I wonder what they’ll end up with in return?

Edit: Also since we’re in 2012 now using the Escape from LA poster might have been a little more appropriate. Then again since LA was basically a rip of New York either works I suppose.

We picked up some of that on our own, from other sources, but one cannot deny the UK’s excellence in the area. (Whoever managed to sell a post-cold-war public on a ‘ring of steel’ as a good thing has my grudging respect for a master of his craft…)

While IOC is(at best) a lawful-evil organization with which reasoning is futile; they, unlike the aliens, can only show up in your city if there are quislings on the ground to pave the way…

The IOC is a writeoff, even if you care about ‘olympianism’, it’d be easier to set it on fire and build a new one than the reform the present one. However, even if the IOC didn’t exist at all, the local political forces that allow local collaborators to invite the Olympics in to bulldoze a few unimportant constituents and feed at the trough would still be a menace.

It seems that, unlike in alien invasions, which are exogenous events that have to be solved after the fact by some mixture of implausible heroics and narrative causality, an attack of the Olympics is really a malignant symptom of late-stage political rot getting to the point where the smell starts to attract scavengers.