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From: beano@alphacrucisradio.org
"Terry Hall" wrote in message
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>
> SON OF SAMMY? - BACK TO THE FUTURE FOR THE IOC
>
> What a difference 20 years makes in other ways, too. In 1994, the
> Winter Olympics were being held in Norway, one of the world's
> most socially progressive countries. In 2014, the Olympics will
> be held in Russia, one of the world's least socially progressive
> countries. In 1994, the Soviet empire had just collapsed and
> hopes were high that Russia would eventually become a westernized
> democratic nation. Today, those hopes are dashed as under
> Vladimir Putin it now sinks back towards reverting to an
> oppressive dictatorship, where opponents are harassed and put in
> jail on trumped-up charges by kangaroo courts (think Pussy Riot).
>
It was not the protest itself that got them in trouble, it is where
they did it. Because they did it inside a church, religious
conservatives, who can be just as bad as religious nuts in
America, wanted them prosecuted under "blasphemy laws"/
What is happening now in Russia is what the Christian Right
tried to do in America in the 1990s. And America could have
had a hard-line fundamenalist Christian government, much like
what is happening in Russia now, in 1996. It is just fortunate
that the American people had the good sense NOT to elect
Bob Dole as president. The "United Russia" party is very
much like the Republican party was in 1996. In the years
I have done Internet radio, there was nothing more frightening
that the 1996 Republican National Convetion, where people
were waving banners with the Emblems of the Christian
Coalition, Family Research Council, and American
Family Association. I think that scared the American
people when they saw that on TV, and that caused
Clinton to get re-elected.
I even had a professor, in 1995, when I was at CSUS,
that said "dammit this country is beginning to look like
Germany just before the second world war". He likened
the Christian Right to the Nazis of 1930s Germany.
Russia has not gone quite that far. At least when they
made their own verions of SOPA and CDA, they did
not make foreign websites subject to prosecution in
Russia.
However, no matter what country the Christian Right
is in, it is wrong. Such groups that now exist in Russia,
Canada, Australia, and the USA are WRONG for
their respective countries and WRONG for the WORLD.
And the Christian Right had all gambling outlwed in
Russia a few years ago, whereas it had been legalised
since the fall of the USSR in 1992.
And I don't think that was lost on Kim Jong Un
when he allowed a major gambling casino in the
northeastern part of North Korea, near
Chonjin, to open. It is just as convenient
for people in Russia, as it is for people in
China, and I would imagine quite a few
gamblers from Russia come over the border
gamble, since Russia outlawed gambling.
> Perhaps nowhere is this better illustrated than in the area of
> gay rights. While other countries (including Norway) legalize
> same-sex marriage, and even the Pope is calling for tolerance for
> gays, in Russia they are increasingly persecuted in the same way
> that Jews were in another European country a few decades earlier.
When it comes to persecution, one alternate history scenario,
that is also part prophecy says that something like that will
happen in the US later on in the decade, when a megalomaniac
leader will get elected, and become a 21st century version of
Hitler, using Christianity as an excuse for his evil. Jews, Muslims,
Gays, Atheists, Communsts, Socialists, and just about anyone
not straight, white, and Christian, will be persecuted. This
megalomaniac will bring the rest of the world to having to
do the unthinkable, the rest of the world having to go to war
with an America gone rogue. This is right, there will be a WWIII,
which will result in America brekaing into several new countries,
and a three-way Cold War starting.
This new, and terrible world war, while it will not
go to total worldwide nuclear, will. when the "Christian
Republic Of America" attacks Britan, will result
in the deaths of enough of the Royal Family, where
Prince William will become the next King Of England.
He will be the closest survivor in the line to the throne,
and will be crowned as William V.
There will be the "Moscow Pact", "Beijing Pact" and
"Ljubliana Pact". If you are currently living in Califonia,
Arizona, Utah, or Nevada, you might want to consider
going somewhere else, because the part of the world,
after this coming WWIII, will be a dictatorship that
will be an ally of a "Unified Chinese State" that will
overthrow the Communists, sometime in this decade,
and become a superpower after the coming WWIII.
In addition to the Unified Repubhlic of America,
the otther new nations on the continent, all Ljunliana
Pact members would have been Cascadia, Florida,
the CSA, the Unified Republic Of America, and a
much smaller United States Of America, consider
of the Mid-Atlantic states, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois
and Indiana. as well as a truncated Confederate
States (the original CSA, minus Texas, Oklahoma,
Kemtucky, Florida, and Virginia).
After the coming WWIII, that is prophecised,
I think Michelle Kwan would ultimately end
up the head of the figure skating federation in
an independent Florida.
I could see a this forthcoming break up of the
USA as an opportunity for Tonya to be a
coach. The Cascadian federation could permit
Tonya to be a coach, and there is NOTHING
that the figure skating association in what will be
left of the USA will be able to DO or SAY about
it. The current USFSA ban prevents her from becoming
anyone's "coach of record", but an indepdendent
Cascadia could allow her to be a coach, and the
"rump" American state that will be left after this
coming war will not be able to do anything
about it.
If the Republic Of Florida existed now, I think
the Cristina Gao would certianly be skating for
that country in the upcoming Olympics.
I can say that if the "Unified Republic Of America"
existed now, it would only have ONE slot in the
Ladies event for the upcoming Olympics". I figure
this, because that country's World ladies team, this
past season, wouild have been Gracie Gold and
Rachael Flatt. With Gracie finsihing 6th, and Rachael
likely finshing 20th, the URA would have only had
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