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Originally Posted by zivan56
While this is bad for the workers there, I am more concerned about the power given to the RCMP and military during the Olympics.
Armed soldiers should not be on the streets to reinforce the police.
During the 84 Olympics in Sarajevo they gave them guns with no ammunition just to make sure they wouldn't kill someone for disobeying them or whatnot. I can only imagine what would happen if something like the YVR incident happens again.
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What about Munich? You seemed to have forgotten about that. Post-war West Germany didn't want to appear militaristic, and had a security force that was entirely unarmed. The wall that separated the Olympic Village from the public was only 8 feet tall and was concrete. The terrorists simply climbed over and there were no armed security in the compound.
The Sarajevo comparison is faulty, Bosnia/Herzegovina was politically unstable in 1982 and we all know what happened soon after the 1984 Games.