I heard that they ceased killing & injuring one another in Syria just to watch the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games….Oh no actually they didn’t because there might have been a giant song & dance in London there’s still a lot of bad crap going in the world which a giant song & dance not going prevent happening.

Funny how the Opening Ceremony didn’t begin until 9pm, one might think that has something to do with fitting in with TV schedules in the United States; though I had heard that Danny Boyle who directed the Opening Ceremony had wanted the show to commence at nightfall for people to enjoy the full spectacle of the show etc.

The first dance section about Britain progressing from the industrial revolution into the modern age certainly was spectacular & it was certainly was good that as part of that there was a tribute to the Women’s suffragette movement & that Britain had benefited from immigration & multiculturalism (bet a few Tories were miffed at that bit).

To herald the arrival of Queen Lizzie there was that film of James Bond bringing her to the Opening Ceremony, well I’m not a big fan of James Bond & nor am I a big fan of the monarchy, in fact being an rabid republican I definitely didn’t enjoy that part of the show. I’m never going to enjoy being reminded that I’m still ruled over by an individual who does so because they happen to of been born with the right silver spoon up their arse & I’m never going enjoy being reminded that there are still way too many people who blindly worship that fact.

Then there was that dance section celebrating the NHS, which of course I & millions in Britain would appreciate but I bet the likes of Fox News might very well neglect reporting in that section being as its not the biggest fan of universal healthcare.

I could either say that the inclusion of the Sex Pistols in the musical montage celebrating the last 40 odd years of British rock music was giving credence to the fact that the Sex Pistols are of importance to British rock music (which they are) or that the inclusion of the Sex Pistols just shows how the Sex Pistols have very much become part of the establishment. John Lydon might now flog butter & appears on Question Time, but there are still those of us like me who believe Punk Rock should be about being antiestablishment & challenging the status-quo, not participating in the corporatist gangbang establishment. I seriously object to Punk Rock being camped up as part of the Olympic Opening Ceremony to sell hamburgers & sneakers & to endorse the participation of teams in the Olympics with hideously tyrannical regimes.

The parade of national teams always makes me feel sad because you just realise how many of those national teams are from countries with tyrannical & oppressive regimes. Usually any country with the words ‘Democratic Republic’ in its title usually means that country is far from democratic. I make no apologies for not wanting teams from the likes of North Korea & China to be attending London 2012, because by allowing those countries to send teams to compete at London 2012 is to me endorsing regimes whose system of governance has little respect for human rights & liberty.

There was a point when in the parade of the teams of nations competing at London 2012, I actually thought it wasn’t London 2012 but Berlin 1936. When the German team were parading somebody in the stands gave them what appears to be a nazi salute! Now the elderly gentlemen who was seen doing so wasn’t sitting far from members of the Royal Family & so he might have had a few too many to drink in the VIP cooperate hospitality suite, even so one would think he should have been ejected from the stands & yet there’s no reports to my knowledge he was, yet if somebody had displayed the Tibetan flag as a protest to China’s occupation they would have been.

As for the close of the Openning ceremony with Paul McCartney performing Hey Jude, well Paul was never my favourite Beatle & Hey Jude was never my favourite Beatle song.