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Its a CULT!!!
Posted By: One who was ousted (cpe-70-113-202-97.austin.res.rr.com)
Date: Wednesday, April 2, 2008, @ 1:53 p.m.
It is absolutely TRUE that Rich Peters and NASA have both a cult-like following and a family atmosphere. Rich can be as charismatic as Davis Koresh or Charles Manson(in fact, he looks a lot like a bloated version of Manson) and he uses his charisma to draw people in. He is equally as devious, underhanded and evil as both of them. The people that follow him the closest, ala JT Hall, Robin and Terry Hedrick, Job Who Said, and a few others are basically unable to think for themselves and it is hard to tell their spines from silly string. Rich like Manson and Koresh expects, DEMANDS, fierce loyalty and blind dedication to him and NASA if one is to reap the “rewards” of membership and involvement. Just like Manson, he lets others do the dirty work and he sits back and watches. He will find the victims (Tate/LaBianca), direct the family to the location and then sit back and let the carnage begin while he watches with great pleasure. Along with his powerlifting endeavors over the last 30+ years, Rich has taken more than one stab at politics; why wouldn’t he….the aforementioned “qualities” are all essential for a politician. As long as you are following Rich’s edicts and the party line you will be able to remain in the fold without problems. Should you question the edicts or the party line or show any type of initiative that might be contradictory to Rich or NASA you will face retribution. Much like the kings of yesteryear, RICH, is the sole dictator of NASA and it is truly up to him who spends time in the spotlight or time in the dungeon. As long as you show him that you are amenable to his ways and beg his forgiveness when you fall from the fold you will be fine.
He is truly a businessman and will bend and shape the business plan (aka; the rules) to fit the needs of the market (his needs, ultimately) on a whim. He preaches that NASA will not bend or break the rules for anyone……that is an absolute lie. If a high profile lifter, i.e., Mike or Teale Adlemann or Tom Manno, needs to be tested he will find a way or reason not to test them. His usual excuse is something to the effect that he tested them at the meet in New Mexico, when no one else who is calling for the current test was present, and they did fine. He says that the coefficient system that he created is a perfect precursor to drug testing and yet, when he has allowed the referees to test at will or pick a person based on other criteria there have been more than a few failures. If one of the “high profile” lifters provides a financial resource to NASA, like being a meet director, ala Mike and Teale Adlemann, that lifter might never be tested because a drug test failure would not only mean a suspension from competition for three years but a suspension from being a meet director for the same amount of time. If a meet director were to be suspended it would mean that Rich would have to travel to that state for a meet or, even worse, there would only be one NASA meet on a given weekend instead of a possible two or maybe three if Greg VanHoose were to put on a meet in his area. Now Rich is going to say that meet directors only send in card money and the rest of the monies go to them. Okay, even so, money is still at issue and NASA would still lose money if no cards get sold because no meet was held. This guy is a master at taking things, even the smallest detail, and putting a twist on it so that it looks like he and NASA are in the right. Remember, he is a businessman and a politician. He is also an auctioneer , so he perfectly able to talk fast, using absolute gibberish, and make a person raise their hand thinking that they are buying a good thing only to find out later that they bought a cheap piece of crap.
The current issue with Terry Tucker, Jeff Phillips, Jesse Isreal and the other Power Sports guys was a long time coming. Rich and NASA, once again, put a bill of goods out there to draw folks in just like any politician and then failed to follow through. Drug testing of the top lifters at the meet and holding the money until the results came back was what was promised and expected. It would have been the honorable and correct thing to do. Again, they based their decisions on the coefficients like they are some sort of infallible formula. If drug testing was promised then drug testing should have been done regardless of the coefficients and the tale they tell. It is no surprise that Rich would not face Terry Tucker face to face when he was questioned. It is also no surprise that he sent Job Who Said or JT Fallguy to deal with him. Rich is not good at face to face confrontations when he is wrong and he knows it. He is not able to handle the looking you in the eye part of telling the truth; this is why he is so good and spewing venom and feces from a keyboard at 3am and will talk to folks on the phone but not face to face, unless he has a captive audience and not one that is questioning his or NASA’s policies. His only exception to the face to face confrontation issue is to discuss politics. That discussion will come to a quick end if a Democrat is able to make a valid point that he cannot counter is his ultra-republican, free market, radicalism.
Long story, short…..he has been this way for 50+ years. He is not going to change and those who have left are smarter and better for the experience and for waking up to smell the coffee. Speaking of coffee…….
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