What we have witnessed in the past few days are some unfortunate and heavy handed decisions by individuals trying to sanitize an imperfect event. Their actions have not served the long term goal of the Olympics, which should be to strive for improvement with each one of the Games. Sadly, some are trying to enforce perfection, which just creates more problems, for “the perfect is the enemy of the good.”
For seven years, the people of London has been preparing for the Olympics. The city has been scrubbed clean and new facilities were constructed for the big event. City leaders have been very proud of the massive effort that it took to stage the Olympics.
Unfortunately, there have been a number of real problems such as a lack of security personnel and hundreds of empty seats at numerous events. The embarrassing footage has forced organizers to fill in seats with members of the British military.
When Mitt Romney called the problems “disconcerting,” he was savagely criticized in the British and American press. However, CNN’s Piers Morgan, a native of Guildford, Surrey, England, defended Romney and said the criticisms were entirely justified.
It seems many in Britain are a bit too sensitive about any type of criticism of the Olympic Games. Nonetheless, for any type of massive event there are bound to be problems and critics, who were all over the Internet after the opening ceremonies, produced by liberal filmmaker Danny Boyle. One conservative British lawmaker, Aidan Burley, blasted the opening ceremonies as “leftie multicultural crap.” Immediately, Burley was criticized by his fellow conservative lawmakers who were incensed about his comments. Yet, Burley was making a solid point about a production which featured a depressing defense of some British socialist policies such as the healthcare system.
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