Made in China

Well folks, I've been sitting on the fence about a blog on that war in South Ossetia and the Beijing Olympics, and since people seem to care more about some schmuck from Germany getting a gold medal than about some poor kid bombed by MiGs, I decided on the latter.

I was watching a program recently, and it was about the effect of the Olympics on the Chinese population. I gotta tell you, from what I can see, it's just about the worst atrocity committed on the Chinese people since those commie SOBs took power. (At least, the worst one that gets reported to the West). People were forced from their homes so they could build sections of the Olympic stadiums and ceremonial sites and so on that were needed. Civilians were basically told "get out of here or go to prison," were tossed out on the street, and were incapable of complaining to anybody about it because, guess what? In China, you've got no rights! If you complain about losing your house so some guy from the other side of the planet can run for a hundred meters or so, you go to jail! Individuals don't own their homes, the state does, so they get booted out of them for the enjoyment of people everywhere from Canada to Australia (going east, that is).

China has essentially destroyed the Olympics, and here's how. Instead of having real fireworks (which you'd think they'd be well-stocked with since they invented the damn things), they make ones using a computer-those aren't fireworks you're watching, they're binary code made into colorful shapes. And for the kid who sang that stupid little song for the opening ceremony, they made her lip synch, because the kid who actually sang it wasn't cute enough for the part. In essence, the Beijing Olympics is just like everything else made in China: fake and useless.

Now, of the few people who are capable of a tiny amount of independent thought and actually realize what horrible acts are being committed by the Communists on the Chinese, only a few of them realize what should receive blame for what. Liberals in the West will find any imaginable way to desecrate the only working governmental system known-capitalism-and this case is no exception. Instead of getting angry at those repulsive Communist Chinese, they do their best to find reasons to be pissed-off at capitalists. For example, outrage is thrown at McDonald's for advertising the Olympics and using it to get money. But that's not right. All McDonald's is doing is getting profits-there's nothing wrong with that; they need those profits to keep their corporation going. What's wrong with keeping yourself well-fed? The answer is nothing: that's what capitalists do and that's how capitalist countries keep on working long after all other countries fall apart. Think about it, folks.