2010 Olympic Rant #36 where's my security check dudes? · 6.10.09 by colin newell
A Langara College student says she was shocked to be approached outside class by Olympic security officers and questioned about her friendship with a high-profile opponent of the 2010 Winter Games.
Welcome to Nazi Columbia folks…
But wait!? Back up a second.
Where is my Integrated Security Unit shake-down? I have been happily blogging the anti-Olympic one-trick sermon for several years now (I am the #1 olympic rant blogger on Google Canada – nothing I am proud of folks… Ok, maybe a little.)
And not even a nibble.
But why? Maybe just maybe it is my age (over 40…) and my employment history (DND, Canadian Armed Forces and University…)
I have been paying my taxes since the age of 18… on every penny I have ever earned.
Dang. I am a good Canadian.
Think Colin, think.
I know. I threw a rock into a street once (when I was 12) and was questioned by a Saanich police officer – I lied to him. I said I wasn’t throwing rocks. I was.
Come on. Check me out guys. I am trouble. Big trouble. :-)
Actually… having a background in National security, I kind of figure that the I.S.U. is sort of doing their jobs, weeding out the nutters, interviewing the friends of the potential nutters – even the suspect ones.
Because in the off chance someone is going to do something stupid or violent – or even thinking about inciting something objectionable… there are people that need to know.
Guess that makes me kind of an apologist…
But I have sat on both sides of the security fence.
And I guess that is why I won’t be getting a visit from the big boys.
What I am doing, like thousands of other British Columbians… is engaging in an evolved form of protest – Culture Jamming – it’s peaceful and it takes many forms, most of which are unstoppable by the Establishment; conversation, blogging, tweeting, webbing, meeting and and fomenting a peaceful organization of groups large and small.
I was in Vancouver for a week while my wife was at a conference – I exercised my right to culture jam by engaging everyone I met in an open and honest conversation about the blight of the 2010 Olympics and the rot within VANOC and the IOC. Only one person got their hackles up and she was a member of VANOC – no surprise there folks.
So. Message to the Olympic I.S.U.: You can meet up with all the young people (and older people) you want… to do your job.
But you will not be able to stop us from doing our job.
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