Aiding and Abetting

With the controversy building over just how old China’s female gymnasts are, the larger question has become how far the Chinese government will go to continue to be a nation based on propaganda, deception and plain old lies. They spent a large fortune building the venues, evicting anyone that stood in their way. While some of the structures are impressive, they don’t compensate in any way for the people displaced by their construction.

A hall built on the backs of working people loses its luster quickly.

People there still get rounded up, never to be heard from again. Some are sent to labor camps while others are just declared enemies of the state and executed.

Call it “cleaning house”.

Allowing the Chinese government to dictate what is said and how it is said in what context amounts to aiding and abetting the enemy. While it’s a nice thought that China is no longer the enemy, it’s only that: a nice thought.

And a naïve one at that.

In China, one can be executed for financial crimes. Taking bribes can put you on the wrong end of a pistol poked into the back of your neck.

Apparently, no one has ventured out into the wider Chinese world to see what it’s really like. At least no one with a camera and news crew.

The country continues to be the single largest violator of human rights on the planet. They have more humans, so they have more rights to violate.

That they would cheat in the Olympics should come as a shock to no one. That’s the least in their long list of crimes against humanity.

From the excesses of Mao and his wife to putting two 70 year old women in jail for filing for a permit to protest in a designated area this time around, they take the cake. A cake of bitter herbs with a sugar frosting.

While I’m intrigued by the coverage and the highlights of everyday life in China, I wouldn’t want to go there, much less live there. The media are playing into the party line of a “happy-happy” state. It reminds of the “money-blessing spray” I saw the last time I was in an oriental market.

It’s all one big sham, and until someone calls them on it, they’ll keep on doing the same old thing: imprisoning dissenters and executing people that embarrass the state.

That’s the Chinese tradition that has been ignored.

Not exposing it amounts to aiding and abetting the enemy. It amounts to a willful act of deliberate ignorance by every party that could tell the truth.

Instead, they spend their time in venues hand-picked by the government.

When everyone left to cover the Olympics, they must have left their balls behind. Maybe they got confiscated or are somewhere in lost luggage, but they sure ain’t where they need to be.

For the greatest propaganda event in its history, China seems to have no critics.

It’s aiding and abetting, pure and simple.