Does this make sense to anyone?

[cjwilhelmi]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20070 ... itors_ytop

[KnoxVegas]

This is common when it comes to cities/countries and the Olympics. With the "eyes of the world", their shortcomings are not something that they want brought to light.

It happened in Atlanta just prior to the '96 games when they made homelessness virtually illegal. http://www.greenleft.org.au/1996/240/13909 SLC did the same thing.

China has a lot to gain from the exposure of next summer's games but also just as much to lose. Having worked several Olympics and been "in country" well in advance I have seen this pattern repeated over and over.

[LaxTV_Admin]

Ethan might be right about the "way things work," but honestly, I mean is helping people in need really that bad of a thing???

Well, either way, Ehtan you going to get to travel to Bejiing?? Now that would be AWESOME!!

[KnoxVegas]

Panchito,
Maybe. Who knows. At the moment, I am happy with what I am currently doing. My current clients are incredibly good to me but for the right offer, I would go anywhere. I have been to Green Bay three times in the past six weeks, so you never know.



Back on topic, I will also throw in Mexico's crackdown on student protest in 1968: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/mexico1.htm

As the Olympic Games approached, the PRI and Díaz Ordaz were preparing the country to show foreign visitors that Mexico was politically stable and economically sound. Student unrest grew louder and more violent, however. Student demands included freedom for all political prisoners, dismissal of the police chief, disbanding of the antiriot police, guarantees of university autonomy, and the repeal of the "law of social dissolution" (regulating the punishment of acts of subversion, treason, and disorder). Luis Echeverría Álvarez, the new interior minister, agreed to discuss the issues with the students but changed his mind when they demanded that the meeting be televised. The students, their demands unmet, escalated the scale and frequency of their protests. In late August, they convened the largest antigovernment demonstration to date, rallying an estimated 500,000 protesters in the main plaza of the capital. Seeking to bring a halt to the demonstrations, Díaz Ordaz ordered the army to take control of UNAM and to arrest the student movement leaders.

[bste_lax]

Maybe it is because I just saw Hot Fuzz the other day but I had "for the greater good" stuck in my head after reading this thread.

I make no sense (what's new?), carry on.