Sandy said:http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/nov07/nov07news
Luc Mission has finally hit on the essential point. Uci should now die a
stormy death. And WADA.
"According to Misson, it should not be obligatory to hold a licence
in order to work and each person is entitled to an independent and
impartial jurisdiction when being punished."
I don't think much of UCI and WADA, but come on. The second
half of this sentence is fine, but the first half is dreaming. At
least
in the US, you gotta be licensed to be a tradesman: plumber,
contractor, exterminator. To say nothing of all the professional
trades. You need a license to be a lawyer (only they don't call
it a license, to avoid sounding like tradesmen). If you violate
the ethical code of lawyering, you can lose your license, even
if the violation is not sufficient to put you in jail.
You don't need a license to be a rock star, and there isn't
an ethical code. So maybe if we all recognize that bicycle
racers are pure entertainment like rock stars, Misson is
correct. But he should argue on that basis, not inventing
new human rights like the right to be employed without
taking any responsibility for one's own actions, even though
those actions might be detrimental to one's fellow tradesmen.
Ben