-By Warner Todd Huston
NBC5 TV found a rather amusing new website devoted to Chicago’s bid for the Olympics. Oh, the new site backs a bid to get the Olympics, alright. It backs Rio de Janeiro’s bid instead of Chicago’s. And I, for one, am 100% on this website’s side!
The main page of ChicagoansForRio.com reads “Chicagoans for Rio 2016” and goes on to cheer for Rio to get the games.
It would be exciting to host the Olympics here in Chicago. But you know what would be even better? Rio de Janeiro. Just let Rio host the 2016 Olympics. We don’t mind. Honest.
The site features all sorts of stats to prove that Chicago has too much crime and also has a video of residents telling watchers that they do not want the Olympics here. One fellow explains why he doesn’t want the games: “A lot of crowds, a lot of traffic, they’re going to build the facilities in parks so the people won’t be able to use the parks, and the city won’t be any better off than it was before.”
The site also features some wonderful photos of the Athens, Greece venues built to host the Olympics and shows them to be crumbling and unused and, therefore, a complete waste of money. Is this what we want for Chicago? Giant stadiums built for no good long standing purpose?
I agree wholeheartedly with this website. These games will be a horrible, horrible mess for this city. Not only will it be a monstrous disruption to the lives of residents, but the final bill will burden many generations to come. And this god-awful mess will simply be one more way for the criminal “king” Daley regime to enrich the Mayor’s buddies with all sort of government largess.
The Olympics will not benefit the city of Chicago and its citizens in the least.
So, I support this new website. May ChicagoansForRio.com succeed in its goal to help Rio beat Chicago out for this useless boondoggle.
GO RIO!!
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as NewsBusters.org, RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, TheRealityCheck.org, RedState.com, Human Events Magazine, AmericanDailyReview.com, and the New Media Journal, among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events and is currently the co-host of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conservatism” heard on BlogTalkRadio. Warner is also the editor of the Cook County Page for RedCounty.com.
He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book “Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture” which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of PubliusForum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston
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