Why would you show yourself? I wouldn't...
Crazy industry, full of lunatics.
It lends a certain amount of credibility to the individual, at least in most people's eyes. It shouldn't, but it does. There is a reason why so many online drug users/advocates don't post their real names and faces--because they're breaking the law! It's even more risky if the individual is a well known online personality with influence--because if everyone online knows you, you better believe that L.E. does to and they care more about those individuals than your typical board member.
Still, we often see people tearing these individuals down for not posting their names and faces, but let me ask you this, how many people who provide the kind of open, uncensored information I do are putting their names and faces online? Hell, the typical board member won't even do so, even when they aren't talking about drugs.
It's these same people that like to bash others for not posting their names and faces. Total hypocrites. Or, you get the guys who do post their names and faces, bashing the one's who don't, but let me ask you this. How many of those people are posting the kind of information I and some others do? None. For the most part, they don't say shit. They just sit there, taking no risks whatsoever, and then attack those that do just because they are trying to protect themselves.
But let's say someone in my position did decide to plaster their name and face all over the Web. You would think that it would gain them the respect of their hypocritical detractors, right? Wrong. Anytime someone has done so, you get these same people--the one's who knock you for not posting your face and name--calling you a fucking idiot for doing the very thing they said you should do!
Case in point--Boston Lloyd. The guy is as open as they come and has no problem attaching a name and face to his words, yet the biggest criticism against him (outside of his often inaccurate information) is that he is an idiot for putting his name and face on the Web! You see it all over--people criticizing him for being foolish enough to show his name and face after putting out that kind of information. So, you really can't win either way. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
The last category of people who associate a name and face with their words are those who are no longer breaking the law. It is in their past, so they are now safe to post their "history". Even then, the information that comes from these people is usually limited.
Lastly, most of the coaches who do show their names and faces, such as Farah, Hany, Aceto, don't say a word about PED's, and if they do, it is always "safe" information. You will never find them making recommendations, admitting to use, or posting anything which would be deemed controversial or illegal by L.E.
Their is one final category of drug advocates who have attached a name and face to their words--the ones who end up in jail. Would you like me to rattle off a list, because it is quite long. I don't want to be among this group.
There are a lot of hypocrites out there--those who take no risks, yet expect those who do to leave themselves vulnerable. These people want to have their cake and eat it to. It's not good enough to provide this information--they also want the information givers to incriminate themselves.
That's why, when and if I put a face to my words, I will from that day forward approach things differently. It will likely be after I have stopped using AAS, and I can also guarantee that my writings will take a different path.
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