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The rape of the Olympic spirit : Comments

By Arthur Thomas, published 8/8/2008

The IOC has deliberately desecrated the Olympic spirit and has shown a lack of intestinal fortitude in enforcing conditions formally agreed to with China.

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Then naivetivity in some of the assumptions in this article aretunning. Reality dictates that:
1. That the “Olympic Games” (OG) has or can have any impact other than temporary feel good. Show me any peace treaty, lifting of trade embargo as a result of any Olympic Games.
2. That the OG is politically anything more that a national ego trip.
3. Internally it is a means of encouraging nationalism.
4. That it’s even fair (on a level playing field). Rich countries spend millions to scientifically equip, train athletes but the poorer ones can’t.
5. That the tank is anything more than an admission that the games is permeated with ‘drug’ cheats and is designed to ‘maybe’ catch them in the next 8 years.
6. That the OG is therefore anything more than a sporting spectacular from which photogenic stars, Sponsors, media make lots of money.
7. That the even this is based popular saleability.

Point 3 is of particular note here in that China is and always has seen the regime as being synonymous with nationalism. Like all long-term power structures their primary intention is to cement their longevity and power.
Therefore all “promises” of “openness” must be viewed for this perspective.

I have no doubt that it was always the CCP’s intention to use this event as cover for authoritarian actions.

The IOC is no more than an international corporation who reason d’etre is to put on a spectacular for the financial benefits of their members. Hence the changing host rationale. Like all corporations decisions are made on the basis of financial expedience.

For those reasons I can’t wait until they're over and relative sanity (proper diplomacy) return. Then all the issues raised can be really addressed.

Meanwhile the countries involved are distracted by the 21st century equivelent of 'Bread and Circuses'
Posted by examinator, Friday, 8 August 2008 10:59:09 AM
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I am assuming the title of this article somehow borrows from 'The Rape of Nanking.' Not even going into the utter vitriol splashed throughout the article itself, I feel that to invoke the rape of nanking in your title on the eve of the olympics in the country where such an atrocity was committed demonstrates COMPLETE poor taste and a callous lack of judgement.
Posted by effleurer, Friday, 8 August 2008 11:17:27 AM
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The Games of Shame indeed.
This piece is a timely reminder for anyone attending, participating in or even just watching this spectacle of grotesque dishonesty and callousness.
The Olympic spirit has suffered a blow of a magnitude, which by all accounts would be lethal to any other organisation, but for the magnanimity of the just people at large, who will forgive and forget, the Olympic Movement will live on, just.

http://one-just-world.blogspot.com/2008/08/will-olympic-spirit-survive.html

http://one-just-world.blogspot.com/2008/08/fervent-chinese-nationalism-or-just.html

http://one-just-world.blogspot.com/2008/07/in-spirit-of-olympics-indeed.html
Posted by cardano, Friday, 8 August 2008 11:45:54 AM
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Isn’t it interesting that the Rape of Nanjing is such a source of indignation for Han Chinese citizens.
After all the CCP, since its inception, has made this abhorrent atrocity look like amateurish child’s play.
The same kind of hideous barbarity has been perpetrated by this cabal at a scale of a magnitude thousands of times larger, and we are still counting today!
Perhaps some 50 to 100 million have perished under the rule of this cabal of Han Chinese tyrants, the same regime now honoured to stage the Racist Games of Deception and Dishonesty.
Get a taste of this regime in the year of the 2008 Games here:

http://one-just-world.blogspot.com/2008/08/will-olympic-spirit-survive.html
Posted by cardano, Friday, 8 August 2008 12:00:55 PM
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"Hopefully, London will hold the promise of a return to the true Olympic Spirit."

Yes more stabbings, gay-rights, right-to-rob, right-to-rape, right-to-expliot the non-whites, right to invade countries without just cause. The white hypocrite countries have yet to summon the three white-Anglo war criminal criminals Bush, Blair and Howard for crimes against humanity.

Its time for the non-white countries, including Russia, Serbia and like minded ones to set up a criminal justice system to bring to justice many of the crimes committed by large corporations, persons and organisations in the West.

The amount of intellectual piracy, biopiracy committed by Western organisations is enough to feed the starving in Africa.
Posted by Philip Tang, Friday, 8 August 2008 11:39:06 PM
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In the China Olympic games, the Communist regine from Chine with the large multinational corporations from west celebrate their victory on chinese and western people. You will find there the political leaders from west countries too, as they try to promote the 'Bread and Circuses' philosophy.
When China was closed to multinational corporations, it was a communist country, a non democratic country which violated human rights, democracy, workers rights, etc. from the moment China opened its doors to western corporations all forget the democracy, human rights and stoped to interested for chinese people's rights!.
Few days before I signed a petition from Amnesty International, USA branch, to President Bush to press Chinese leaders to respect the human Rights.
Is not it strange that the Chinese Communist government opened the Websites from corporations to chinese people BUT BLOCKED THE WEB SITE FROM AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL? They found they way to cooperate with western Capitalists, BUT their big problem are the Chinese people and the western human rights activisties.
Chinese Communist regime and Western big corporations are both against the democracy and human rights as they block them to miximize their benefits.
Chinese prisons are full of human rights activisties while in non comunistic countries big corporations are extremely wild and dangerous when the labor and union movement is not enough strong to control them.
Let's sent a clear message to chinese people and human rights activisties that we stand by them and we do not forget their sufering from the Communist regime and west corporations!
Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide
Posted by ASymeonakis, Saturday, 9 August 2008 12:45:45 AM
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