
Recently, the sensational, but totally fabricated “story” in the mainstream media about pre-pubescent teen girls that are using anabolic steroids in “epidemic proportions” should scare the hell out of all rational adults in this country (and I’m not making this up!). Obviously the Weekly World News is gonna have to step up their Batboy stories in order to compete with the fiction that passes for mainstream news!
Folks, please remember - no matter how much law enforcement officials, bureacrats, politicians, and the media keep trying to make it so - steroids ain’t nearly the problem they are portrayed to be (at least not in the way that is routinely presented by those gullible and ignorant “nabnobs of negatism”).
There are tons of scientifically supported evidence that more people using legally prescribed medications - such as antidepressants - have killed more folks in a year than the total of all of the ALLEGED cases of ‘roid rage-induced killings throughout the history of this country!
By stacy
July 1, 2007 1:04 PM | Link to this
This getting old the media taking a tragedy and making it into another drawn out affair. He did the worst thing one human can do to another, take a life. It was even worse when he took the life of a child, someone he was supposed to protect. Leave these people alone let them be buried. This is enough.
By BackfromIraq
July 1, 2007 1:10 PM | Link to this
Lee, mega dittos. As $100 million of drugs was ceased by US Customs agents at supervised points of entry on the Southwest border in the last seven (7)weeks. This has been the norm. Individual lives and families are destroyed. Gangs have having turf fights killing anyone in their way and our Senator Isakson wants to investigate steroid use by professional wrestlers. Shamless, absolutely shameless. That man has no shame and that is why he needs to go!
By Howard
July 1, 2007 1:43 PM | Link to this
Sir…while I have no doubts that Chris Benoit used steroids (heck…what pro wrestler has not and is not?) but to outwardly label this a ‘roid rage’ crime is a bit premature. Does anyone remember the name John Emile List? He was the straight-laced, bespectacled, nerdish-looking guy who was a God-fearing man and raised his wife and kids to toe the straight line at all times. then one day he snapped over financial pressures and slaughtered them and arranged them, ala Benoit,on the floor in their NJ home. He even made himself dinner after killing them all, had a good night’s sleep in that house and then the next day took off…after leaving some rambling religious-laced note about his family being in a better place, he was just doing them a favor, etc. Unlike Benoit, he didn’t kill himself (probably didn’t have the guts). Fortunately AMW and John Walsh helped catch the creep after 17 years. And you know something?? List didn’t have an illegal drug in his body.
By Eleanor
July 1, 2007 1:57 PM | Link to this
The only comment I have - anyone that thinks there is not permanent damage from steroids - even though it may not show up until later in life - Lyle Alzado was very adamant before he died that his health problems, which caused his death, was from steroids. As for living people - ask Lex Luger and Superstar Billy Graham - just to name a couple - what steroids does to your body. Steroid abuse is rampant in pro sports, we have young people who look up to these people, and will think pumping your body full of steroids is great. Sorry folks, I disagree. And if it means investigations into steroid abuse - then I am all for it.
By Joe
July 1, 2007 3:21 PM | Link to this
I used steroids for about 8 weeks 15 years ago. I was injecting 100MG of Deca Durabolin (nondralone decanote) once a week and taking 1 Blue 5MG tablet of Dianabol each day. By most standards this is a very small amount.
I quit after 8 weeks becasue of the insomnia it caused and the “roid rage”. I would be calm one moment, and then something would set me off and I would go ballistic, even knowing it was the roids causing it, I couldn’t control it. It is scary to think what massive quanities these athletes take and what it does to them.
By deegee
July 2, 2007 10:06 AM | Link to this
Didn’t we already do this with baseball? Anyone remember the comic charade that was the Senate hearings? I remember thinking then that anyone that believes that the Senate hearings were real must also believe that pro wrestling is real. I guess Johnny Isakson believed in them. Johnny Isakson, what a waste of time.
By lucky
July 2, 2007 10:44 AM | Link to this
25 US citizens per day are murdered and/or killed by drunken illegals and our Senator wants hearings about steroids? Which are only available by prescription?
Let the AMA prosecute the unscrupulous doctors. Get busy with securing our borders.
If you have any time left over, how about action on poison food from China? I just buried my second cat lost from kidney failure. Before we have to start burying our children, demand that everything with one scintilla of ingredient imported from China be properly labeled.