Litigious Society Gone Amok

Want to clear your name on a technicality?

Go to court!

It’s life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and the American Way.

Recently, former Major League Baseball pitcher, alleged steroids user and all-time 1D10T, Roger Clemens, had his legal team show up in court to argue that the defamation of character lawsuit with respect to the testimony of his former trainer, Brian McNamee, against him about Clemens’ steroids use should be revived.

Why?

Because the injections allegedly occurred in New York.  And the judge who threw out the defamation of character suit is in Texas.

In real life, not in court of law, should it matter where the injections occurred?  If McNamee injected Clemens with steroids and Human Growth Hormone (HGH) it doesn’t flippin’ matter where the incident happened.

He’s filing a motion in Texas because that’s where he lives.  The “I didn’t do it because I live in Texas and this stuff happened in NY” just doesn’t cut it as far as I am concerned.

Whatever happened to the honorable thing of admitting that you did something wrong?

And when did going to court solve any problem?  It’s as if the whole country is now on Judge Wapner time.

If George Washington had chopped down the cherry tree today, his father would be in court as a defendant.

And it just seems to me that when people grasp for technicality straws as a way out, which Clemens is doing with this lawsuit revival, then that just smells of guilt.

I guess he wants to be not guilty, just like OJ was.

That’s OK by me if he chooses that way to sleep at night.

But to me he’s a steroid user.

Source:   ESPN