When Team USA women’s hockey goalie Jessie Vetter takes to the ice next month at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, her mask will be missing something.
Namely, the U.S. Constitution.
The International Olympic Committee, citing regulation, has required the 28-year-old goalie to remove an inscription bearing “We the People” on a custom mask made for her.
The mask’s artist, Ron Slater, told FoxNews.com that he believes the IOC sees it as “propaganda” promoting the United States over other countries – aanathema to an event in which all athletes are regarded equally.
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Considering that the entire Olympics is an exercise in propaganda from start to finish for every government involved, with the athletes as mere props in the play, this is actually rather funny.
ReplyDelete:) Good point.
DeleteIs there another country in the world that has provided the opportunity for people advance themselves by the fruits of their labor? In the USA, men are created equal. It is not gubbermint's job to maintain that equality. Apparently Olycomm thinks it is.
ReplyDeleteIt is not gubbermint's job to maintain that equality
DeleteDern tootin'!
They should have simply told them to stick it, the mask stays. To fight it further would simply provide more positive publicity for the team, and the country. I don't know why people don't just refuse to follow foolish commands from those supposedly in authority more often.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why people don't just refuse to follow foolish commands from those supposedly in authority more often.
DeleteBeaten into submission by our Communist government, I guess.
Well, I'm not quite there yet. I'd have told them to F off, and then given the bureaucrat sent to tell me a knee to the plums.
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