The Governor · @TheGovernorSM
5th Feb 2016 from TwitLonger
I told you WADA was scared from Bruce Francis
I TOLD YOU @wada_ama WAS SCARED.
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The moment the compliant media folk started interviewing the former head, John Fahey, I knew WADA was worried about an appeal from the 34 Essendon players.
WADA knows the evidence which it presented to the CAS hearing is all holes and no Swiss cheese.
I have eviscerated the 16 strands relied on by the so-called gun American lawyer Richard Young.
Slowly, the penny has dropped elsewhere.
The players have been stitched up; sacrificed to a much larger game that WADA is playing – trying to get even more money out of the pockets of taxpayers not just here but everywhere in the world.
WADA wants the world’s tax payers to chip in another $270 million into its incredibly unsuccessful anti-doping program.
WADA estimates 10 per cent of athletes are drug cheats, yet test after test after test finds about half of one per cent of people returning positive results.
So WADA is reliant upon investigations using non-tested evidence.
Oh and by the way, since your sport signed up to our cosy little world under threat of loss of government funding, you have no right of appeal against any of this.
That the Essendon players have to appeal to a Swiss court is yet another abject failure of the WADA system and thankfully, around the world, more and more people have been waking up to it, as we in Australia are now.
What’s wrong with our courts here in Australia?
We have one of the best legal systems in the world.
Ah but yes, those judges might require something a bit more than fantasy masquerading as hearsay, like the two retired judges who sat on the AFL Anti-Doping tribunal.
WADA is now struggling to survive in its current form.
That was the reason that John Fahey was sent out to get the retaliation in first with a few soft interviews, many with the very same people who accused Tracey Holmes of going soft on James Hird.
Where was their hard questioning? They just rolled over and had their tummies tickled and made little gurgling sounds … oooh look at me, I am talking to John Fahey
But it didn’t work. Why? Because the Essendon players have a profound belief in their innocence.
So too now, as the 16 strands have been shredded day after day, have people within the Essendon club.
They now realise the evidence, if you can call it that, was tainted beyond belief.
Their anger is tangible, so too the anger of the supporters as they too have realised just how flawed was the case against their players.
SMS messages were changed, evidence of a doctor manipulated, evidence that didn’t help the case left out.
Recently a former DPP in NSW said it was paramount to the fundamentals of Australian law that a prosecution must present all the evidence, not just the bits that help its case.
Of course, that’s Australian law. WADA doesn’t want to go anywhere near Australian law.
The time has come now for Australian sports, for the Australian government which has been footing the bill for this nonsense to say to WADA enough is enough: Rip up the CAS finding, give the players back their lives and go find some other country to fund your inept testing programs and your tainted court cases.
Bruce Francis