Mitt Romney announces weak security at Olympics

[phrodeau]

It wasn't such a newsworthy item, until Mitt Romney opened his big mouth. Now the whole world knows that there are serious security concerns at the Olympics this year.

Now the likelihood of a terrorist act during the games has increased. Thanks a lot, Mitt.

 

[Morwen]

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[koalabear]

You must have missed the news the last 6 months.

 

[islandman]

I don't care about the Olympics. I don't care about Romney. Or Obama either.

Why so concerned with the security of a corporate police state forced sporting event and the pronouncements of corporate police state mouthpieces?

Do you ever turn off your fucking TV?

Because the event is made up of people.

 

[butters]

Because the event is made up of people.

now there you go being all .. humanistic

 

[unregistered]

 

[koalabear]

Mitt just lost the Brit vote!

 

[islandman]

now there you go being all .. humanistic

I'm related to one of the Olympians.

 

[Morwen]

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[pete]

It wasn't such a newsworthy item, until Mitt Romney opened his big mouth. Now the whole world knows that there are serious security concerns at the Olympics this year.

Now the likelihood of a terrorist act during the games has increased. Thanks a lot, Mitt.

mitt didn't do anything, you blantantly partisan hack.
i'd heard about the security concerns long before he got there.
if anything, his bringing it up may have even prompted action to get the scene more secure. this would have been true if *any* newsmaker spoke up about it

 

[islandman]

No, it is run by corporations, for corporations. Check out the "Brand Police"

"Brand Police" isn't any athlete I can find at these Games.

 

[blobfish]

Wait, the Olympics could be a potential target for terrorists!?

 

[busybody..]

now there you go being all .. humanistic

STFU, YOU PUTRID FUCK!

 

[Wrong Element]

Remember when "insulting the British" was part of the overall brief against Obama?

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=643237


Obama gave back a Churchill bust. Romney said the British are running a shit Olympics. Yeah, pretty much the same thing.

 

[koalabear]

Most important thing in the brit press is david beckham visiting #10.

 

[Satellite15]

The Brand Police is about right. LOCOG are going to town trying to stamp out all uses of the word Olympic in any context without their authorisation. Even the BBC, the UK's sole broadcaster of the games, can't use it in any other context other than their coverage of it.

As for it all being about the athletes, and the achievement, I dearly wish that was the case, but with this as with any international sporting event, it is less about the athletes and participants as it is about the big brands buying a slice of the action.

As for security, there aren't going to be holes there, jus tthat the company who got the contract ballsed up, and can't deliver the numbers they promised, meaning out armed forces and police have to do the work.

The company still believes they are entitled to the full payment, after such a disaster. Our parliament's Home Affairs Select Commitee were amazed at that belief.

Mitt Romney's assertion that the security is weak, isn't wholly accurate. There has been a screw up of monumental proportions, but that doesn't mean that the ball hasn't been picked up by others. We can't really say how good or bad the security is until we are into the games proper, and perhaps not until the end of it.

 

[VaticanAssassin]

It wasn't such a newsworthy item, until Mitt Romney opened his big mouth. Now the whole world knows that there are serious security concerns at the Olympics this year.

Now the likelihood of a terrorist act during the games has increased. Thanks a lot, Mitt.

Way to go Coach!

 

[islandman]

As for it all being about the athletes, and the achievement, I dearly wish that was the case, but with this as with any international sporting event, it is less about the athletes and participants as it is about the big brands buying a slice of the action.

I don't understand this sentiment. How would England afford to put on the Games without corporate sponsorship? Would it have been better had you, as a taxpayer, foot the bill for it all?

 

[Saint Peter]

No ice hockey.

Sucks.

 

[oggbashan]

I don't understand this sentiment. How would England afford to put on the Games without corporate sponsorship? Would it have been better had you, as a taxpayer, foot the bill for it all?

We foot the bill for most of it, if not as taxpayers then as purchasers of National Lottery tickets.

The corporate sponsors were affected by the economy and not as much was raised from them as was originally planned. But without them, no, the Olympics wouldn't have been possible, nor would any Olympics since 1948 have been possible except for Moscow and Beijing which were largely state-funded for political reasons.

 

[kbate]

No, ice hockey sucks.

Fixed it.

 

[islandman]

We foot the bill for most of it, if not as taxpayers then as purchasers of National Lottery tickets.

The corporate sponsors were affected by the economy and not as much was raised from them as was originally planned. But without them, no, the Olympics wouldn't have been possible, nor would any Olympics since 1948 have been possible except for Moscow and Beijing which were largely state-funded for political reasons.

Corporate sponsors and sports have had a mutually beneficial, symbiotic relationship for many a decade now. I don't see what the fuss is all about. It's not as though medals are issued to Coke or McDonalds when athletes place.

 

[Saint Peter]

Look at my cock!

http://forum.literotica.com/member.php?u=25487

 

[kbate]

Corporate sponsors and sports have had a mutually beneficial, symbiotic relationship for many a decade now. I don't see what the fuss is all about. It's not as though medals are issued to Coke or McDonalds when athletes place.

Until the day someone wins the, "Coca Cola Long Jumping with a Coke and a Smile Bronze Medal," I won't bitch about the sponsors.

 

[garbage can]

Because the event is made up of people.

But the Libs just told us that corporations are not people, so how can the olympics be people?