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Take that you Commie Bastard or The politicizing and ruination of the Olympics
Let's get China for investing in Darfur for the betterment of the Chinese nation and the continuation of their political machine--let's fuck up the Olympics! Embarrass the little yellow twits. Raise a standard and stop supporting the Olympic Games--but let's let our athletes continue to compete. China has a vicious record of human rights violations.
All of this false bravado hoopla, this faux crisis, begins in the USA where it is terribly important to be self-righteous and divert attention from what's really going on within its own borders.
But. . .let's begin internationally? What has America done to calm the situation in Darfur? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Other than engaging in high rhetoric and sanctions that will only hurt the people who are being abused. So that means, because of noninvolvement, because of doing nothing when something could have been done and when the government was asked to do something, is not a human rights violation. Setting up business ventures to help a nation of 1.6 billion is a human rights violation. Interfering in sovereign nations' internal politics, subverting the established order, creating unstable conditions and variously invading said countries is not a human rights violation. But engaging in a policy of non-involvement in another country's politics is a human rights violation.
Whyever did Darfur suddenly figure in the Olympics? Right out of the blue. Darfur's been a non-item for some time, what with Britney's manic-depression and Sarkozy's PDA illegal immigrants. I have a friend here who believes that around July or August, George Bush's America will engage in nefarious activities to undermine the Olympics and destabilize the country. He's wrong: it's now the end of February and it's started.
Worse: the self-righteous crisis-making machine has suckered other nations, like the prostitute and drug crazed Dutch, to join in with them.
I wonder why Spielberg, so upset about China's inhuman rights policies doesn't engage in the same boycotting of, say, Hollywood for his own country's inhuman rights policies. For him not to implicitly gives the okay to Iraq, Afghanistan, the future Iran, denying medical treatment to veterans and Guantanamo--which means Spielberg likes torture and debasement. Ah! No wonder he's so good at horror flicks!
I'm sure there's no hypocrisy here. No, no, no.
And then there's the Chinese artist shouting like a frothing rabid dog that the Olympics is a sham, that it's all propaganda. Well, duh! Wei? Wei? (That's an in-joke for those who know Chinese. Weiwei is the man's given name; wei is also "hello" in Chinese.) Is it anything else, I ask you, in any other country? For instance, who benefited from the Atlanta Olympic Games? The LA Games? The Athens Games? Ai, Ai, Ai! (Another pun on the artist's name: his family name is Ai. So, I guess we could be British and call him, "Hello, Luv.") Of course it's all face! That's what it's all about: money for me, none for you. My, my, my prestige-uh! (Can we sing that please?)
Now, let's go home. Right into the good old US of A. USDA having to recall 143 million lbs of bad beef because its tainted? It's not a human rights violation to let disinspected meat circulate to the very possible demise of some of your citizens? Drug prices so high that people must do without and, inevitably, die is not a human rights violation--and making it unlawful to go elsewhere to buy cheaper brands? Racial profiling is not a human rights violation?
Taking all of your business outside the country and creating massive unemployment is not a human rights violation? Letting the poor die for lack of housing, food, clothing, etc. is not a human rights violation? Spousal abuse, rape--it's the woman's fault--is not a human rights violation?
The rich getting needed organ transplants over the poor because they have money and the poor don't is not a human rights violation? Use of internationally banned weapons, chemical weapons, by local police forces is not a human rights violation? Forcing unwanted children on people (women) and then watching them die of abuse, malnutrition, disease, neglect is not a human rights violation?
Dispossessing native peoples of their land, demonizing them, demoralizing them, liquidating them is not a human rights violation? Wheelchair dumping and disenfranchisement of the disabled, many of whom fought to protect your rights and freedoms, is not a human rights violation?
The death penalty is not a human rights violation? Privatizing public utilities and increasing the cost of services so some must go without is not a human rights violation? Taking away people's homes is not a human rights violation? Making the feeding of the homeless a crime is not a human rights violation? No health care and, even, turning people away because they can't afford to pay is not a human rights violation? The Ashley Treatment is not a human rights violation? Not allowing people to carry their medication onto a plane is not a human rights violation? (There are those who use nitroglycerin cream; it comes in a tube. Tubes are banned, especially toothpaste. And nitroglycerin blows up, right?) Doping children to control them is not a human rights violation? Refusing prisoners medical treatment is not a human rights violation?
As Laurie Anderson sang, "I could go on and on."
The Salem Witch Trials?
Mia, honey, whatever are you thinking? How much did the neocons pay you to get on this soap box?
So. . .here it is folks, America's favorite game: double standard.
Also, "if I can get you up in arms and concerned about something out there, you won't pay attention to what's going on in your own back yard." AKA wagging the dog: another favorite US game.
Has Cheney lost his touch? Why doesn't he just come over here to China and blow away Hu's face? He's done it to one old man, right out in public, why not another? Send Rumsfeld or Kissinger over here to--no, wait. Can't do that: they're wanted for human rights violations. . .just not in America. There are no human rights violations there. Pure and untainted. Ivory. 100% soap. Floats in water.
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What a great article, with so much venom.
The US people 'know' they truly are the greatest race there ever was, blessed by God.
There are two ways of doing things, the US way, and the wrong way.
Here in Australia we drive on the wrong side of the road, and also we have universal health cover, public hospitals, a pharmaceutical benefit scheme, a reasonable pension scheme and so on, boy how wrong can we Aussies be, it seems we can't get anything right.
I believe 'Work Choice' was borrowed from
from some US industrial relations scheme .
With the new less extreme Federal Labour Government of Australia, the Industrial Relations package, is dead mutton.
The IR legislation, was the thing that destroyed the conservatives, at the polling booth. We still have a choice it seems .
I told you Australia, just can't do things the right way, the US way.
We are so jealous of the US. Believe that, and you might as well believe there are faeries at the bottom of the garden.
Mike
It is a case of the pot calling the kettle blacck. In another thread I made the comment that the US has no right to take the moral high ground, it stands among the dark nations of the Earth.
Mike.
Nothing is more frustrating than the feeling that every time I fill up my tank, I\'m sending my money to people who I get the impression want me, my family and my friends dead. Don't you think it might be of interest to know which oil companies import Middle Eastern oil and which do not?
These companies import Middle Eastern oil:
Shell................................... 205,742,000 barrels
Chevron/Texaco................... 144,332,000 barrels
Exxon /Mobil....................... 130,082,000 barrels
Marathon/Speedway............ 117,740,000 barrels
Amoco................................ 62,231,000
barrels
And CITGO oil is imported from Venezuela by Dictator Hugo Chavez who hates America and openly avows our economic destruction! (We pay Chavez’s regime nearly $10 Billion per year in oil revenues!) I am sick to death of Hollywood, Mia Farrow calling out for those who can to put pressure on China to send troops into Darfur. Yet the other countries in Africa who are haveing as much or larger genocides going on. Who is funding the weaponry for these gorrillas in theses countries to create instability and terror. To me the selfishness of the babyboomers to turn a blind eye, the younger generations vulnerablity to believe in Obama false platitudes, and Washington arrogance. If Nader can make it they will assasinate him. He holds no party affiliation congress and the senate along with Bush and company could be held for war crimes. Unlike Ron Paul, Nader even now calls for impeachment. Ron Paul only favors an investigation. He is a man who will fight for the common working mans interests. He would drive a stake right thru the heart of the corrupt two party corperate sponsored system. A huge threat to american political monopoly. I am so tired of the fear tactics and seeing people fall for it. Bush continues to poor billions in promises for Abstinenece only HIV and malaria programs. How much can an abstinence only program cost. And as with so much of the arrogance of this administration there is little accountability. And as in Iraq when millions of weapons disappear, never to be accounted for. With genocide rampant in Chad, Uganda and other countries the NYT relentlessly keeps the focus on Darfur with oil for China and teh largest uranium deposits in Africa. Follow the money and who stands to benifit and who stands to gain. Thanks James for your thoughts on the U.S. and her arrogant B.S., really shows how corrupt this stuff has worked into our U.S. society.
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