- Jul 15, 2008
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Well if Essendon or the Federal Police can find no evidence of this letter then the penalty they suffer will be the same as if it was made up in the first place. Technically, EFC may have made it up. I like to believe that is not the case, but in reality it is possible.I'm not suggesting that Essendon did this but.... what is stopping any sporting club or individual concocting a 'fake or postulated letter' scenario from a person advising them about substances to take as a backstop when things go pear-shaped? Seems a particularly good strategy when the recipients are dancing on that fuzzy boundary of what is legal/illegal or when specific substances haven't yet been specificed in the code.
It strikes me that this is why everything I've read seems to indicate that the onus is on the person who takes the substance. Otherwise there's all sorts of ways the buck could be passed... of which this is just one example.
Nothing is stopping people from doing anything, other than their conscience, rules and the threat of punishment based on those rules.