Shock In Chicago

"Live Reaction: Chicago Loses Olympics Bid"

There was massive shock today at the city of Chicago, Illinois, being eliminated and in the first round, as a choice to host the 2016 Olympics, with Rio, Brazil winning the bid.

Many mainstream newspapers are attributing it to anti-American sentiment in the world, which is an accurate assumption.

Chicago is a great city, full of great people, with lots of wonderful architecture and much to see and do, but the damage the Bush administration has wrought in the world, is still fresh in many people’s minds.

The wars raging in the Middle East, Guantanamo prison abuses, Patriot Act abuses that have foreigners concerned about coming to the States, believing they can be summarily investigated and spied on with their privacy invaded, wiretapped, bugged and followed, coupled with other scandals such as the global economic downturn that began in Corporate America (with offshoots such as Bernard Madoff and R. Allen Stanford) the Erin Andrews hotel hidden camera case and others of the same nature, to do with invasion of privacy, such as the ongoing Hollywood wiretap scandals (Pellicano and others) has left the world dismayed and very concerned. People are literally scared to come to America.

The conduct Bush engaged in and the precedents he set, is not the America the world grew to know and love and it is scaring people all over the world.

The Judiciary Report believes it is not an international rejection of the American people, but of the U.S. government.

Many governments and entities in the world, cannot stomach what the U.S. government has done abroad and at home, committing and permitting acts that broke domestic and international law. Then again, everyday Americans can’t stomach what the government has done either.