WHY THE 2028 OLYMPICS SHOULD NOT BE IN LA

This show must not go on.

- Joe Mathews

It's time, right now, for Los Angeles to halt all preparations to host the 2028 Summer Olympics — and find a different world city to take them over.

Not because we don't love the Olympics. We are a proud Olympic city, shaped by the 1932 and 1984 Games.

In normal times, our incomparable international connections, entertainment assets, and sports facilities would make us the perfect host for what LA 28 chair Casey Wasserman calls "the largest peacetime gathering in the history of the world."

But it's no longer peacetime in Los Angeles. Hosting an Olympic Games requires us to work together with a lawless US regime — and its rights-violating security apparatus — as they openly wage war against our city and state.

"National Special Security Events," like the Olympics, require host cities' to let federal agencies take the lead during the Games.

For the 2028 Olympics, an agreement, which took effect last year, puts the US Secret Service in charge of security, with support from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.

All those agencies work for Donald Trump, who has launched a war against California that includes deploying troops and secret federal police in our neighbourhoods.