Re: [Marxism] An Exchange on "Tibet amd the Ol'ympic Tradition"

[Shane Mage <shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 20, 2008, at 10:15 AM, Fred Feldman wrote:

> 1. Pro-Tibet protests grow - why Tibet deserves justice

> ...torch-bearer Majora Carter unfurled a small Tibetan flag,
> causing her to be evicted from the relay (and handed over to the  
> police)
> by the attendants who have been accompanying the torch around the  
> world.
> "Apparently, I'm not a part of the Olympic torch-bearing entourage
> anymore", she said...
>
She should get the John Carlos (another "imperialist agent") Olympic  
Bravery Award.

> ...'Sacred Flame Protection Unit'
>
> These attendants flanking the torch are officers of China's  
> paramilitary
> police. Euphemistically styled the "Sacred Flame Protection Unit",  
> they
> attracted attention in Paris and London with their snappy blue
> tracksuits and the zeal with which they carried out their duties. A
> British Olympic official privately described them [euphemistically]  
> as thugs...


Euphemistic indeed!  A proper title would be "Hitler Flame Protection  
Unit."  And they should be given an Avery Brundage Olympic  
Prostitution (apologies to all honest whores) Award.


Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to  
be called Zeus."

Herakleitos of Ephesos




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