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Op zondag 5 juni 2011 03:59 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:Ik vind dat ze niet moeten zeuren. F1 heeft niets met politiek te maken. Gewoon dat gaspedaal intrappen en niet proberen goedkoop te scoren.
In dit geval heeft heeft het alles met politiek te maken. Waarom denk je dat Bahrein per se wil dat de race door gaat? Omdat ze ontzettend van de sport houden?
Nee, ze willen dat de wereld beelden als deze maar snel vergeet:
Ze willen laten zien dat er zogenaamd echt he-le-maal niets aan het handje is... het wordt gewoon een propaganda show voor een regime dat net met automatische wapens zijn eigen bevolking neergemaaid heeft.
Mosley heeft hier iets zinnigs over te zeggen, en ik ben het volledig met hem eens:
We will be told that holding the Grand Prix in October will show that, once again, Bahrain is a happy, peaceful country. So why is it wrong for Formula One to go along with this?
Why is this different to running an event in any number of countries where people are oppressed, kept in poverty, held without trial and mistreated (or worse) in prison?
Surely the line has to be drawn when a sporting event is not mere entertainment in a less-than-perfect country, but is being used by an oppressive regime to camouflage its actions.
If a sport accepts this role, it becomes a tool of government. If Formula One allows itself to be used in this way in Bahrain, it will share the regime's guilt as surely as if it went out and helped brutalise unarmed protesters.
It is worth remembering that the trouble in Bahrain began with peaceful protest. The crowds were not seeking the removal of the ruling family, merely a move towards democracy and rights for the Shia majority comparable to those enjoyed by the Sunni elite.
These modest demands were soon met with brutal repression. Demonstrators were shot dead. Protesters were imprisoned and, according to credible reports, hideously mistreated, even tortured and killed.
Doctors and nurses who treated the injured were themselves arrested and imprisoned. When these measures failed to crush the protests, the Bahrain government called in troops from neighbouring Saudi Arabia to crush all opposition with naked force.
Having carried out these horrific acts, the Bahrain government wants to clean up its image. That's where the Grand Prix comes in. By running the race they hope to show the world the troubles were just a small, temporary difficulty and everything is now back to normal.
By agreeing to race there, Formula One becomes complicit in what has happened. It becomes one of the Bahrain government's instruments of repression.
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Bovendien, als fan zou je elke extra race moeten verwelkomen.
Oh, dat moet van jou?

Ik denk dat de meeste fans zelf wel kunnen bepalen of ze een race verwelkomen of niet.
[ Bericht 21% gewijzigd door roelofjan op 05-06-2011 10:56:44 ]