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    • July 21, 2012 6:14 AM CDT
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      So after the controversy of the Olympics in China you would think it's safe to say that the London 2012 Olympics would show how the West does freedom.


      Well it seems that London has more military personnel on the streets than Beijing. It's a known fact that the UK has more CCTV cameras per head than any other country in the world. But it seems that our free market capitalism is also not as permitting for individual freedom as people might have thought.

      London 2012: Outrage over artist banned from Olympics from the BBC

      Police arrested actors for spilling custard, say Olympic protesters from the Guardian


      If you find any stories that show democracy in action over the Olympics then post them here. UK residents might have to refrain as they might be arrested without charge under suspicion of terrorism which may cause them to miss the Olympics altogether. 

    • August 15, 2012 3:35 PM CDT
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      To be honest the Haters Guide to the Olympics might have been readable if the author was able to cut out the crap about the "British" being jerks. Particularly as some pikey gave him shit about the revolution and a friend of mine was given crap about being English by Americans at a baseball game who thought they were Irish.

      The Rutherford link was pretty accurate. I live in Germany but am amazed every time I go back to the UK. The games certainly showed the very modern London but that's a double edged sword as the almost futuristic convenience that you get there compared to Germany means you can be tracked and traced and found for any crime. And only this week a man has been found guilty under a law set up by the last government banning "extreme" pornography. Had he lived in Germany it wouldn't have been an issue.

      Children of Men (the film) sums it up really well just how easily this technology can be used by a nasty government.

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