Doug Logan Is My Hero: Marion Jones’ Commutation Request

The new chief executive of USA Track & Field has sent a “strongly worded  letter” to President Bush, according to the New York Times, urging him not to consider a commutation or pardon for Marion Jones.

What great news. There is someone out there who understands why we should not give the famous and wealthy “special privileges” when it comes to the justice system.

The following quotes are from a New York Times article:

“Our country has long turned a blind eye to the misdeeds of our heroes,” Doug Logan wrote in an open letter to President Bush. Logan was named chief executive of the sport’s national governing body last week. “If you have athletic talent or money or fame, the law is applied much differently than if you are slow or poor or an average American trying to get by. At the same time, all sports have for far too long given the benefit of the doubt to its heroes who seem too good to be true, even when common sense indicates they are not.”

“To reduce Ms. Jones’s sentence or pardon her would send a horrible message to young people who idolized her, reinforcing the notion that you can cheat and be entitled to get away with it. A pardon would also send the wrong message to the international community. Few things are more globally respected than the Olympic Games, and to pardon one of the biggest frauds perpetuated on the Olympic movement would be nothing less than thumbing our collective noses at the world.”

Those words may be the greatest since the days of Martin Luther King. Well folks, I have a dream…

That Marion Jones will suck it up and serve her more than reasonable sixth month prison sentence and four hundred hours of community service like the rest of the loser criminals in this great nation. I think I may even put this BS up there with the prisoners in Arizona complaining about not having Cable TV. Really?

But wait, there’s more. The best part of Logan’s letter is when he starts slamming Jones for the liar and fake that she really is.

“With her cheating and lying, Marion Jones did everything she could to violate the principles of track and field and Olympic competition,” Logan wrote. “When she came under scrutiny for doping, she taunted any who doubted her purity, talent and worth ethic. Just as she had succeeded in duping us with her performances, she duped many people into giving her the benefit of the doubt.”\

In the past, we have only come to expect politically correct words of “wisdom” from sports leaders but Doug has just brought the stones to the table. With this letter Doug Logan his single handily proved to the American Public that he is not f#%king around.

Doug Logan, you are my hero.

~ by Moby on July 23, 2008.