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The Rat
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Posted - 09/12/2013 :  21:03:09  Show Profile  Visit The Rat's Homepage Send The Rat a Private Message  Reply with Quote

For all the Olympic Committee members, like Dick Pound (don't bother coming back to Canada once they're over), who are falling all over themselves to go along with Russia's anti-gay stance at the upcoming games, here's some quotes from your own Olympic Charter (Emphasis added):

"Fundamental Principles of Olympism
1. Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind. Blending sport with culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy of effort, the educational value of good example, social responsibility AND RESPECT FOR UNIVERSAL FUNDAMENTAL ETHICAL PRINCIPLES.
2. The goal of Olympism is to place sport at the service of the harmonious development of humankind, with a view to promoting a peaceful society CONCERNED WITH THE PRESERVATION OF HUMAN DIGNITY.
4. The practice of sport is a human right. EVERY INDIVIDUAL MUST have the possibility of practising sport, WITHOUT DISCRIMINATION OF ANY KIND and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play.
6. ANY FORM OF DISCRIMINATION with regard to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics, GENDER OR OTHERWISE is incompatible with belonging to the Olympic Movement."

Olympic Charter


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You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II

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pleco
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Posted - 09/13/2013 :  05:59:27   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit pleco's Homepage Send pleco a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Money talks, bullshit walks.

by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart.
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HalfMooner
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Philippines
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Posted - 09/13/2013 :  15:00:28   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
This has been a repulsive situation. Ultra-bigots in Russia, led by a KGB trained autocrat who is now kissing the asses of the Russian Orthodox hierarchs, pass these "anti-gay propaganda" laws. And most nations are actually enabling this bullshit! When the Jihadis strike the Winter Olympics in Sochi, people will be distracted and forget about the Russian bigotry law.

And look at how our American "patriotic" Christian Right is obscenely trying to help Putin the Terrible:
Thanks to the reporting of Brian Camenker and his pro-family organization, MassResistance, Russian authorities have been warned that radical American and Canadian homosexual activists intend to disrupt the winter Olympics in Russia. MassResistance attended the national homosexual journalists' meeting in Boston late last month and recorded an activist announcing plans, with specifics omitted in order to avoid tipping off the Russians.
Traitors.

Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive.
Edited by - HalfMooner on 09/13/2013 15:01:04
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