Honestly, i think this entire Olypmics is a farce...Just the fact that China is allowed to host the games, while a country like Cuba is vilified, and a country like North Korea is under constant threat of war..
I'm too tired to go too far into this right now...But, if anyone can give me a decent explanation as to how Cuba, N. Korea, and i'll even go so far as Iraq, how are these three countries worse than China exactly?
Go through Bush's reasonings for invading Iraq sometime....See if you can find a single event, outside of the disappearing WMD's, that China hasn't topped them in, as far as human rights violations, genocide, torture....Hell China even has nukes....Thousands of nukes actually...The only thing Iraq was 'caught' doing, that China hasn't been, was using chemical weapons....But, China has never been shy about widespread mass executions of it's own people, in fact, they seemed somewhat proud of it throughout the 70's and 80's....I'd go so far as to guess China has murdered maybe twice as many 'innocent' civilians as Iraq ever had.
What about Cuba? Hell, i would be arrested, if i vacationed in Cuba, and decided to spend a few hundred bucks on gifts while i was there....How exactly is Cuba worse than China???
What about North Korea for the next games? Sure, the leader is nutty, but, they actually have a better track record than China, at least in the history of Helsinki Watch/Human Rights Watch...I'm pretty sure even Amnesty International would say China has a worse human rights history than China.
I'm not even bothered so much by the fact China got them actually...Just as how hypocritcal the world (the US) is when it comes to deciding what countries are 'good' or 'bad'......And, i wanna go to Cuba without having to worry about my bags being searched in Miami, to see if i bought a fuckin bracelet for my neice, which is a serious crime, of course...Because that would mean i was feeding the evil cuban political machine with american dollars.
That, and the fact that we invaded Iraq for doing pretty much the same exact shit China has been doing openly for decades....Yet, Iraq is evil, China is 'most favored nation' in trade, and gets the Olympics.
Ah fuck all that too actually...The thing that i hate most is pro athletes in the games...and the endless commercialism. The Olympics have been ruined and it's just not interesting to me anymore.  |