The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games media coverage has been dominated by evocative but pre-packaged images, from Nikki Webster's initiatory opening ceremony journey to sprinter Cathy Freeman's triumphant 400m race. Both brought Australia to a standstill. But there are plenty of stories that Seven (Australia's official Olympics television network), NBC and CNN don't want you to grok.
To glimpse the 'real' Green Games, you must turn to activist and underground media. Groups such as the Anti-Olympic Alliance, Protest 2000, and People Ingeniously Subverting the Sydney Olympic Farce have been documenting the questionable business deals, environmental policy shortfalls, global 'selling' of indigenous Aboriginal culture, and last-minute legislation. Remember the street crackdown provisions of the Home bush Bay Area Act?
The Sydney Games won't resolve overnight the historical wild-cards that plague Australia, from debate over its indigenous 'Stolen Generation' and mandatory sentencing policies to its lack of technological industry investment and growing Third World status (according to Council on Foreign Relations member and geopolitical strategist Samuel P. Huntington). Dissent is swelling in Australia, but you wouldn't hear about it from CNN. Discover what NBC doesn't want you to know about, and Salon.com correspondents haven't uncovered yet. 'The Dream' is fast turning into an Olympics nightmare.
In 1993, after fierce bidding, the year 2000 Olympic Games were awarded to AUSTRALIA over China by the International Olympic Committee, allegedly because of a better human rights record. But is this so? You be the judge. Here is a list of crimes by the white racist regime: Mass murder (genocide) of 500,000 Aboriginal (black) people and the continued theft of their lands. These murders continue with deaths in H.M.S prison service and police custody to the present day. AUSTRALIA is based on the rape and theft of the lands of Aboriginal peoples. Even the courts of the country are recognizing this, but the government is openly defying the court system, as well as international law and public opinion by refusing to abide by the Mabo, Wik, and other rulings granting native land title.
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