Seven years ago, the International Olympic Committee’s decision that designated China as the host of the 2008 Summer Games was met with both shock and astonishment across globe. How was it possible for the IOC to select an authoritarian nation with well documented human rights abuses, both domestically and abroad, as host of an event that encourages equality, international cooperation and peace? I believe it was China’s rapid economic and industrial growth and the prospect of China superseding the United States as a super power that affected the committee’s decision. In spite of China’s flaws, the nation has made significant progress by dumping its Maoist, communist roots for laissez faire capitalism on steroids, the wet dream of all western Free Marketeers.
For the United States to sling mud in the face of China over human rights abuses is extremely hypocritical. Have those blind Americans forgotten the various coups and ghost wars the United States government and its corporate partners in crime or the corportacracy, waged for its own self serving purposes? Does violent conflicts and the subversion of democracy in sovereign nations where scores were murdered in the name of selfish, elitist and racist agendas under the guise of “liberty” and “freedom” not count as human rights violations? Have they forgotten how we fucked up Iran, Iraq, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Chile, Brazil and Greece in our short history as a nation. Hell, poor Iraq can’t catch a break. They weren’t fucked, more like gang raped with Katana blades. Of course, the United States government comes up with some bullshit rationale for their criminality and greed. The whole tripe of we do it for freedom, liberty, truth, justice and the American way mantra. The shit’s getting old and transparent. We do it for money, global hegemony, power and fear. While I abhor the United States past and continued international crimes against the downtrodden and powerless, I am no fan of China’s authoritarian / steroid capitalism political-economic system. If I lived in China and made such statements against the government, the agents would kick down door before finishing this statement and whisk me away to a reeducation(torture) camp. I just see China as following in the footsteps of the West on the road to neoimperialism. For China to truly surpass the United States, it must release its strangle hold on personal liberties.
The United States must accept some culpability for China’s pollution crisis. China is simply exploiting our unwavering addiction to consuming cheap, poisonous shit. Without our need for a cheap China shit fixes, China’s pollution output would probably drop significantly.
Although the United States claims to have a free press, the behavior of the mainstream press and its relationship with the Bush Administration proves otherwise. While China’s press is state controlled, at least their press lets it be known that they are in fact state controlled. The so called American free, liberal media echoed the lies and propaganda of the Bush Administration for the current Iraq War. The American mainstream media is nothing more than a quasi Ministry of Truth who would rather entertain than inform.
The United Stats has no moral high ground to criticize the Chinese government on anything it seems. as it continue it's drive for global hegemony. The Chinese hope to beat the USA at its own game and adorn the crown as the next great superpower.
Rant over. Don't narc me out to DHS.
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