Comments on: Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Protest: “RIOT 2010!” – Um, Can You Take It Easy With That?

By: alex

alex — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:14:03 +0000

i’m sorry, all of you who dislike the olymipc games and think that the money should be spent else where, you got to put a sock in it, i agree that the olympics have become a corperation, but you just have to put up with it, and these athleats train very hard, and here most of you here go critisizing them, give them a break, i understand there is much corruption in the olympics, and the gonverment, but we just have to deal with it, and suxk it up

By: Russ

Russ — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:37:59 +0000

Julie McIsaac – Well written, a little common sense goes a long way.

John Defalque – Sounds like a sad story, but how does the olympics fit into you loosing your job or giving up on the job search 13 (Now almost 15) months ago. Almost ALL long term olympic (direct) employment was senior management type positions, the short term event positions like security and dispatch, etc. make up less than 5% of the employment. the biggest employer of the games was contstruction and supply and they NEEDED people and did not do record checks etc as they were not required. So, what is your issue with the games now that we have shown your work situation has no bearing on it.

“….Wall Street started this class war and we must finish it.Take up Kalashnikovs-slaves of the world you have nothing you never will!!!!!” Please re read your staement, if you do not realise that you were way off base and making no sense, then dropping vocational school should not have been you main worry, go back to grammar school. get a life and put in some REAL effort!

other posters – Violence or not – John and others have put me off further responses, but I can offer this past experience. We faced (and still do in some areas) a huge issue with clearcutting forests here in BC during the 80′s. Peaceful demonstrations against clearcutting AND the public discrediting of Eco terrorists putting spikes into trees brought the province and the worlds attention and we now have parks and natural places to enjoy for the future.

Get your heads out of your asses, do for yourself, publically and peacfully bring attention and pressure and you will eventually get your point across. If you damage property and hurt people than you are no better than the Wall Street villians of Johns email.

I could not enjoy that waterhsed I helped save if I knew we had to hurt one single person to save it.

I too was arrested and hauled out of my tree canopy protest and have a record, BUT BUT BUT it has NEVER been an issue in fact it may have helped because when I have had to disclose it and explained what it was from and that it was peacful, I think it made employers and the like respect me more.

Hello to Joey S and the WCWC!

By: U R AN IDIOT

U R AN IDIOT — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:49:33 +0000

Nice photo. Too bad it is not of Vancouver. Not woo misleading is it? Don’t let the truth get in the way of telling your story.

By: john stoddart

john stoddart — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:32:09 +0000

I am and have been against these Olympic Games. They are all about corporate greed and ignoring the plight of homeless and lesser Canadians, especially during this world wide depression. All games seem to employe two seperate sets of bookkeepers. One has a happy face that tells us that the games will cost x amount of dollars and the real one has a grim reality mask like a hangover after a drunken binge. To close parliment so the Harpers and Jeans of the world can have a front row seat is bad enough but the final straw for me was sending a message to the world that our most prized and hounoured Canadian is Wayne (The Godly One) Gretsky. Why did we not just ask Stompin Tom Conners to sing “The good Oloympic games, is the best games you can name” Gretsky is a spoiled cry baby, room temperature IQ athlite who couldn’t wait to abandon Canada for the U.S.A. where he could make more money. In spite of our world posturing we are and always will be what we are, poor country cousins from the north. Finally in our headlong rush to show the world how politically correct and tolerant we are all we manage to do is show ourselves up as exploitable potential victims.

By: stacy

stacy — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:32:12 +0000

Criminal activities and under the table jobs are becoming more common in BC, because it is getting harder to get ahead. A portion of the money used for the Olympics should have supported health care, education, ect…..

By: stacy

stacy — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:25:06 +0000

we are quickly turning into America…..

By: jeff

jeff — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:22:30 +0000

in reference to your comment on the victoria torch relay disruption I was there. what the corporate media had failed to mention is that the marble thrower was unknowen to them and that there were undercover agents among the group. Could have been an “agent provacatour”, but that is just hercey as there is no evidence saying that it wasnt a police officer or saying it was a protestor. You should be careful on sending a report that is just repeated from a corrupted source like the mainstream media. Do the investigations yourself and you will soon learn the real unsanitized truth behind what has occurred. Protest is meraly a source to have issues heard and to express speach without paying a price. there will always be someone trying to discredit this form of expression because it is bad for them and is keeping them in line.

By: Craig Andrew

Craig Andrew — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:11:24 +0000

What a bunch of idiots I saw protesting tonight. “Open the borders there are no illegal aliens” WHO WILL PAY FOR THESE so called immigrants? Not the rich as there was a sign and chants to Kill the rich! Who will employ or fund social housing or medical or education if you kill the rich as it is thier taxes that pay for it all? The crowd I saw there if any pay taxes it is very little. They are the losers of society that expect everything to be given to them. They don’t want to work hard for anything > the one chap calls it a police state lol. Well thank God for police when we have anarchists that want to break the rule,pick fights and tresspass and piss on everyone elses parade. Like tonight with out the police these losers would have walked right in to BC place and ruined it for all.

By: Kevin James

Kevin James — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:22:27 +0000

It is sad indeed when the worlds finest athletes become nothing more than the platform for corporate greed. None of the talk you hear leading up to the Games focuses on the people who have worked for much of their lives honing skills and bodies for the sake of sport. Instead we talk about traffic, security (the Vancouver Police State), advertising, and the money that each and every one of us is shelling out to pay for trucking snow from Manning Park to Cypress to build a ski run. They’ve lifted a smoking ban to appease our guests and pleaded with our residents to stay out of their city. They’ve taken bikes of the Skytrain and wreaked havoc on small business. They’ve demanded that businesses using the word “Olympic” in their names re-name them. They want to re-write Canadian Copyright Law so we can’t even post a picture with their symbols or words on it, even though you can’t point a camera anywhere downtown without seeing them (from PUBLIC PROPERTY, I might add).

Retail products proudly celebrating Vancouver 2010 are made in China – a visit to your local HBC or Zellers store and an inspection of the tags on the merchandise is in order. HBC is a proud sponsor – an American company flogging it’s previously Canadian history and reselling Chinese retail products to help fuel an ailing U.S. economy.

The Olympics are no longer about sport, they are about profit. Those who buy into the theory that this games, like others, will turn a profit need to understand that the profits are not theirs, nor are they likely to see the benefits. Rather than insult the very premise that the Games were founded upon (SPORT), they should just change the name. Perhaps Corporate Games? Greed Games? or Afterthought Games?

By: Iran: Pathway to Democracy

Iran: Pathway to Democracy — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:21:01 +0000

Great

It is true

I invite you to take a look at our site for a speech of a sport writer in Vancouver:
http://iranpathwayrahyafttodemocracy.blogspot.com/
We have also put your link on our site

Cheers