Posted on 03/24/2008 6:43:38 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
In 1936, The International Olympic Committee(IOC) put on one of the saddest propaganda displays in human history. They did this on behalf of a crazy despot who would go on to execute millions of people for not measuring up to the standards of an Aryan Superman master race. The 1936 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, served as a great coming out party for international fascism. It was a form of warfare before the first shots of WW II were ever fired.
With Leni Riefenstahl panning the camera, the propaganda film Olympia hit the screens in 1938 to spread the false message that Hitler’s Germany was the standard of excellence for the modern world.
The public relations fiasco aspect of this experience should have taught the IOC as much about the diplomatic importance the Olympics had taken on. But then again, Hitler learned nothing about his master race doctrine by watching Jesse Owens run laps around his Aryan Supermen either.
Thus, perhaps as evidence that history is truly cyclical, rather than progressive, the IOC has awarded the 2008 Summer Olympic to Beijing, China. Here we have a regime that cracks down on basic human rights, and succeeds a string of prior governments with a tradition of espousing doctrines of racial superiority that would make Nietsche raise a stein of Lowenbrau Keller’s finest wares.
Prior to ending their feudal monarchy in the early 20th Century, Chinese rulers described their land as The Middle Kingdom between heaven and earth. In fairness to the Chinese, this group of supermen was proceeded by the Pharos of Ancient Egypt in this jingoistic delusional thinking. Also, it is unknown as to whether they blatantly appropriated this symbol the same way Benito Mussolini copied the fasces off of the old Roman Monarchy which ruled in central Italy; centuries before the birth of Christ.
Under Mao Tse Tung, the doctrine of the Maoist Man proclaimed that Chinese men were superior to the rest of humanity, and could hence perfect Communism by evolving to the next level. Mao, himself, described the process. To him, the supreme Chinese Man would “neither seek fame or gain nor fear hardship or death, but toil body and soul for the people.” This delusion of grandeur led to Mao’s Great Leap Forward, and to the extermination of several million of these potential Chinese Supermen.
Of course China would rather control what aspects of their modern, post Mao Tse-tung version of communism the world actually sees. Recent events in Tibet have made that problematic. But then again, people around the world knew exactly what they were getting when they offered Beijing the honor of hosting the 2008 Summer Games.
Back when the 2008 Propaganda Olympiad was announced, newly-elected US President George W. Bush decided not to intervene one way or another. He sent spokesman Ari Fleischer with two basically contradictory messages. One the one hand, Fleischer intoned. "(The) president does not view this as a political matter." On the other, Fleischer said "This now is an opportunity for China to showcase itself as a modern nation,..”
John Derbyshire didn’t exactly buy into message number two. He authored an article for National Review in which he suggested demonstration sports that would better showcase the actual state of affairs in modern China. These events naturally were not the sort of thing Chinese politburo members will likely sign off on. Derbyshire’s Ideas included some of the following.
Tibetan Snow Shooting. In their bid for a future Winter Olympics, the Communists will demonstrate their skills at picking off Tibetan refugees attempting to cross snow-covered Himalayan passes into Nepal.
Organ Extraction. A test of speed and skill in wielding surgical instruments. A succession of convicted criminals, or members of obstreperous religious sects, are strapped to operating tables and their organs are removed without anesthetic, to be sold to intermediaries for transplant into wealthy foreigners. Points are awarded based on the total market value of the removed organs.
Toy Painting. In a test of manual speed and dexterity, competitors try to load as much lead-based paint as possible onto small children’s toys.
Currency Manipulating. In this financial-trading sport, competitors struggle to keep their currency undervalued and nonconvertible against pressures from foreign bankers and trading partners. The competitor who, beginning from a fixed stock of currency, amasses the largest amount of foreign reserves, gets the gold.
400-Fetus Relay. Teams of competitors administer forced abortions to women who have violated the one-child policy. A complicated scoring system awards points to each termination based on age and sex of fetus.
Aside from shaking my head and wondering what John Derbyshire really thought about the current Chinese regime, I also had to begin to wonder about the IOC. The IOC knows that The Dali Lama will not be performing his faith’s equivalent of The Pope’s Sunday Mass anytime soon in Tiananmen Square. They understand well that Taiwan won’t be sending the swim team this time out for fear that the PLA would put barracudas in the lanes containing Taiwanese athletes. None of this stuff has been successfully deleted yet from public record. The Orwellian memory hole isn’t working as well against the Internet as the PLA would like it to.
However, the IOC has signed off on the Chinese bid. The Poobahs of Beijing are hard at work on trying to figure out how to get the ozone counts in the summertime urban haze below asphyxiation levels. The fanfare featuring cute, cuddly panda bears will commence within mere months, and the networks world-wide will be bringing us breathtaking photography from atop The Great Wall.
Yet all of this will take place in a moral vacuum. China will play these media types for the idiots they are. Very little has changed in China’s perception of the West since emissaries from Queen Victoria were referred to the Chinese Empire’s Bureau of Barbarian Affairs. China will bask in the adulation of free propaganda. None will ask why there isn’t a free Tibet.
There is no reason to compete in Beijing, since showing up can only lend credence to the Chinese regime - not embarrass it the way Jesse Owens embarrassed Hitler.
Uh, the 1936 Summer Olympics were held in Berlin, not Munich.
Munich 1972, was supposed to erase the memories of hitler's 1936 Olympics, but unfortunately hitler's successors, the islamofascists, scarred the 1972 Olympics, with their massacre of Israeli athletes.
Worse. The communist government is already responsible for millions of deaths.
You’re right. And the Chinese pump their athletes full of steroids and then bully the IOC out of testing them, or releasing the results, so only the other countries lose their medals. No one wants to mess with Beijing.
Gosh. They call it The Forbidden Palace for a reason. Nice pictures.
Good point.
Admin Moderator, the first post might have been a bad mistake. I linked it before actually READING the name of the site. Now it's disappeared. Can you please delete post #7?
Bump to the best editorial written so far on the China/Tibet/Olympics subject. Not surprisingly the author is a FReeper.
I can only say prayers for the people of Tibet. I don’t know why we would even send our teams into China. Shaking my head again! & Damn China!
One difference being that in 1936 the President of the United States wasn't in the audience.
W going to Bejing would just be the latest sell-out.
What’s the point? Everyone knows mainland China is just biding its time until after the Olympics so it can make a grab for Taiwan.
Shades of Hitler into Poland on 9/1/39...
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