Free Speech to be Curtailed at Winter Olympics 2010 in Vancouver

[Sol Invictus]

Daphne Bramham
Vancouver Sun
August 6, 2009

Editor’s note: In Canada, the Gestapo drops by your home if you plan to protest against the government.

In the flush of bidding for and winning the right to host the Olympics, nobody talked about how staging them might mean limiting civil liberties.

It’s only now, with seven months until the 2010 Winter Games begin, that organizers and compliant politicians are revealing plans to make it more difficult to exercise our fundamental constitutional rights to free speech, peaceful assembly and free expression.

For months now, police have been knocking on the doors of known activists and tracking them down in their neighbourhoods to “chat” about their Olympic protest plans. But that’s only part of it.

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[Zardoz]

Bread and circuses. I really, sincerely hope that Toronto never gets stuck with the Olympics! The Olympics are just a travelling show filled with drugged up athletes; if we insist on having this farce every four years, they should just have it in a permanent facility in Greece. Good luck to Vancouver!

[Thorum]

I know this is off-topic but I can't resist:

Remember this?

"The ejection of a Canadian Muslim girl from a soccer game for wearing hijab has triggered a heated debate in Quebec..."

and

"Here is the point: when this girl was given the choice between her religion and being in the game, she decided on her religion - and this will happen every time," he told the Canadian daily...."

Only a matter of time until this shows its face (no pun intended) in the Olympics and guess what, Muslims will be allowed to do what they want.

Pardon my English but get the fuck back to Saudi Arabia...

[Zardoz]

I remember that. Muslims think that they're special, the Chosen People - I just feel sorry for them. They waste their entire lives worshiping a fake god (as Zardoz, I'm an expert on fake gods) and they think that everyone else should accommodate their desires. Muslims are children, basically; deluded children who live in a fantasy world. I pity them more than I hate them.

Nice avatar, Thorum!

[Thorum]

I remember that. Muslims think that they're special, the Chosen People - I just feel sorry for them. They waste their entire lives worshiping a fake god (as Zardoz, I'm an expert on fake gods) and they think that everyone else should accommodate their desires. Muslims are children, basically; deluded children who live in a fantasy world. I pity them more than I hate them.

Nice avatar, Thorum!

Well said!!

[Vulpix]

I remember that. Muslims think that they're special, the Chosen People - I just feel sorry for them. They waste their entire lives worshiping a fake god (as Zardoz, I'm an expert on fake gods) and they think that everyone else should accommodate their desires. Muslims are children, basically; deluded children who live in a fantasy world.

Too bad they cause a lot of damage.

[Zardoz]

Too bad they cause a lot of damage.

Okay, maybe not deluded children, maybe mentally retarded adults playing with matches in a pool of gasoline. I just hope that when the gas goes "kaboom" it takes them all with it and leaves this pretty little planet to us sane Human Beings. I have high hopes for the Human Race, but mental diseases like islam must first be cured, one way or another...

[Thorum]

How about just a little rational living in this world?

[Vulpix]

Okay, maybe not deluded children, maybe mentally retarded adults playing with matches in a pool of gasoline

Well they do love to inbreed, which further depresses their IQ scores...

[Brännvin]

Well they do love to inbreed, which further depresses their IQ scores...

What is wrong with it? Let them doing that