U.S. athletes told to cool it at Olympics - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - May 16, 2004: "American athletes have been warned not to wave the U.S. flag during their medal celebrations at this summer's Olympic Games in Athens, for fear of provoking crowd hostility and harming the country's already-battered public image. " Um... how 'bout we just don't go, And pull out of Iraq, and Yugoslavia, and Germany, And stop buying products from overseas, And Oil from the middeast, Turn all corporations over to the nearest labor union leader, Legalize all drugs, and define marriage to mean the union of anything with anything else, And let the world, including the far left here in the US stew in their own juices for a while? It's tempting to try and find somewhere far far away and stop caring, Or just go to the movies, absorb the propaganda and never come out of the stupor again.