Records are being set every day by steroid pill popping swimmers. Go ahead. Puff yourself up and feel proud. The pool is better than athletes had fifty years ago, the water treated chemically better, the swim suit designed better, the steroids are better, genetically engineered food is better.
You’re twice as big because of the steroids.
But you set a new record. Oh boy. Strut around. You’re better!
Meanwhile, the Chinese, a fascist dictatorship that is sort of also capitalist, puts on a showcase glorifying their country. Much like the 1936 Nazi Games in Berlin, the regime in Peking (I refuse to call it Beijing), has hidden away its torture victims and slaves being held without trial.
We love the Chinese. We equip them and trade with them and supply them. Bush, who yesterday warned the Russians not to attack US supplied Georgia (Gee, the US is the only country allowed to attack anyone), goes to China for a photo op and to act the big guy. This is the only thing he’s managed to do successfully, visit China. He’s only got six months left of the most disastrous presidential administration since Warren G. Harding.
Why does Bush love the Chinese?
They torture helpless people in jails.
They conquered and enslaved Tibet.
They massacred thousands during the Tiananmen Square riots.
They cut up executed prisoners and sell the body parts over the Internet.
It’s because they’re acting more like us (US). They have a McDonald’s in Peking. They don’t act crazy like Mao used to with those little red (Communist) books and Mao jackets and riding bicycles everywhere.
Now they drive cars. We can understand that.
They’re just like us. Or maybe, it’s that we’ve become more like them.
We hold prisoners without trial.
We set up camps to hold them.
We attack other countries without warning because we’re in the right. I’ve got both a McDonald’s and a Chinese restaurant in my neighborhood.
Like the 1936 Olympic Games, when the Germans won the most Gold Medals, the Chinese are winning them left and right.
Now, am I naïve, or should I assume that a country that has continually demonstrated a total ruthless disregard for human rights might have an overwhelming urge to cheat to win to make their country look good?
The screams of their victims have been muffled until the Games are over.
We should limit the Games to only those countries who are honest, Switzerland and Nepal.
We won’t attack the Chinese anyway because we’re afraid of them. We only attack small impoverished countries that don’t have an air force or a navy. And like the Olympic athlete whose victory was made possible by super vitamins, we strut around after we beat the small impoverished country, proud of ourselves as being real tough.
We also depend on their (China’s) tortured prisoners to make our blue jeans. The slave Chinese prisoner makes the jean and is paid nothing and fed a bowl of maggot-infested gruel. The jean is then shipped over here and you buy it at Wal Mart for $99.95.
Sound fair?
All’s fair in geopolitics and the Olympic Games.
The Games should be disbanded because of terminal hypocrisy.
» left by Bernd Lehmann from Dewey, Arizona (113 days 19 hours ago.)
Hi John, I am going to rant and not in any particular order, just my train of thought. You have touched on many points. There is a lot of truth in your article. What web sites sell body parts? We are all deluded that we are civilized, we easily become monsters. A lot of 'being civilized' is just on the surface. I often feel like I was born on the wrong planet. How can people do the things they do to other people. The crazy thing is years later there is the possibility that we will be best buddies. Just like children who fight and don't like each other in the school yard are often best buddies months later. Some of the Chinese female athletes do look younger than 16. As the TV commentator stated regarding the age factor, they have passports that say they are 16. We must never forget the transgressions we committed in the past with slavery and Native Americans. Experimenting on unsuspecting soldiers during the cold war years. And I'm sure much more. Supposedly we are more 'enlightened' now, so that transgressions done further back in time are not looked at in the same light. All in all it is a good thing that I don't have the magic button to eliminate all the human life on this planet. I may have pressed it already. I find 20% of people awake and the rest I have no use for. I see technology advancing much faster than compassion. And what about the little girl who did the lip sync because she was more cute than the girl who actually did the singing in the opening ceremony.
Oh boy, the sale of body parts in China is a booming industry to rival that of the oil business. I refer you to an article by British paper, The Guardian, dated September 13, 2005. A Chinese company (unnamed for legal reasons) is developing beauty cosmetics from the skin of executed prisoners.
The article doesn't list a domain name or the company name, but c'mon, you can buy this stuff over the internet or by mail catalog sure as hell.
Of course, they don't tell you what you're putting on your skin really is.
That lip balm you're using used to be a guy named Whang. You can hear his screams for help when you apply your makeup.
The Chinese have denied they do this, but also added that nevertheless, it's no big deal. This is to be expected from freaky people who view common morality and basic decency as alien concepts.
Dear Bernd - Until you told me, I hadn't heard about the little girl lip faking the song at the opening ceremony because the real girl singing wasn't cute enough (in their opinion). That's hysterical. How would you like to work for people like this? It shows the absurd, pathologic lengths the organizers will go to to cheat.
I haven't watched any of this travesty. I boycott it.
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