Olympic Cola

It's good that I'm so busy with work and my PhD thesis these days. This way, I have an excuse to isolate myself from what happens in our country, and newsclips such as this seamlessly flow.

Now you must have clicked that link, but just in case you haven't I'll report the highlights.

Municipalities in Rome protest at sponsor of Olympic flame.

I'll explain this to you: Coke is sponsoring the winter Olympic torch's northbound journey through Italy, and inept, corrupt, incompetent and populist Roman administrators have decided to exit the anonimity that their mediocrity has pushed them into and taken an easy target: Coca Cola.

Rome’s eleventh municipal authority [...] claims that the Olympic sponsor is breaching workers’ rights in Colombia, and will not allow the flame to pass through its territory

Ah, that's the trick. They have the poor Colombians work long hours corking bottles, so their name should not be seen in Rome. Just release those poor workers and send them back to the heavens of coke (the powdery one) fields! they'll love it there!

The deputy mayor, Maria Pia Garavaglia, was quick to say that “municipality chairs can wage all the political battles they want to, but they cannot impose them on citizens, who risk losing out”.

Long live people like you Maria Pia! I'm only afraid that you'll lose elections because you make way too much sense. To the administrators who had this brilliant idea: whether the torch goes by Rome or not is none of your fucking business - go back stamping the useless forms you make us fill every day!


“I attended a meeting in Bari with three hundred local administrators, mayors and councillors”, said the chair of the eleventh Roman municipality, Communist Refoundation member Massimiliano Smeriglio, “and our protest was unanimously approved.

There we go! what is the name of the party that this connection element between mankind and apes belongs to?

Communist refoundation!

Now of course communists are very well known for their widespread respect of human rights, therefore this chap has all rights to complain about Coke saving money on Colombian workers' canteen food. But this is not all...

There is, for example, a motion before the regional council, which will be voted in a few days. It calls for a committee of inquiry to find out whether what Colombian trade unionists say is true, in other words whether Coca-Cola is breaching human rights.

Now Lazio, the region where Rome is built, is densely populated with thieves, prostitutes, drug traffickers, burglars, windscreen washers, people smugglers, car burners, members of parliament and other assorted criminals. Why the hell are these people worrying about some guys in Colombia that have found a proper job that takes them away from the misery and poverty that they have on the street?

I have a proposal: let's send this piece of a Communist genius to Colombia to investigate what is really happen, and then arrange some kidnapping so that he never comes back again. Actually I think I'm being too optimistic here: the kidnappers would pay us to take such scum back.