Crowds of democratic and freedom-loving people halted the disgraceful so-called Olympic torch as its dishonourable bearers, surrounded by Chinese, uniformed, crypto fascist thugs tried to carry it through Bloomsbury Square. Aided by Brown's British police in anti-personnel gear, a way was finally forced through the peaceful crowds dissenting from authoritarian parades in London's streets and squares.
This time they were brought to a temporary standstill. We have four years to stop them for good.
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Mind how you go...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKl2sEN4yNM&eurl
Your case against the Olympics could be stood on its head.
I.e.: Olympics (and similar events such as the World Cup) are what make sport truly global, as opposed to bilateral or multilateral-but-not-global matches. Their governance is not satisfactory, but better than any existing and foreseeable form of global governance. Drugs and unfairness are rife in national sport to a greater extent than in the Olympics. Protesters and boycotters ruin the fun and the globality of sport. Politics should be kept out of the Olympics - except for the pathetic, stupid gesture of national leaders boycotting the opening ceremony; that is allowed, just as any other peaceful demonstration.
A painter friend of mine used to hang his pictures upside down to see whether they were just as balanced as they were the right way up. But when an argument can be stood on its head this shows up not its strength but its total, irredeemable weakness.
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