World Cup workers dying in their hundreds

[Pritt Stick 10]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/18/qatar-world-cup-india-migrant-worker-deaths

 

Foreign workers building in Qatar for this year's World Cup are dying in droves. Many being forced to work in awful conditions.

 

Will any of us boycott the football because of this? To my shame I don't think I will but I feel terrible about this.

 

Will anybody out there take a stand and try and do something? Should FIFA and our FA do / say something about this? Any thoughts?

[999tigger 10]

No

 

Only if Fifa are embarassed enough. Fifa are one of the problems in the first place. Silly place to hold it.

 

I am not sure whether the death rate is higher on the world cup project as other construction projects in Qatar.

[Epic Fail 10]

Forced how?

 

But no, I will still watch. I love the World Cup, and my watching or not watching won't have any impact on anything other than to ruin my own entertainment.

[Pritt Stick 10]

I'm not knocking you, Epic, 'cos I'll be watching it too. They're 'forced' because their passports have been removed from them and they're indentured labourers.

[shanes teeth 10]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/18/qatar-world-cup-india-migrant-worker-deaths

 

Foreign workers building in Qatar for this year's World Cup are dying in droves. Many being forced to work in awful conditions.

 

Will any of us boycott the football because of this? To my shame I don't think I will but I feel terrible about this.

 

Will anybody out there take a stand and try and do something? Should FIFA and our FA do / say something about this? Any thoughts?

 

This years world cup is in Brazil isn't it?

[Pritt Stick 10]

This years world cup is in Brazil isn't it?

 

Oops. My mistake. In 2018. Is that right?

[shanes teeth 10]

2022 I think!

[Epic Fail 10]

Oops. My mistake. In 2018. Is that right?

 

2022 I think.

[Happ Hazzard 10]

I will not be watching, if it does in fact take place. I still think it will end up being somewhere else, probably in the USA.

[erebus 10]

The west does not value foreigners, especially when dealing with an energy rich state, as they are protected from adverse media interests, by a corporate umbrella of silence.

 

Slavery, death abuse, robbery, torture is acceptable in client states, states that buy weapons, I mean defense equipment from their overlord, at suitably inflated, but mutually agreed prices. Extraction of homage through cash allows may privileges, but there is a fie line as Saddam ad Libya proved, as the overlord can turn against friends if they get a bit uppity, like having ideas of their own.

 

But even if the death toll is over a thousand, and the casualty rate much more, who cares they are poor people, and like poor people in the UK, should expect abuse, because they are of insect status, and insects have no real value.

 

Exploitation is fine if one is part of the club, as the members support one another, in the money merry-go-round, run by the overlord. So why bother, enjoy the football, that what its all about, where the players are equally like the workers, pawns in a game, but pawns with added value.

[Pritt Stick 10]

Erebus - I'm reading that wearing an imaginary cape twirling an imaginary moustache.

[SevenRivers 10]

Slave labour, common in the Middle East.