I understand the message did not follow the Subject. For what it's
worth, here it is again.
Carl
I'm boycotting the summer Olympics.
2 reasons:
1. I will not support games that are held in a nation in which a coup
has removed the democratically elected president.
2. I refuse to honor the decision of the Olympic Committee in banning
the entire Russian Olympic team rather than punishing the offenders.
This primitive system of "teaching them a lesson by punishing them
all" has been proven to create more trouble than it solves. If we are
to support the banning of an entire nation for drug abuse, then we
should follow up by calling off the Olympic Games, to "teach all
participants a lesson".
In America's professional sports, an athlete caught drugging is banned
from the game. And the team continues to play. Under the Olympic
Committee's model, the entire team should be "taught a lesson" and be
banned for the remainder of the season.
But still, my major objection is that by holding the Olympic Games in
Rio, the nations of the world are endorsing a government that came
into power through a coup.
We Americans in the good old USA, should know first hand what happens
when the presidency is stolen from the people. Our own Supreme Court
handed the Office over to a second place, third rate candidate, George
Bush II. And look where that got us.
Carl Jarvis
