In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it
goes on.
-Robert Frost
Today it became official – Mr. Dr. Layne Norton has won his battle
against the CEO of Ice Cream Fitness Jason Blaha. {More}. For those
of you who don't know a few months ago Mr. Jason Blaha accused Mr.
Dr. Layne Norton of using illegal drugs such as anabolic steroids
during his preparations for bodybuilding and powerlifting
competitions. According to the official information in the media Mr.
Dr. Layne Norton has spent over USD 24,000 on legal fees during the
whole process. Some time ago IronGangsta.com would have written a
much angrier intro than the one above. Today, however, we see no
point in doing so.
There are certain things in life that make you feel like you are
trying to break the wall with your head – in the end you are always
the loser. One of those things is fighting against money. You can't
win the fight against money. Money always wins because it has a
larger following. Mr. Dr. Layne Norton and his egoistically driven
lawsuit are a good example. USD 24,000 or so were spent on an
accusation made on YouTube.com. There are countries where in order to
earn that kind of money you have to work for years but in this case
we have big corporate supplements companies ready to cover the losses
in order to make even more cash.
The goals seem to justify the means, as always.
Big money is always made by taking little and sometime not so little
from average people who work 10 hours or more every day just to be
alive. There are no exceptions to this rule – TV stars, Hollywoods
stars, Rock stars, bodybuilding stars, cigarette companies, drug
dealers – all of them make money by taking a little bit from
ordinary people every single day. This is something that will never
change and should be looked at as a constant factor, similar to the
way people treat things like death and aging – no way to escape.
The fact that supplement companies will continue to present IFBB pros
as natural bodybuilders using anabolic steroids is also one of those
things. IronGangsta has been informing its readers about similar
issues since the start but we don't expect the injustice to stop in
this lifetime. Our fight is sort of like Bill Maher's fight against
religion. {More}
Life will go on and people will continue to buy protein powders (food
for pigs), creatine (expensive urine), amino acids...etc in the hope
to get shredded and big and fill emotional voids. In the meanwhile
the muscle magazines will forever use the image of steroids addicts
to sell their goods to the new suckers born every minute. During the
process well connected lawyers will continue to get their fat checks
for finding loop holes day after day.
IronGangsta.com does not have a solution to this problem. We can tell
you what we consider to be the truth but it all ends there and the
fitness world is just a small example of the corrupt world we are all
part of and to which we all contribute consciously or not. There are
no saints on this planet. There will never be.
In just a few words I can sum up everything I've learned about
life: it's a “bitch” and it goes on.
“gangsta” version of Robert Forst's quote.
P.S. Mr. Dr. Layne Norton has written in his official report that
fans of Mr. Jason Blaha have threatened the family of the former. We
can't possibly know if that's true or not but just in case we
recommend that you read this article.