Spielberg's stealth attacks

Whilst I've been away writing a travel piece in Portugal, it seems that the rest of the planet fell under a brief, yet stealth like attack from Steven Spielberg.

First, the US film director (alien in human form) resigned as artistic consultant for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics, saying his conscience will not let him choreograph an event for a country that has done little to use its influence to ease the slaughter in Darfur. By agreeing to Olympic work and then kicking the Chinese despots in the shins and running away, Spielberg struck a victory blow for global human rights. He may also have saved us from an Opening Ceremony comprised of flying bicycles, hover board chases and casting decisions the likes of which have seen Tom Hanks get far too much work over the years.

What puzzles me however is why the Chinese wanted Spielberg's services in the first place when the country is so determined to separate sport from the politicalization of the Olympic Games. Did they not know that he directed Munich - the 2005 film that depicts the 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli Olympic athletes by Black September gunmen and the Israeli government's secret retaliation assassinations? Surely if anyone was going to politicize the Olympic Games, it would be Spielberg!

Secondly, by using what I can only presume is part of his arsenal of super human powers, Spielberg managed to get his film Terminal aired on television over the Christmas period. For all of us who watched it, little did we realize that we were subjecting ourselves to influences that, two months later would result in one of us actually living in Gatwick airport.

Ok, so it transpires that Anthony Delaney had been living at the airport for some time after losing his position as restaurant chef in Buckinghamshire. Apparently after ignoring airport authorities' orders to stay away he was given an asbo in 2006, banning him from the airport and its train station until 2011. But after Terminal was aired to the nation, Delaney was stopped by airport security 30 times and was found at south terminal on the same day that he was released from jail, where he spent 95 days for breaching the asbo. He has now been refused bail, presumedly so that Spielberg can't get to him. If alien strikes, like most things, occur in threes, where Spielberg will strike next is anyone's guess.