British Olympic chiefs are to force athletes to sign a contract promising not to speak out about China's appalling human rights record – or face being banned from travelling to Beijing.
The move – which raises the spectre of the order given to the England football team to give a Nazi salute in Berlin in 1938 – immediately provoked a storm of protest.
The controversial clause has been inserted into athletes' contracts for the first time and forbids them from making any political comment about countries staging the Olympic Games.
It is contained in a 32-page document that will be presented to all those who reach the qualifying standard and are chosen for the team.
From the moment they sign up, the competitors – likely to include the Queen's granddaughter Zara Phillips and world record holder Paula Radcliffe – will be effectively gagged from commenting on China's politics, human rights abuses or illegal occupation of Tibet.
Right, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is one of the world’s grossest human rights violators. The regime created and sustained by Chairman Mao and his successors deprives more than 1.3 billion of the world’s people of their intrinsic human dignity and freedom. This will be like the games in Germany were Hitler used the sports to advertise for his Nazi-leadershit.
So, IOC(international olympics com) said that they would follow the development of the human-rights in China when they chose China as the host for the olympics. The spokesperson, Gerhard Heiberg from Norway said that its not their problem.
And then the other day, our Enligh top clubs is planning on flying all over the world to play the 39th game in front of happy clappy telly fans from Singapore, Melbourne, LA, Tokoyo et al. The day it happens will provide complete and incontrovertible evidence top level football in England is dead as a form of community and civic representation, or as a sport, or even as clubs. Sometimes those in football believe supporters are a captive audience. We aren't. If football ceases to provide us with what we think it should, then we'll pack it in. We do have a choice and it can be exercised. We are supporters, we aren't addicts. We do have choice. It will be exercised.
Premiership football is absolutely rotten to the core. It's top clubs are being run by those whose motivation is simply financial and if anyone believes anything different, I ask them to point to a single Premiership Chairman at any club, who has expressed any kind of dissent to the 39th game bull-shit. They are all, without exception, cunts.
Right, I do have a choise and thats not to follow any olympics. And if the shit in England keeps going, you can bet your arse that I wont pay 100 euro to see one more fuckin match in england...
The fight is on!
