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Roger Clemens should never have been in court. That was the real verdict that came out of his trial for lying to Congress about whether he used performance-enhancing drugs. The miscarriage of justice is not that Clemens may have gotten away with something, but that vindictive government functionaries can spend five years trying to jail someone for a crime without adequate evidence. That’s far more dangerous than any syringe Clemens may have used.
I care only minimally what Clemens injected in his butt — his butt is his personal business. But I do care that a government cowboy can put his boot on Clemens’s front porch just because he doesn’t like the look of his face. Because he thinks Clemens did something “dirty.” Because...
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