EPISODE · Jul 29, 2021 · 30 MIN
Episode 3349: TOKYO OLYMPICS FOCUSING ON COVID - BUT WHAT ABOUT TERRORISTS?
from Renegade Talk Radio · host Renegade Talk Radio
There have been three fatal terror attacks on the Olympic Games since 1970, starting with the Munich Olympics. Is Tokyo at risk? With the specter of Covid19 overshadowing the Olympics, Tokyo called for a state of emergency and enacted precautions from banning spectators to manufacturing anti-sex beds. But, little is known as to what precautions they’ve taken to ’ban terrorists’. The Munich Massacre, at the 1972 Olympics, dispelled the imageof innocence that had surrounded the Games until then. Here,Palestinian terrorists swooped into the Athletes' Village and killed Israeli athletes and coaches. Tokyo2020 has made headlines regarding terrorists, as well, but not (at least so far) in regard to violence. There is a call for Iranian athletes to be banned by the International Olympics Committee because of their abuse of athletes - including with executions, and their allowing an actual terrorist to participate and win!You will also hear about competing theories as to whether the Olympics is a more compelling target for terrorists or a lesser one, and what makes it so. This year, the IOC finally - after 49 years of requests from the Munich victims’ families - agreed to honor them in the Opening Ceremony - to the displeasure of terrorists - making Tokyo2020 a particularly attractive target.
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There have been three fatal terror attacks on the Olympic Games since 1970, starting with the Munich Olympics. Is Tokyo at risk? With the specter of Covid19 overshadowing the Olympics, Tokyo called for a state of emergency and enacted precautions from banning spectators to manufacturing anti-sex beds. But, little is known as to what precautions they’ve taken to ’ban terrorists’. The Munich Massacre, at the 1972 Olympics, dispelled the imageof innocence that had surrounded the Games until then. Here,Palestinian terrorists swooped into the Athletes' Village and killed Israeli athletes and coaches. Tokyo2020 has made headlines regarding terrorists, as well, but not (at least so far) in regard to violence. There is a call for Iranian athletes to be banned by the International Olympics Committee because of their abuse of athletes - including with executions, and their allowing an actual terrorist to participate and win!You will also hear about competing theories as to whether the Olympics is a more compelling target for terrorists or a lesser one, and what makes it so. This year, the IOC finally - after 49 years of requests from the Munich victims’ families - agreed to honor them in the Opening Ceremony - to the displeasure of terrorists - making Tokyo2020 a particularly attractive target.
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