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Message: [QUOTE="Thelmus, post: 2918619, member: 8988"] Whilst I'm a little tired of the media rehashing the lodge stories, especially in the light that it was for an incident 3+ years ago in a different team under a different coach after a major period of exclusion from the game, I find the articles tie-in of "thuggish" unions a cheap shop at most of us working class people. To tar us all with the same brush, particularly in the light of other, far darker practices of employers (everything from deliberately docking pay to below minimum wage, auctioning jobs, deliberately illegal discrimination, and even directly bullying employees for sexual favours, among the host of recent allegations), establishes the kind of effuse, overt clouding of issues, that the Mathew Lodge saga is a prime example. Rather than make a direct and concise criticism, the writer of the article just drags up the same old "propaganda" and we are expected to buy it. All with the banal (and quite useless I might say, as he doesn't in any way offer any real defence of Lodge, his actions, his atonement in a productive manner) excuse of offering a counterpoint. The Premier's criticism of Lodge also lacks any real credibility, not because of union links, "thuggish" or otherwise, but simply because it inherently is a product of jumping on a political bandwagon without examining the issue in its entirety. She has the power, through legislation to act in law, that no-one is offered the chance to rebuild their lives through the resumption of their career of choice, by simply banning all professional athletes and officials guilty of a crime ever! For that matter, why not politicians, doctors, lawyers and most importantly, business leaders. She chooses not to. Could it be, that we value human beings in spite of their flaws? We as a society accept that some of us will make mistakes, in Lodge's case a grave one (though others, under less scrutiny had done worse), yet find value in redemption and forgiveness. As it is, some people are revoked their rights to pursue their profession because their actions have cause to dissuade society's trust in the individual in those roles. Convicted paedophiles are not allowed in jobs involving children. Criminal theft precludes a person from the financial industry. Whilst the legal profession has strict tenants on criminal behaviour. Does Lodge's action preclude him from the role of a professional sportsman? That's a legitimate argument. But why stop there? Why not actors, musicians, business leaders and dare i say it journalists? They too are all within the public sphere, yet their opinions are somehow immune from the same scrutiny. Why? Let those who are innocent cast the first stone. [/QUOTE]

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