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Originally Posted by nanwynnfan
Right. Then sentence Clemens, please, the very day after you sentence William Jefferson Clinton.
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is perjury no longer a crime? can all perjurers use the but clinton defense? does it work?
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Originally Posted by nanwynnfan
McNamee, as I really did not expect to spell out for you, was Clemens' personal trainer, a rather intimate relationship, in that it involves ups and downs, good days and bad, quite probably training regimine and supplement recipes not divulged to competitors and private conversations that expand beyond the training routine.
That's why I deliberately toosed in the "First, do no harm" reference, because trainers, like bartenders and confessors, are privy to personal communication not intended for public broadcasting. More imprtantly, the trainer's profession is basically health-and-wellbeing related; so you look out for the best interests of the client.
It is disingenuous to attempt engaging McNamee's responsibilities to wife and kids as a reasonable defensse of his unprofessional conduct. Noone suggested he abandom them to protect Roger Clemens.
The whole thing in so tawdry, including the reaches for arguments right here on this board, that Mitchell is right: Move on.
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his unprofessional conduct was being a 'roids dealer. clemens unprofessional conduct was being the roids user. a freakin personal trainer has no professional duty to keep information from authorities as he's being criminally charged. he has no obligation to protect the user. it's like saying a drug dealer has an ethical obligation to protect his user clients. the guilty need have a code to protect the guilty.
as for moving on, if everyone tells the truth, noone faces criminal charges. pretty simple.