Posted on 08/19/2008 9:30:28 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Do you like your silly little Olympic games? Well, I hope you are really, really enjoying it because your support, your watching of this garbage makes you a direct, unequivocal party to the torture, imprisonment and oppression of the Chinese people. So, you, Mr. Olympics watcher, get a gold medal in torture. Congratulations. Feel proud.
It's so easy to just shut your eyes and pretend that you are innocent, of course. After all, you didn't send thousands of storm troopers through the streets of Beijing to round up homeless people, prostitutes, the elderly, or unwanted races like black immigrants from Africa and have them sent to interment camps a mere 30 miles from where the games are being held, right? Why you just bought a ticket to attend, or merely turned on your TV to watch the games. You can console yourself that you had nothing to do with these torture camps being filled up with less than telegenic Chinese people that wouldn't look good on TV. You just want to see some guy swim, some girls play volleyball or some people running.
You're innocent, right?
Wrong. You are directly responsible for thousands of people being beaten, displaced, tied to a bench for days on end, forced to go without clothing as punishment, and told that "re-education through labor" is the ideal... just like the Nazis used to tell their victims that "work makes you free."
Yes, be very proud of yourself....
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Point or not it’s just good to know that Warner Todd Huston is so much better than me.
This reminds me of an analogy that I could not possibly post on the Freep in a hundred years.
I didn’t want the IOC to give the Olympics to China, but I cant do anything about that. I will still support our athletes that are over there though by watching and rooting for them.
life sucks sometimes.
you're perfect. thanks for sharing.
As well they should be. The comparison is completely appropriate.
No,we are not directly responsible, any more than as a white man from then north I am directly responsible for southern slavery starting 400 years ago or for 9-11 because I bought gas for my car. You could say the same thing about buying half the crap we buy that is made in China.
Bite me.
Cougar, what you said.
With God as my witness, I have not watched one second of these Olympics. I detest Russia, China and communism in general.
Right?
I will watch our U.S.A. athletes & cheer them on, not thier fault either! STFU!
I sure get tired of getting hit with “moral equivalency” when all I’m doing is cheering on MY TEAM.
Or shopping at Walmart?
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Well Duh.
What are you smoking?
Spot on analysis. But get ready to be flamed. Most folks don’t like having such unpleasant realities thrust on them.
Hey WTH. China is bad? Who knew?
Stay pure. Save the world. Kill yourself.
See, I would say that is far worse than watching the games. And we are so in bed with the Chinese that it’s almost impossible to not buy things that are made there. I dont think I’ve seen a pair of shoes not made in China in 10 years.
I turn on NBC to watch Michael Phelps win the gold, and suddenly I am a "traitor to liberty and freedom. So is every last western athlete, every last western leader, and every single western attendee as well as all the media are guilty. And so is every TV watcher, newspaper reader, and radio listener who bothers with these murderous games [...] (Our) hands are stained with blood."
That's exactly what this piece says.
You agree with this?
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