With the ‘Olympic Torch Relay’ now being restricted solely to the hosting country; I can only hope this is the first step in the ultimate demise of an evil tradition that was born out of hatred, murder, naïve and not so naïve criminal behaviour.
The ‘Berlin Games’ of 1933 was the very first to have a torch or any form of long distance relay and has no link with the ancient games. Coincidently the carefully planned path chosen by the Nazi’s commencing in Athens, travelling across ‘Eastern Europe’ and finally into Berlin, later bore witness to a path of destruction and all the horrors of war including the mass murder of millions of Jews and many other minority groups. History was yet again used to distort the truth to serve the narcissistic fantasies of a perverted and destructive dictator.
Hitler’s most notorious and hypnotic rallies were conducted at night by ‘flammable’ torch light; he was a master of theatre and used this for his own evil will. Why do we hang on to this insidious tradition that was instituted to exert power and influence and gather military intelligence thus allowing a mad man to be surrounded by yes men who turned the world upside down and all but wiped out a race of people. Do we really wish to continue the celebration of such hatred?
Rusty
(Russell Blore)
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