Last Sunday, King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa attempted appeasing his subjects; Err citizens with apparently what is arguably a very watered down set of changes intended to quell the long sought for political changes in the Kingdom of Bahrain
Yet according to Opposition members, the changes are largely ‘Smoke & Mirrors - symbolic gestures in the King’s extremely slow attempts to bend to his publics demands...
Meanwhile, reports claim that another civil protest has just been broken up by Police using stun-grenades in attempts to flush out anti-government protesters in advance of this weekend’s Air show; as reportedly the clash between citizens and the police are still a daily occurrence...
Yet, not only does Formula 1 desire to return to the Oil-rich Kingdom
And if it isn’t bad enough that Formula 1 plans to return to the Gulf Nations Island
As I know many will argue that the cancellation of Dakar in 2008 and subsequent relocation from Africa to Argentina , Chile and Peru
And I’m quite certain that the comca$t owned Peacock Networks will keep from reporting anything about the peaceful Occupy Indianapolis demonstrations during the forthcoming Superbowl blitz...
Yet, as for Bahrain - it is a total DISGRACE that in only the past weeks the BIC’s Hierarchy has actually reinstated the several hundred employees purged from the race track for having the Chutzpah to publicly disagree with King Hamad’s Monarchy, while countless professional Athlete’s were imprisoned for taking a stand with the people; not to mention the scores of civilians KILLED by what the Commission’s report found to be excessive use of force and torture by the overzealous Riot Police!