everything is politics

Everything in life must have its purpose, and so must Goatboy’s pen. This blog has been struggling to find its raison d’etre since its creation but after looking back over the past posts I found that they have become increasingly politicised. But then ….Everything is politics,

and so it is that Goatboy’s pen has decided that this is to be a place for political commentary, delivered in goatboy's own unique style.


so with that said, to the matters at hand
This week:

JAH CURE is FREE!!!












After his 9 year incarceration, enforced by a corrupt judicial system, for a crime with no supporting evidence, concocted in order to remove him from being a voice for the people…Jah Cure is free from prison.

The details of his charges are irrelevant for this post and if you wish to learn more about the trumped up charges they hit him with , please do so in your own time as I will not waste any more words on them.

There was much jubilation and celebration in the streets of Kingston, Jamaica where fans greeted him on his release.
Jah Cure said, "Life goes on - this is earth – a lot of things happen." He also said "there is no room for negativity but only for forthrightness and humility in full faith of the power of Jah Almighty."

his message to the youth was plain and simple. He said, "Stay focused - no need to go down certain roads whether purposefully or not. Be conscious - don’t try certain things – stay away from certain things

His music is where you will find out what these “certain things” are ,and it was for this reason that he was locked up in the first place.
The authorities and the “powers that be” are displeased when people suggest that there may be other lifestyle choices and types of behaviour that you can live your life by which do not support a capitalist regime or even make you pay taxes.
you may end up not even recognising such regimes and governments as a part of your reality at all.

He was producing such great,conscious music which was being heard by and educating so many people that, it is my opinion, he was locked up so as to remove his ability to be heard by anybody, anymore.
This is not the first time that it has happened to a wise outspoken soul nor will it be the last , but we can take great comfort and joy from knowing that , just like Mandela before him, his day will come, his words will be heard and the truth will out.
He is currently penning a book and is getting back to the studio to put down his new material…..I cant wait to hear it.
The world better watch out, now that Jah Cure is back at the mic.

Jah Cure feat. Fantan Mojah - Nuh Build Great Man


Jah \cure- filmed in prison

http://www.jahcure.com/
http://www.watchmi.com/video_309_ONLY_ON_WATCHMI_-_Jah_Cure_-_My_Life.html


Drugs in sports- cycling and the tour de farce




So cyclists are taking performance enhancing drugs are they? Well the clue is in the title- ”performance enhancing”.



In this age where competition is all about performance and no longer about taking part, I think it would be bloody obvious that cyclists and most sports men and women for that matter, are going to be taking performance enhancers.
The problem that people seem to have with this is that it is some how unfair on the other competitors who are not taking them (why not??!!??) and also that it is in some way unnatural or cheating to take such enhancers. This seems like nostalgic folly to me (the bike isn't natural for a start).
As with everything in life from small amoebas to mobile phones all things will evolve with time. Amoebas get larger and phones get smaller but in all cases it is so as to be an improved version of the last.
Runners are faster, cyclists are quicker, footballers are fitter, triathlons are longer and even darts has gone alcohol free. Sportspeople are judged on their achievements and there performances and not for their taking part, so it will be that the aim of any sportsperson is to be able to perform to best of their physical ability….
deciding what methods are used in attempting to achieve this, is when the drugs problem rears is head. There are guidelines which govern which drugs are legal and which are not legal to use in aiding the body’s fitness and this is why there is a problem. All drugs should be allowed to be used or none at all, and to ban all drugs from use would be a nonsense because then you would have to quantify just what is a drug? tetrahydrogestrinone? , caffine? the sugar in a banana? Or all three?

The problem is that with all of the acquired knowledge now available to humankind it is possible to create an almost infinite amount of drugs for producing very specific and different effects, to aid the human body in achieving athletic feats. It is my opinion that all and any techniques/drugs or methods should be allowed in all sports.
A handful of commentators maintain that, as outright prevention of doping is an impossibility, all doping should be legalized. However, most disagree with this assertion, pointing out the harmful long-term effects of many doping agents. With doping legal, all competitive athletes would be compelled to use drugs, the net effect would be a level playing field but with widespread health consequences. - wikipedia

Maybe there could be a separate competition for athletes that wanted to remain drug free and then the best from the drugged up athletes and the best from the dope free sports folk could go head to head in a showdown.

With a legalisation of all drugs Sportspeople would require a knowledge of chemistry and physics to go with the biology they already know.
Sport would be complete.
At the moment sportspeople, as we have seen in the “tour de farce” this week, are all ready combining these 3 sciences to great effect, the only problem is the archaic rules that are governing the sports deem it illegal to do so.

On a side note….
I thought it was a bit rich that champion cyclist lance Armstrong was having a go at the “drug takers” this week, wasn’t he a man who beat cancer before winning his tours?
i dont mean to sound harsh, but Im sure that there were plenty of wonder drugs used in beating his cancer and it wasn’t done by drinking orange juice and doing sit ups was it? No! it was lots and lots of drugs…lovely, powerful body performance enhancing drugs.!

..so no I wont be easy on him just because he had cancer. What does he want? a fucking medal. Hes got 7 of them…and all down to orange juice apparently.

anyway now for your edutainment...

anthony b - kicks knowledge live


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