The Olympic games have historically been bound to politics. The bright light of the current international upset over the Beijing version of this politicized event is simply this: Some intelligent people are waking up to the new corporate fascism that is becoming a worldwide threat.
The current Olympic games are still patterned on the 1936 Olympics in fascist Berlin. The torch ritual was resurrected for that event by Hitler's Reich, which patterned itself on lunatic concepts of the Greco-Roman origins of the Third Reich.
Yes, Olympics and Fascism have walked hand-in-hand before.
One truly Greco-Roman concept was this: Give the masses bread and circus, and they will be distracted from the corruption which enslaves them.
