[The Yen Man]

Originally Posted by Flash Walken

What the #### is wrong with you? These mental exercises do little but embolden the idea that sports on tv > human rights.

Do you fly to Africa to feed homeless people? Oh, you must not care about starvation.

You mean, what if I was guaranteed the rights that this law strips away, would I go protest the guaranteed rights that aren't in question? What.The.Fark.

I am protesting right now and I don't need to take time off work or fly to moscow fulfill your stunningly myopic criteria for giving a damn.

Shockingly, I know, I am also someone that thinks the way Canada treats their own athletes is appalling. Having said that, as it is my tax dollars at work that is funding significant portions of their training and travel costs, I don't think that money should go to enriching a homophobic dictatorship that is threatening to arrest these very athletes should they appear in some way at the discretion of the commandant or czar or whatever, to be gay.

10 years of athletic dedication is worth giving up to protest someone giving up 5 years of incarceration for something that is legally defended in our founding Charter. I care deeply for Canada's athletes, and I would say, between Olympics, probably more so than those who are crowing the line of "the poor athletes", but, pursuing a sport for fun--out of choice--does not trump being arrested for suspicion of something determined by birth.

Apologies for being potentially offensive.

Again, says the guy who's not asked to give up anything significant. Easy to give a damn when you're not the one being asked to give it up.