International Sports Day.

I know there are many in this land who wish that The Olympic Games Act 2006, that marvelous example of legislative corporate fascism that is currently being enforced in our so called democracy, could have been a tad more extensive. A democracy where  a so called 'sports reporter'can call for workers to be sacked for having the temerity to exercise their democratic right, after a legally held ballot, even though as a BBC employee he should be politically impartial. Yes I talking about you Gary Richardson, you middle England, daily mail reading fascistic KN*****D.

I get the impression that many would like an added clause that allows for the execution of any person who should dare to criticise the games. But they miss the point, mainly because most of them are thick as s**t. The criticism is not of the games, it is the organisation, the destruction of civil liberties and cost of the games. Listed below are some examples.Perhaps you would like to defend them.

• The games are costing between 9bn and 12bn. 1bn (10%) of that is supplied by the corporate sponsors, 90% is tax payer funded.Yet it is the tax payers who are having their civil liberties dismantled while corporate sponsors interests are being brazenly promoted by the government and locog.
• The corporate sponsors are anti-business. The tax funded brand police clamp down on any small business attempting to profit from the Olympics. Examples being, florists having to take down Olympic themed displays. a baker being told to remove an Olympic ring display of  bagels, people being forbidden from holding an 'Olympic fete', a Weymouth butcher being forced to remove an Olympic rings display of sausages. The words 'Olympic'. '2012' and 'summer' being copyrighted. This is corporate fascism where massive multi nationals are attempting to destroy competition and monopolise the market.
• Spectators being told what they can and cannot wear i.e if you attempt to enter the Olympic park wearing a tee shirt with a Pepsi logo and nike trainers you will be probably be turned away. So said Lord Coe in an interview at the weekend, although he wasn't sure about the trainers. Nice to know he's got his finger on the pulse of things.
• You cannot bring a flag in of any nation that is not participating. That is code for we will not allow the flag of Tibet to be waved in case it annoys the chinese. In other words, although you supposedly live in a democracy, we are happy to suppress freedom of expression in the interests of non democratic one party states.
• Placing ground to air missiles on the top of peoples homes without consultation. The sort of thing you would expect a one party state to do. Also, this is a pathetic example of machismo from the the man child currently holding the post of PM. It is interesting the missiles are placed on social housing rather that on the mansions of Kensington and Chelsea.
• The imposition of zil lanes for the convenience of the 'Olympic family' and 'VIP's'. Of course it is important for Usain Bolt or Jessica Ennis to get to the stadium on time, that is understandable, but who cares if the CEO of Coca Cola, the Saudi Arabian ambassador or some middle manager from Mcdonalds gets there late, tough.It's  the 90% that are made to walk in the gutter even though the 90% paid for the roads.
• Lord Coe is coming across as nothing more than a brown nosing corporate lackey. He only got the gig because he won gold medals in games that  had boycotts. So really those medals don't count Lord Coe.
• Mcdonalds making it illegal to sell 'chips' in the Olympic Park.
• The G4S fiasco. Another example of the public sector bailing out the private sector. The worst aspect of this fiasco is not the fact that a penalty clause was not in the contract. No, the worst aspect is that soldiers, having come back from Afghanistan, are then told by self serving politicians that  they must cancel holidays, preventing them from spending precious time with their families. The nightmare scenario for MP's and G4S CEO Buckles is that a soldier has to return to Afghanistan without seeing his family and gets killed.

We dissenters are looking forward to a festival of sporting excellence. I myself am very excited about the hop skip and jumping, the synchronised drowning  swimming and the one where they wave a ribbon around their heads. Its just a shame it has to be conducted a midst a swamp of wealth, greed, privilege, self interest and incompetence.

On a lighter note, apparently the coach containing the USA athletics team took a wrong turn when leaving Heathrow and 4hrs later it was trying to negotiate the Swindon one way system. An athlete tweeted that those on board were sleepy, hungry and needing to pee. It good to know that the dwarves that failed the Snow White audition have found new careers in athletics.

Badger Cull.

I think farmers should get more for the milk they produce. Perhaps then, they can put their hands in their pockets and pay to have badgers vaccinated against TB rather than blowing the brains out of an iconic symbol of the  British countryside.Although I doubt if they will. They'll probably blow it on a new 4x4 instead.

PC Harwood.

Harwood was a thug in uniform. It is a disgrace that he was able to avoid disciplinary action for assault and altering notes by simply resigning from his post with the Metropolitan Police only to be re hired by them 4 yrs later after another complaint of excessive force was made against him while serving with Surrey Police. This time by a fellow officer. Another disturbing fact is that since 1990 there have been 1,433 deaths involving police officers without one single prosecution. The main problem is that some coppers see themselves as being part of a Police Force when in fact they are a Police Service.

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