Bahrain in Cartoon

[cosworth151]

I can think of many other "Worst case scenarios." Most of them involve truck bombs. Did you watch the Al Jazeera video that John S posted? People dressed as F1 drivers holding guns on children. F1 didn't go there last year and the world didn't end.

[Ian]

According to the Aussie news programme that I'm watching it looks pretty certain to be cancelled.

[Jericoke]

I can think of many other "Worst case scenarios." Most of them involve truck bombs. Did you watch the Al Jazeera video that John S posted? People dressed as F1 drivers holding guns on children. F1 didn't go there last year and the world didn't end.

Is the problem that there is a totalitarian regime that Bernie is dealing with?

Or psychos that that the regime is trying to put down?

If we're worried about the psychos, it means that F1 can be pushed around, and others who oppose the sport might become more brazen.

If we're worried about the totalitarians, why would they attack a race they paid for?

[cosworth151]

The despot has already started the killing. I'm afraid of that snowballing. As I said, F1 didn't run there last year and the world didn't come to an end.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120320/eu-un-bahrain-protest-deaths/

[lkjohnson1950]

Worst case scenario, bomb similar to the one that went off yesterday in Bahrain, goes off in hotel, paddock or grandstand killing and injuring F1 fans or team members.

[vintly]

Best case scenario: GP passes off seemingly peacefully - no issues to speak of anywhere near the track or teams. But, in the background extreme measures have been taken to ensure this, such as protests being violently crushed, more deaths, and more protestors locked up without due cause. This is later reported via various networks and social media, making the 'peaceful' GP look like a sham, a collusion, and an attempted cover up to give a false impression of what's actually going on in Bahrain.

[Jericoke]

Worst case scenario, bomb similar to the one that went off yesterday in Bahrain, goes off in hotel, paddock or grandstand killing and injuring F1 fans or team members.

So... the problem is that Bernie is doing business with the GOOD guy?
(I suppose 'lesser of two evils' is a better phrase.)

And the problem is that the 'good guy' will brutally stop his citizens from killing people so we can watch F1?

[cosworth151]

Or will the despot arrange for the bomb himself to discredit the liberation movement?

[John S]

Or will the despot arrange for the bomb himself to discredit the liberation movement?

All depends whether the king takes advice from the CIA. 

[Dare]

Or will the despot arrange for the bomb himself to discredit the liberation movement?

All depends whether the king takes advice from the CIA. 

I think all gov's,not just the US or up to some pretty devious plans
to justify what they want.

We'll never know what goes on behind closed doors

[lkjohnson1950]

Yet another take:

http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article7640709.ece/ALTERNATES/w940/cartoon20120413.jpg

[Ian]

Not sure it's such a good idea to be there.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/17767985

[Jericoke]

Not sure it's such a good idea to be there.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/17767985

I hope someone is making a documentary of F1's participation in Bahrain this year.  It could do wonders for bringing world attention to what is going on.  I HOPE there's no big story for the doc, but it sounds like there is more than enough to put together 90 minutes of outrage.

[F1fanaticBD]

Some fancy stuff, I hope they could manage something that could inspect and stall the the mind of Bernie...