[gridlock]

The Olympics have gone beyond being merely stupid, wasteful, and irrelevant to being actively destructive and hostile.

Why does anybody support this tripe?

[DieHard the Hunter]

The Olympics are a sick joke. The RAF’s finest isn’t good enough for them. Real Brits ought to boycott the event in protest.

[Smokin' Joe]

"Never in the history of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few." Winston Churchill.

Whence England?

[George W. Bush]

When you get involved with Olympics and United Nations and such, don't be surprised when they dictate to you what you can and cannot do in your own country.

Get rid of the Olympics. Defund and expel the criminally corrupt United Nations from U.S. soil.

[Bulldawg Fan]

Maybe the olympic organizers would be happier with pilots wearing towels over their heads?

[TLI]

But Olympic bosses have said we might offend foreigners. It’s madness.”

Yes. It is. The entirety of the English should have nothing to do with it. No RAF? Ok, no hotels, no suppliers, no venders, no ticket sales, no attendees, no nothing.

[MNJohnnie]

When I visited England this spring I went on a tour with a British group of the Normandy Battlefields. One of the ladies on the bus told me that they were not allowed to fly the flag outside their homes, like we do here in the USA because “that my offend visitors from other countries”.

England, you are SO screwed

[Riley]

Barmy organisers claim the popular RAF display team’s military background “might offend other nations”.

Where the hell do these idiots come from? Let's try again, here.

Barmy organisers claim the popular RAF display team’s military background “might offend other nations”. might offend a couple of hundred ultra-leftist barking moonbats.

[MarineDad]

"...too militaristically British."

"The Red Arrows are as British as the Queen and London buses."

"It would be a showcase of everything that is great about Britain."

"...performing at the 2012 London Olympics..."

I say, old chap, "WTF???"

It took a real PC whizbang to come up with this one. The British people need so-called "leaders" like these about as much as my dog needs nore fleas.

Imbeciles like this should be held up to the maximum possible public ridicule, then tarred and feathered before being banished to Karachi, where they will feel more "at home."

Max nutter alert!!

[mewzilla]

Why does anybody support this tripe?

Ya got me. I'm just glad NYS taxpayers don't have to foot the bill for this boondoggle. Britain can have it.

[Jonx6]

bump

[CPOSharky]

They are going to “not offend” themselves right into a sharia “republic.”

Let’s see, that “not offend” part of our constitution is right here, uhmm, maybe over here... Oh, there is is, under judicial activism. Sure glad those liberal judges are telling us what’s good for us.

[SC Swamp Fox]

— something incredible and never seen before. It would be a showcase of everything that is great about Britain.

They should consider this: Make sure the Queen's seat is facing Mecca. All the athletes and dancers enter, face Mecca (back to the Queen), then they get on all fours and pound their foreheads into the ground for a while. For the finale they can sacrifice a goat and enjoy a rousing shout of "Death to America".

[tanknetter]

Hmmm ... I wonder what would happen if the Red Arrows were to just "show up" and do their display over the opening ceremonies anyways. "Sorry, chaps ... we were just practicing for an upcoming display. Terribly sorry for interfereing with your event".

Actually, if the Vulcan to the Sky folks get the Vulcan bomber flying again it could [b]LEAD[/b] the Red Arrows formation (the Red Arrows do this sort of thing all the time with historically significant aircraft, like the Red Arrows/Concorde flypasts) right over the Olympic Stadium. Getting to see the IOC p*ss themselves indignant while the Argie team goes absolutly apoplectic would really make for great TV.

[Ruddles]

It’s my impression the Olympics were originally revived with a frosting of military skills like riding, shooting, archery and fencing.

“The Olympics have gone beyond being merely stupid, wasteful, and irrelevant to being actively destructive and hostile.”

Substitute United Nations for Olympics. Same difference.

“Why does anybody support this tripe?”

Inertia.

[MNJohnnie]

Looked it up. Seems such a law was repealed July this year.

So instead of being an arrogantly liar, grow up.

[Non-Sequitur]

Did the Thunderbirds or the Golden Nights perform at the Atlanta Olympics or the LA Olympics? Or the Salt Lake City or Lake Placid Olympics?

[Mr. Silverback]

Ping!

[Minutemen]

The Olympics offend me.

[ccmay]

As the son of an RAF man, I am beyond outrage. I had hoped to take my kids back to the old country for the Olympics, but now I will have to write the organizing committee and tell them to stuff it.

-ccm

[ccmay]

Here's the e-mail I just sent to the British Department for Culture, Media, and Sport, as well as to the 2012 Olympic organizing committee:

Dear Sirs,

The news today reports that your ministry has decided to prevent the Red Arrows from performing at the Olympics, out of a fear of offending foreigners. Well, you have certainly offended at least one foreigner already.

As the son of a Royal Air Force fighter pilot who risked his life in combat to save the country from Hitler, I am furious at this outrageous decision. I had hoped to bring my children back to my father's homeland in 2012 to see the Olympics, but as long as this decision stands, my family and I will not be coming.

Britain will not see a penny of the thousands of pounds I would have spent on this event, unless some charity makes an appeal to purchase large quantities of tar and feathers for application to the hides of the despicable scum who made this decision.

I encourage everyone who feels as I do to let Lord Coe know:

London 2012

And by all means, tell the government jobsworths what you think too:

Department for Culture, Media, and Sport

I am as angered by this as by anything the multi-culti nitwits in British government have ever done, and that's saying something.

-ccm