20-07-2012, 09:14 AM
The original Olympic Games - long ago - were devised as a way of stopping a war and having the opposing sides instead compete, rather than kill. Modern games are highly militarized again - even if the athletes are not. That such security is needed is absurd. That the biggest security contractor in the World was awarded the contract itself is suspicious; but that they are looking to make top dollar and pay bottom wages should surprise no one. Sadly, the Olympics now are all about making money for large corporations and their client states and politicians - the athletics are only the side show. In London and the UK there have been arrests and legal threats on i.e. florists who make flower arrangements with the five rings [but didn't pay the licensing fees for this]....its not about athletics or competitive spirit; its about big money and monopolies.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass