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China's War of Terror: 2008 Olympics
There is no weapon more powerful than ignorance. It is a self-
defeating power. Sure, you say, we have enough to worry about in the
U.S.: a recessive economy, a quagmire in the Middle East, an
incompetent school system, etc. We've successfully ignored Tibet's
crisis for decades, so why should it come up now? We've lived with the
inhumanity of the Chinese government for so long (the female
infanticide, the Tiananmen Square massacre, the quelled peasant
uprisings), and Tibet is of no political-economic significance to us,
so why politicize the Olympics? Because allowing brutal totalitarian
rule and inhumane atrocities to go uncondemned adds to the cloud of
fear that is seeping into the new international culture. Evil only
prevails when good men do nothing, and so we are contributing to evil
if we stand idly by.
Anyone who thinks that the Olympics Games has historically been an
oasis from political maneuvering is ignorant of the facts. Each
Olympics in history has had explicit political overtones. It has
always been a competition between countries to see who is the
strongest, richest, most influential. If an athlete wants nothing
more than world-class competition s/he can enroll him-/herself in one
of the many s****t tournaments that are held all over the world, but
the moment s/he steps on the world's stage and represents a government
it becomes unavoidably political.
Sometimes, however, much more serious issues are brought to the
world's attention through the Games. The USA strongly considered
boycotting the 1936 Olympic Games in Nazi-controlled Germany due to
the openly racist and militant propaganda ordered by Adolph Hitler
himself. The USA, Canada, China and several other countries boycotted
the 1980 Summer Olympics in protest of the USSR's military occupation
and treatment of Afghanistan. The Russians in turn boycotted the 1984
Summer Games and instead organized their own counter-Games. Eight
years ago Cathy Freeman was given permission to display the Aboriginal
flag as a political protest while running in the ceremonial torch
relay to protest their mistreatment.
Such "political" statements are not being tolerated this time around,
however. In Paris, London, San Francisco and other places, both local
police and elite Chinese guards have personally escorted each and
every runner in this year's torch relay, regularly changing routes
unannounced and beating back protesters that have attempted to
extinguish the torch and unfurl Tibetan flags in protest of China's
nearly 50-year history of oppression and human rights violations in
that country. It was painful to watch American cops literally throw
American torch runner Majora Carter into the gutter, interrupting her
run, grabbing away the torch and stealing the Tibetan flag she
unfurled. Though her action was identical to Cathy Freeman's she will
likely be barred from the games, as will others who dared speak
against the host of this year's Games. China and the other local
cooperating authorities defend their actions as efforts to keep the
Games free of political interferences.
But besides numerous examples of past political influences in the
Olympics, it was the International Olympic Committee themselves that
brought up China's destructive politics in the first place. Hesitant
to offer the Games to China, the IOC made them promise to clean up
their human rights record before they were formally announced as the
hosts of the 2008 Olympic Games. Now that China's actions have
actually gotten worse, the IOC says it isn't an issue, making their
obviously politically-motivated solidarity with China clear: They are
now declaring that civil disobedience in protest of China is "abusing
Democratic freedoms." What happened to the so-called Olympic spirit of
world freedom and unity?
Anyone who thinks that our nation's relation****p with China has been
open and friendly is likewise ignorant. China attacks our national
security and interests daily. They now have nuclear submarines that
play strategic war-games with our naval ****ps, subs that they built
with libraries of nuclear technology they stole from us. Due to their
unfriendly trade regulations, their currency continues to rise as ours
deflates. They frequently participate in e-espionage attacking
Pentagon computers. They of course condemn our foreign policies in
the Middle East, even though the new Iraq's first oil ****pment went
entirely to China. Politically, militarily, economically,
ideologically, China has actively threatened all democratic nations
for some time.
Now that China's traditional brutality has progressed to outright
genocide of the Tibetan people it's unthinkable anyone would sup****t
them. With the great threat to the free world that China represents,
why on earth are some American conservatives actually criticizing pro-
Tibetan protesters? Follow the money. NBC has invested billions in
the Olympics, as have other powerful media groups. In order to end
the decades-long ban on international media presence in Tibet (which
China did to mask what was really going on there), the Associated
Press had to publish dozens of Chinese-approved talking-points
(naturally excluding and criticizing any Tibetan perspective) before
China granted them exclusive access to re****t in Tibet. (As soon as
the pro-democracy civil-disobedience demonstrations recommenced,
however, China quickly ushered them out of the country again.) Coca-
Cola, also heavily invested in the Beijing games, had the audacity to
say, "It's unfortunate that Ms. Carter used an invitation to
participate in the torch relay as a platform to make a personal,
political statement." With such strong business opposition to "rocking
China's boat," along with fear of China's economic and military power,
it is no wonder that our government has remained neutral (if not pro-
Chinese) on the issue. You'll be hard pressed to find an op ed in any
major media or government organization that condemns China and calls
for a free Tibet. This is the scariest aspect of this silent war: our
cor****ations and leaders are already bought by the enemy.
It is only by overstepping the compromised major media channels
through certain independent and international media sources and actual
video footage of China's actions posted by individuals on sites like
YouTube that we can get an unadulterated look at just exactly what
China is doing. Despite the mainstream media's silence, expos=E9s that
the Tibet riots were an inside job are pervading the internet, with
convincing arguments that Chinese agents instigated the violence.
China's intolerance for free speech only accelerates this trend as the
Chinese people question their brainwa****ng government. It was Chinese
bloggers who first revealed to the world it was really a Chinese agent
dressed up as a Tibetan that attacked the disabled Chinese torch
carrier, a video clip that the Chinese media widely circulated as
proof of Tibetan terrorism.
China's state-run media's tales of Tibetan violence--"monks pouring
boiling lime on police," "monks forcing people to loot stores," "monks
burning piles of innocent people into skeletons", "monks trained in
guerrilla camps entering Tibet's south border to plan bomb attacks",
etc.--are an organized attempt to make the peaceful protesting monks
of Tibet sound like the desperate, inhumane terrorists of the Middle
East with which we have become so familiar. China wants us to see
Tibet as another Iraq and feel justified with their brutal strikes
against its citizens. For months I've detailed China's ridiculous
allegations, which are full of flip-flops, lies, logical fallacies,
and emotional propaganda. China is counting on the vast population
inside and out of the U.S. that believes that Bush "duped" us into
"the wrong war at the wrong time" to believe it hypocritical for us to
condemn China for simply stamping out domestic terrorism when we are
doing the same thing. No wonder Bush is reticent to act.
China knows that it doesn't really matter if our war is justified and
theirs is not. What matters is the appearance of how brutally we
crackdown on the terrorists, setting a precedence for others to do
so. China is attempting to quell the Tibetan independence uprising
while at the same time discrediting the United States' anti-terrorist
actions by kicking all journalists out of Tibet but their own so that
they can lie about the situation and then criticizing anyone who
re****ts whatever they don't like, calling their re****ts baseless. Then
they slaughter hundreds, maybe thousands of innocent monks and their
brainwashed people cheer on their war on "terrorism," while they slam
western media for cropping an image in a way they don't like.
The atrocities of Nazi Germany and Communist Russia were destructive
to humanity is so many ways. In addition to the millions of lives that
were lost in wars and executions, the fact that derivitive white
supremacy, ethnic cleansing and oppressive communist governments still
continue is proof that their totalitarian-communist philosophies
continue to haunt and hurt the world. Countries today like Iran and
North Vietnam that continue the legacy of Nazi Germany and Bolshevik
Russia have been referred to as the "axis of evil" for their current
(as well as threatened) oppressive actions. But they are nothing
compared to China. China's "People's" government was the true evil
empire from the very beginning when Mao killed over 20 million of his
own people and
offered 10 million of his women like cattle to Henry Kissinger so that
their babies would not be his problem. China's government continues to
oppress its billions by keeping all but its party members in poverty
and encouraging the slaughter of untold millions of unborn girls in
order to raise workers/soldiers. They are the greatest enemies of
democracy in the world by far, menacing over the freedom of Hong Kong,
murdering patriots in Tibet, harvesting organs from innocent Falon
Gong members, killing Vietnamese fisherman and threatening Taiwan. (We
can never know the true extent of their evil because so much has been
censored.) Their own news agency has stated their reasons for wanting
control of Tibet:
Tibet is of strategic im****t to China not only for its geographical
location astride the border with India, Wa****ngton's newest anti-China
ally in Asia. Tibet is also a treasure of minerals and also oil. Tibet
contains some of the world's largest uranium and borax deposits, one
half of the world's lithium, the largest copper deposits in Asia,
enormous iron deposits, and over 80,000 gold mines. Tibet has large
timber reserve. Tibet also contains some of the largest oil reserves
in the region.
On the Tibet Autonomous Region's border along the Xinjiang Uygur
Autonomous Region is also a vast oil and mineral region in the Qaidam
Basin, known as a "treasure basin." The Basin has 57 different types
of mineral resources with proven reserves including petroleum, natural
gas, coal, crude salt, potassium, magnesium, lead, zinc and gold.
These mineral resources have a potential economic value of 15 trillion
yuan or US$1.8 trillion. Proven reserves of potassium, lithium and
crude salt in the basin are the biggest in China. And situated as it
is, on the "roof of the world," Tibet is perhaps the world's most
valuable water source. Tibet is the source of seven of Asia's greatest
rivers which provide water for 2 billion people. He who controls
Tibet's water has a mighty powerful geopolitical lever over all Asia.
Source: Chinay Daily
Michael Moore said the American war on terrorism was really just a
campaign to instill fear into the American people in order to extend
more control over them. Whether or not that is true, clearly that's
the name of the game for China: fear all around. Their war with us is
a war <i>of</i> terror, and our leaders are terrified. China holds so
many of our interests, so much of our economy, and has their hands in
so many of our pockets. It seems that there is little individuals can
do in such a vast power-play. What will it take before you or I
boycott anything made in China? Would it even make a difference?
Just as when USSR oppressed Poland, East Germany and the rest of
Eastern Europe, it is our moral duty as the most powerful free nation
in the world to again stand as defenders of democracy. China's
genocide in Tibet and surrounding Muslim areas, and their war of words
against our western media is just the next step in their power-play.
In our age of progress to greater democracy and individual ethical
responsibilities a global dictator****p must not be tolerated. It's
clear that our government won't give us another Reagan any time soon
to tear down China's great walls. We have the "straight-lies express"
and the empty "hope and change" suit. But we the people of the United
States and of the world have what no one had in Reagan's day. And this
is the reason why Tibet isn't just another hushed-up Tianenman Square.
It's the digital age and our voices count. We the people have the
power to find out what is really going on and to organize powerful
protests to shake up the powers that be. Though our government may be
hesitant to take a stand now, they cannot remain inactive when the
majority of the people demand something to be done. Already a
coalition ranging from independent conservative Michael Savage to
liberal democrat Barack Obama is demanding that China stop their
oppression of Tibet. A republic is a government in which the leaders
act according to the will of the people. Though China's claim to be a
"People's Republic" is obviously false, ours is not. We have the power
to change things for the better.
China promised to clean up their human rights record in exchange for
hosting the games but it has only gotten worse. The sympathetic
government agencies' and International Olympic Committee's Gestapo
scare tactics against those who oppose them have made it clear that
the Games are nothing more than a coming out party for China's rise to
international power. Just like China's population has done for
decades, we are supposed to fall in line and cheer the ushering in of
the evil empire. However, I do not believe that the true Olympic
spirit lies in remaining neutral and letting China have its brutal way
with Tibet. The modern Olympic logo consists of five interlocking
colored rings, representing the freedom and unity all people of the
five continents, over a white field representing the world. The
Olympics represent peace and brotherhood, the ability to come as
equals and participate in healthy competition. I believe that the true
Olympic spirit lies in the few who risk their careers and even lives
to stand up for humanity. It lies with those monks who dare peacefully
protest for their God-given rights and get tortured and killed as a
result. It lies with all people around the world who show their
sup****t for Tibet and make it clear to their leaders that this must
not be tolerated. Once the United States stands up and protects the
pro-Tibetan cause, we will be able to regain our status as champions
human rights, putting human lives before dollars and yen, and Chinese
people will be able to start breaking loose of their oppressing,
brainwa****ng government. For ourselves and the world community, we
will finally be able to break free of the strong distrust and
criticism of our government's post-911 anti-terrorism wars and
activity. Terrorism in all of its forms must be opposed
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