Live Strong

So Armstrong is tired of fighting the charges and that automatically implies guilt... the people who believe that must never have been in a position themselves where they were oppressed by an overwhelming "authority"; an authority that does not play fair, have ulterior motives, unscrupulous in their means to further their personal agenda. An authority with a total lack of transparency and accountability. Until you have been in that position, and experienced for yourself the emotional turmoil, the constant paranoid, the frustration, and the gradual degradation of oneself that is induced through the drama. The damn-if-you-do-and-damn-if-you-don't situation. Until you have been there, you are in no position to make that judgement. When you go against such authority, you lose a bit of yourself bit by bit. You hope for their goodness only to be disappointed when they take advantage or refused to play fair. Subsequently, you feel you must sink to their level in order to get by, and you give up a bit of your principles. Suddenly, you realized you have really two choices, either be false to yourself and follow their way, or stay true and quit the fight before it takes too much away from you because misery loves company, and those oppressors only will bring you further down with them if you continue to engage them. So I say I continue to support Armstrong. I believe in his innocence until proven otherwise by an unbiased panel, with principled investigators and prosecutors.