Burma Out!! The IOC 2 finger facist

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Subject: Burma Out!! The IOC 2 finger facista salute

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   From Seattle  - to Sydney - to Scotland.

Can you believe that the IOC is sitting right now. 
determining if de Samaranch should be shot at 70?
Is that really the best 5 ring spin that they could 
come up with?.

Only another IOC cover up of its true worth. Isn't 
Samaranch now only an Olympian fall guy?

Olympic Apathy : Now we all begin to wonder, exactly 
how  many of the voting members of the IOC actually 
"lean to the right"? 

Craig, craig.reedie@xxxxxxxxxx seemed to be a nice 
sorta Scots chap, when we asked him before Atlanta,
to "have a word" with his opposite number from Indonesia.
To warn them on our behalf that if they didn't chill out over 
E Timor, at Sydney 2000, Indonesia would be "in trouble".

Craig, nice Scots, chap that is he, then told us that "Yes, 
I mentioned it at Atlanta." 

                But did he? 

Maybe its more Freemasonicite Olympic humbug.
Maybe Craig is still in a Lausanne bathroom, washing 
his 5 ringed fingers.

As during early 1996, we had intervened to bring Atlanta 
a full compliment of nations, one would think that such as 
Mr Reedie, awarded the MBE (or something like that), for 
services to UK sport, and to the British Olympic Association,
would have been grateful. But again, this time re Burma, 
only the interface of his own political acumen and any lack of 
genuine humanitarianism, and later the fully Burma concious 
media, may tell.

          Subject: Samaranch = Fascist?

December 11, 1999
A BOSTON GLOBE EDITORIAL 
Olympian stubbornness  

The president of the International Olympic Committee, Juan Antonio
Samaranch - who has insisted on guiding reform of the corrupt site
selection system over which he presided - has reacted to revived
interest in his fascist past with extraordinary obtuseness.


At a news conference Tuesday, one day after a front-page story in The
Wall Street Journal recounted his ascent under Spanish dictator
Francisco Franco and his opportunistic molting into a diplomat in the
post-Franco era, Samaranch brazenly defended his past and Franco's rule. 
''I have said many times that this was many years ago and you have to be
a Spaniard'' to understand, Samaranch said. ''I was with many, many
Spaniards with Franco. He had the support of many countries around the
world. He did three exceptional things: He kept Spain out of the war, he
transformed Spain into an industrial country, and he chose Spain's next
leader, the king.''
The relevance of Samaranch's paean to Franco resides not in its
revelation of antidemocratic political leanings but in its illustration
of a pattern of behavior. There have been many eminent figures who
served one of this century's tyrannies, saw the light, admitted their
errors, and worked to rehabilitate themselves. 
Our quarrel with Samaranch at present is not his allegiance to Franco
but his allegiance to a corrupt and venal system that brought shame and
discredit on the Olympics during his wayward stewardship.
This weekend, at a meeting of the full membership of the IOC's general
assembly, Samaranch will be seeking approval of 50 proposed reforms of
the organization that he directed during its descent into corruption.
The reforms will include term limits for officers, age limits, and a
possible prohibition against members visiting cities bidding to be
selected as hosts for the Olympic Games. 
On Wednesday, Samaranch will be testifying to Congress about his
reforms. The one reform he has refused to make would be the most
salubrious: his resignation.
This story ran on page A18 of the Boston Globe on 12/11/99. 

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btw : Did we send you the shots of the Catalonian Marques in 
his  Franco uniform? yes?    Oh goodski.

Next week? Craig in his kilt.. 
Who said the Scots were a "mean bunch"? ;-)


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of HH the Dalai Lama, the Shan Democratic Union,  film maker John 
Pilger, the Free Burma Coalition,  author Alan Clements, Dennis 
Skinner MP, Tony Benn MP, Ann Clwyd MP, Congress-woman  
Maxine Waters,  Socialist Workers' Party,  Dr and Welsh rugby  
star JPR Williams, Hendrix  bassist Noel Redding,  S African jazz 
pianist Abdullah Ibrahim,  All Burma Students Democratic 
Organisation,  All Burma Students Democratic Front, Tasmanian 
Trades & Labour Council,  SACP (South African Communist Party),
COSATU,  Tim Gopsill, editor.  The.Journalist@xxxxxxxxxx, and 
numerous others.   

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