"War Criminal G.W. Bush Will Be Seated Next To Mugabe At Chink-O-
Lympics"
Yes, the U.S.'s gutless and craven Nincompoop-In-Chief, whose
decisions have caused the death of more than a MILLION HUMAN BEINGS in
Iraq, says he'll be pleased to be seated next to other famous world-
class criminals like Raul Castro and Mugabe at the upcoming Games.
Said the WHITE HOUSE WAR CRIMINAL when asked by re****ters why he would
place himself beside others guilty of CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, "Ah'm
goin' tuh suh****t ahwah athaletes! And anyway, Ah like no-nonsense
guys like Mugabe. He knows how tuh run a country -- like ah do!"
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"Olympic Countdown"
"China's preparation for the Games can be measured in arrests, denied
visas and cracked heads."
The Wa****ngton Post
Friday, July 18, 2008; A16
WITH THREE weeks remaining until the opening of the Olympic Games,
China's Communist leader****p is relentlessly pursuing a strategy
doomed to failure. Through censor****p, visa restrictions, intimidation
and brute repression, China's leader****p is trying to prevent any
public expression by Chinese citizens or foreign visitors that
conflicts with the image it wishes to project to the world -- that of
a "harmonious" society. In pursuit of this goal, China is blatantly
violating the promises it made when it was awarded the Games,
including that it would allow unrestricted media coverage. And it is
setting itself up for a political and public relations disaster when
-- as seems inevitable -- a dissident message evades its censors and
security thugs.
To fulfill its pledge to the International Olympic Committee, the
government of Hu Jintao lifted some restrictions on foreign
journalists in January last year. Last week, under pressure from the
IOC, it agreed to allow live satellite uplinks from Beijing. But as
the Games approach, intimidation of both the international and
domestic media has intensified. Many visas for journalists seeking to
travel to China before the Games have been withheld; correspondents
based in China have been warned that negative coverage may cause their
news organizations to lose accreditation for the Olympics. According
to Human Rights Watch, 10 foreign correspondents, including
representatives of the Associated Press, USA Today and the Wall Street
Journal, have received death threats because of their re****ting on the
recent violence in Tibet. Travel to Tibet remains severely restricted.
Chinese who question the official Olympic narrative have been treated
far more harshly. Two prominent critics, Hu Jia and Yang Chunlin, were
sentenced to prison this year after they tried to link the Beijing
Olympics with China's human rights record. Dozens of other writers and
dissidents have been jailed, placed under de facto house arrest or
ordered to leave Beijing before Aug. 8, when the Games begin. When
Republican Reps. Frank R. Wolf (Va.) and Christopher H. Smith (N.J.)
traveled there this month with a list of 734 political prisoners,
civil rights lawyers with whom they tried to meet were detained or
prevented from leaving their homes.
Beijing has heavily pressured the IOC and many Western governments to
prevent athletes from criticizing China or its foreign policies during
the Games. But the regime itself has not sworn off political
statements. When the Olympic torch passed through the Tibetan capital
of Lhasa last month, the local Communist Party leader delivered a
speech excoriating the Dalai Lama and proclaiming that "China's red
flag . . . will forever flutter" above Tibet.
Too many foreign leaders, including President Bush, have chosen to
tolerate this behavior without protest. Mr. Bush has confirmed that he
will join Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and Cuba's Ra=FAl Castro in attending
the Opening Ceremonies because he wishes "to cheer on our athletes"
and because to do otherwise "would be an affront to the Chinese
people." In fact, Mr. Bush is affronting those Chinese who have
bravely tried to resist the regime's steamrolling of all dissent. And
what if an intrepid protester manages to raise his or her voice for
Tibet or religious freedom or an end to China's sponsor****p of
genocide in Darfur and is swarmed by the regime's thugs? What if
Western media seeking to cover such an event are censored? We can only
hope that in that event, Mr. Bush will stop cheering.
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