Posted by
Michael Babbitt on Saturday, August 09, 2008 2:21:35 AM
I watched the televised opening for awhile and was impressed by many of the performances and technostunts of the Chinese. But I just couldn't stomach it for very long. To remember what a totalitarian society it is and see all of the blabbering by NBC, Coca Cola, and the Chinese about Harmony and bringing us all together while the Chinese supply weapons to the Sudanese with which to advance their genocide -- or to realize how the Chinese have decimated Tibetan culture; or how they constantly threaten the Taiwanese; or how they just revoked Joey Cheek's travel visa because he dared to speak up about Darfur -- it all seems just a sick joke. Yeah, everyone is smiling and celebrating this fascist state's ability to put on a good show with all of the popular-speak about international goodwill. What a load of BS. If anyone had any integrity they would just speak the truth about the horrors the Chinese commit daily in the world in their self-promotion. Now that would be speaking Truth to Power.