Cup of Gathering...

There is a very important but also a very misdirected debate going on in Sweden, where our Ombudsman of Equal Opportunities (I don’t like that Swedish word in English) is perhaps one of the strongest voices. He want the, along with several other organizations, Swedish national team to boycott the single greatest sport event in the world, just because the German law is very welcoming for prostitutes in general. They claim and fear that hordes of east European prostitutes will sell sex to the immoral western men that are there to watch football. They are afraid that many women will get horribly hurt in the slavery and trafficking that will follow this huge global event.

I am too worried about it even though I don't agree to the actual severity of the problem during the World Cup. I'm worried about it because it's a accelerating problem, world wide. It's a growing child of the global situation. Stupid Germanic laws do not help, nor does the World Cup. Their aim is, however, very much off when they target the World Cup. The World Cup is, like any other sport event, about peace and friendship. It will become a topic of conversation for every man, woman and child around the world for a whole month. I will easily be able to start a conversation with almost anyone, from any country during that month. This is much harder during any of the other 47 months the Cup isn't played.

We should instead boycott German products, like we did when France decided to nuke that poor atoll in the Pacific. But I don't think the Swedish government is very keen to that idea since Germany is one of the most vital countries of trade for Sweden. So, it would probably be a political suicide for the Ombudsman for Equal Opportunities (damn I really hate the sound of that word in English) to suggest something like that.

(In fantasy fiction, items can often be enchanted and can thereby have silly names like the sword of Storms and such; Hence the title.)

Me? I'm putting on the Robe of getting a Job.