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**wmcelesta** · 08-16-2012, 06:11 AM

Local businesses were strictly forbidden from mentioning the games in any way at all, not unless they're official sponsors, which of course, they can't afford to be. So despite the games going right next door, pubs and cafes were not allowed to scrawl any supportive messages on their blackboards, or invite people to any watching parties, etc.

Are the civil courts and the laws of England on the side of the IOC in this? If a local pub had held an Olympics party, and the IOC said "you must pay us a thousand dollar fine," and the pub owner said," I don't think so" -- what would happen next?

What would have happened if the journalist whose umbrella was seized would have hit the seizers over the head with it, citing "stand your ground?"

(At least you could have an Olympics party at your own house, right? "An Englishman's home is his castle, sir -- while there's Law in England!")

08-16-2012, 06:11 AM	#17
wmcelesta Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 584 Senior Member	Local businesses were strictly forbidden from mentioning the games in any way at all, not unless they're official sponsors, which of course, they can't afford to be. So despite the games going right next door, pubs and cafes were not allowed to scrawl any supportive messages on their blackboards, or invite people to any watching parties, etc. Are the civil courts and the laws of England on the side of the IOC in this? If a local pub had held an Olympics party, and the IOC said "you must pay us a thousand dollar fine," and the pub owner said," I don't think so" -- what would happen next? What would have happened if the journalist whose umbrella was seized would have hit the seizers over the head with it, citing "stand your ground?" (At least you could have an Olympics party at your own house, right? "An Englishman's home is his castle, sir -- while there's Law in England!")
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