Olympic Response

This is not an April Fool's joke. 

I got a reply from my letter to outgoing International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach asking - more like demanding, really - that the 2024 Olympics be moved out not only out of Los Angeles but out of the United States entirely because of Trump and his crimes against the international community, that pompous euphemism for the world. I got a short but decisive reply from Christian Klaue, the IOC's director of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs. the letter read as follows:

Dear Mr. Maginnis:

Thank you very much for letter addressed to the IOC.  We have taken note of your opinion.

The IOC, of course, is respecting the democratic decisions of the citizens of the United States of America.

Uhh . . . yeah.

The International Olympic Committee awarded the 2028 Olympics to Los Angeles back in 2017, when the thinking was that Trump would be long gone by then.  The committee members got exactly the situation they had hoped to avoid.

Respecting the democratic decisions of the voters, eh?  The IOC awarded the 1936 Games to Berlin before the 1932 national elections in Germany and before President Paul von Hindenburg named Adolf Hitler chancellor, By the end of 1935, all opposition parties had been dissolved, the Dachau concentration camp had opened, the Night of the Long Knives had taken place, the Nuremberg Laws were handed down, and President Hindenburg had died, allowing Hitler to combine the duties of the German presidency with the chancellorship and create the office of Führer.  He used the Berlin Olympics as a showcase for National Socialist values, and despite black American track stars Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe, Germany won more medals than any other country at Berlin.  Hitler was pleased with the outcome.

I understand that the IOC respected the results of the 1979 Soviet legislative elections and went ahead with the 1980 Olympics, awarded to Moscow in 1974, which was full of cheating by Olympic officials, as well as crippled by the U.S.-led boycott to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.  The results of the 1979 elections were decisively in favor of the Communists, which should have been expected, given that the Commies ran unopposed.   

Speaking of boycotts, Canadians and Europeans are boycotting American tourism, mainly because they're afraid of getting picked up by the authorities for saying anything bad about Trump in public and getting arrested by Kash Patel's FBI, the new secret police.  If the IOC won't move the 2028 Games out of America, other major industrialized nations - even the British, who have never boycotted an Olympiad ever - may choose not to send teams to LA.  I'm not going to advocate that, however.  I think it would be inappropriate for me to urge foreign ambassadors to the United States to relay the idea of a 2028 Olympics boycott to their leaders back home.  What to do about sending teams to the U.S. to compete in the Los Angeles Olympics under Trump is a decision only those leaders can make.  Besides, Elon Musk might have me arrested.  

In the meantime, Zimbabwean swimming champion Kirsty Coventry, who is white is and the sports minister of the black-majority government of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia), became the first woman, the youngest person (at 41), and the first person from an African nation to be elected IOC president.  I'm not going to write a new letter to Ms. Coventry to repeat the same request I made of Herr Bach.  But I do want to say something in the open to the new IOC president:  Honey, you're gonna be miserable.