The crusade of John McCain

the choice of the first organizers of pubblicizzare Ultimate fighting championship making lever on the more brutal aspects of the martial limbs ended soon in order to attract a political repression that in the USA nearly eliminated the mixed martial limbs to theirs to be born. The republican senator of Arizona John McCain divenne the figure of tip of a movement person who wants to appear respectable whom he tried to forbid the sport. Speaking about Ufc McCain he declared: "He is therefore brutal to be nauseante. He is something that can only appeals to to the more low common existing denominator in our society. It is not a sport for which civil society is place in one ".
Passing from the words to the facts, McCain launch a proibizionista campaign that found echo in many newspapers, which compared Ufc to the combats of the gladiatori of the ancient Rome. After varied letters from part of McCain (than evidently thought that to forbid the mixed martial limbs it was a more important priority for the Nation that to save energies for other issues type the atmosphere, the education, the health, etc...), several States began not to give the permission to the organizers to hold the events to the inside of their borders. In Canada, eight combatants were arrest you from the endured police after to have participated to an event of the Extreme organization fighting.
The infuence of McCain was made to feel also in other ways. Thanks to its participation, the companies of the tv to payment revocarono contracts with Ufc and the other organizations of mixed martial limbs, delivering them to the very small market of the television to satellitare. And therefore a sport that had fastly caught up a remarkable one happening of public came fastly sent to a step from the tomba. From where hatred of McCain for the mixed martial limbs derived? McCain, after all, had been watching to a boxing event in which one of the contendenti he was dead man, nevertheless this had not induced it to ask the prohibition for the boxing. Indeed, McCain was openly a fan of the boxe. If indeed it were taken care for the health of the contendenti, Because to take it with the mixed martial limbs inasmuch as the boxing cause more damages? Behind the rhetorical on the "barbarisms" of the sport, other reasons hid. As often it happens, to move a politician of the bore of McCain they were economic interests. Through its moglie, McCain was connected is on the social plan that financial to the company manufacturer of Budweiser beer, that it was one of the main sponsors of the boxing in America. They are in many therefore to suspect that the crusade of McCain has found its origin in the economic interests legacies to the world of the boxing that was felt threatened from the popolarità of a new sport from combat. In a sure sense there is nearly from hoping that McCain was motivated from cynical economic reasons. It would be nearly more worrisome, in fact, if therefore it were not. If we eliminate the economic aspect of the vicissitude, the campaign of McCain would appear of an embarrassing stupidity, inasmuch as it would not be other that the nth puritano attempt - destined to fail - of prescribed the human moral through the law. Thirteen years of proibizionismo against the alcoholic ones in America (1920-1933) have not had other result that to make to grow the power of the organized crime, thanks R-al.mercato black risen around to a profitable industry like that one of the alcoholic ones.
The same thing can be said for the modern laws on drugs (the government of the USA only spends every year 4 billions of dollars against the marijuana, without but succeeding to limit of neither the consumption neither the distribution). All those laws that aim to limit that that adult consenzienti can make with the own life (from the prostituzione the bets, from the laws of the past against the omosessualità to the eutanasia) are destined to make to feel the moralisti well that they pass to them but to fail on the practical plan, inasmuch as where is demanded there will be always market, illegal lawyer or who is. Why the government would have to pass laws in order to stop two athletes whom, aware of the risks to which they go encounter, they want to compete in one sport from combat? What is of therefore barbaric in all this?
It is the classic paradox American, than from a part it exalts the freedom characterizes them, but from the other it wants to forbid to all those choices characterizes them that they do not meet the approval of the "police of the moral", made of people like McCain. Putting from part the political-philosophical issues, however, pack-saddles to say that the crusade of McCain slowed down the development of the mixed martial limbs in America, but did not stop it. After years in which the sport it survived alone thanks to a small nucleus of get passionate to you, without the benefit of the television to payment, in the last years the athletic commission of the state of Nevada (continuation endured from the athletic commission of other States) have recognized the legittimità of the sport and of it it endorses the events. The television to payment is returned to transmit the events and the popolarità of the sport is growing breathtakingly. The crusade of McCain, as those launch from all the moralisti inquisitori, are ended in order to fail.