Brees speaks out against Louisiana workers’ compensation bill

[a kennedy]

Drew Brees will not support the Saints’ efforts to pass a bill that the NFL Players Association says will limit the amount of workers’ compensation benefits the state’s professional athletes can collect, Ramon Antonio Vargas of the Baton Rouge Advocate reports.

“Don’t get involved in politics often but Fighting 4 my teammates & LA workers,” Brees said Tuesday on Twitter. Referring to the name of the proposed measure, Brees added, “Say NO to Bill 1069” and linked to an information sheet on the legislation from the NFLPA.

Passed in the Louisiana House of Representatives last week and headed to the Senate for consideration, the bill seeks to calculate workers’ compensation wage-loss benefits for hurt professional athletes on earnings up to the point of an injury — and not for earnings that would have been made if not for an injury. The language is based on rulings from a state circuit court of appeal in Jefferson Parish.

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[JonLP24]

1. I don't know Brees to well politically

I always assumed he was Republican based on his comments about Guantanamo Bay and came across something I found fascinating.

Drew: I guess. I think the international media has given so much scrutiny about the way that were treating these guys its almost that were going overboard to treat them so well. I mean, they are allowed to call and write letters home and allowed to receive letters and calls, they get 5 opportunities a day to pray and they have arrows in the prison toward where the Mecca is and the prison goes dead silent so these guys can have their religious time. They have rooms where they can watch movies and watch Nintendo Wii. So I think that goes ahead and says it right there. You talk to all the guards and the army personnel and they tell you stories about how these prisoners, they’ll be walking the cell block just to keep an eye on these guys and they’ll be throwing the feces and urine in the faces of these guards as they walk by and the guards aren’t allowed to do anything. They’re not allowed to physically retaliate. I mean these guys get away with whatever they want. It was interesting at one point we were walking around from one detention center to another and some of the prisoners saw us and started yelling “torture torture”. We teach them English by the way.

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BR: So they can yell at you!

Drew: They assume since were in civilian clothes that we are members of the media. So they started yelling “torture torture” like hey they’re torturing us. Anything they can do to show a poor light on the US or the US military they’re going to do it. But they are getting treated very very well.

BR: So when they started yelling “torture” did you give them the finger? What did you do? Did you laat em’? You didn’t have anything for them.

Drew: We were told not to look at them not to do anything.

BR: I’d give them the finger. They think I’m the media they’re trying to make my country look bad. I’d give them one of those.

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I'll go ahead and say it is entirely possible the guy was saying that based on the assumption Brees made as to why but what is fascinating is I know exactly what it is like to be confined to an area w/ a limited group of people w/ access to you and tortured (not to the extent as these guys at Guantanamo). So I'm completely familiar with that desperate feeling and for the sake of argument lets say that he was. He is being tortured, nobody that can do something about witnesses it and then sees an outsider or outsiders and yelling "torture, torture" because of that desperate feeling and I feel lesser of Brees based in his dismissal.

Whoever this BR person is - no better than the stuff I clean off toilets. Can you imagine (again for the sake of argument) that you're being tortured. You don't see any light at the end of the tunnel, you see outsiders and think maybe they can do something or you'll try anything and everything possible because you don't know what to do to get out of a situation where you can't see your way out of and yell desperately "torture, torture" and someone gives you the finger? Can you imagine how devastating something like that could be? It is absolutely cruel that probably kills the spirits more than the torture itself.

Anyways, there is a comprehensive report with detailed evidence of torture so they end up looking like much bigger assholes than if they would dismiss a similar yell in a place w/ no word about torture (which can happen anywhere).
http://detaineetaskforce.org/read/#/42/zoomed