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July
14, 2001
By
Jon Christian Ryter Copyright 2000 - All Rights Reserved
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In a strange reversal of “human rights” roles in which the “personal liberty”-oriented GOP has chosen, once again, to ignore the tragically gross human rights violations of the People’s Republic of China as the Grand Ol’ Party championed Beijing’s winning the 2008 Olympics. At the same time, the liberal left, which excused Bill Clinton’s excesses as he kissed the red behinds of China’s leaders with eyes closed so tightly that he could not see the now-faded blotches of forgotten rivets of red that formed the vast pools of blood of those Chinese citizens who came to Tianamen Square in 1989 to peacefully protest for improved human rights, are now angrily protesting that a nation which has such a grievous human rights record should be bestowed with such a token of peace.
The International Olympic Committee, meeting in Moscow (another symbol of peaceful coexistence with the western world) awarded the 2008 Summer Games to Beijing on Friday, July 13, 2001, sending a message, the Associated Press claimed, to the rest of the world that “...the Olympics should be about opening doors, not closing them.” Tell that to the Chinese protesters who perished in Tiananamen Square in 1989 because they thought that democracy should be about “opening doors and not closing them.”
The Bush Administration, still throbbing from the thrashing it took at the hands of Chinese President Jiang Zemin during the force-down and stripping of the U.S. Navy’s EP-3E Aries II reconnaissance plane, and holding the crew hostage, at the end of March (shortly after Chinese diplomats visited George H. W. Bush in Kennebunkport, Maine to ask him to “keep his boy in line”), has taken the official position of not having an official position. In addition, nobody on either side of the aisle has mentioned the fact that Gao Zhan the scholar from Washington, D.C. who, along with her American husband and son was arrested by the PLA in February, is still being detained by the Chinese government. GAO has been accused of spying for one or more US intelligence agencies.
With the People’s Republic of China still holding our EP-3E reconnaissance plane, still holding GAO Zhan as a political prisoner; and with the PRC building nuclear submarine bases in Panama and Cuba, with the PRC building new missile bases along China’s coast across from Taiwan, with the PRC holding joint mock nuclear military maneuvers with the former Soviet Union in which US military and NATO forces are attacked in a Pearl Harbor-type military initiative; and with China’s leadership making it very clear that they are using commerce with the United States and the industrialized nations solely for the purpose of funding their military upgrading and expansion, the American people have to ask themselves—and their elected officials—why was the “official American position” one of apathy?
George W. Bush, who started his presidency with a “Ronald Reagan bang” that could easily have made him the most popular president in both the 20th and 21st centuries wilted under fire from the PRC. Did he wilt because “daddy” got on him about his “China position?” Somehow, I don’t think so. Did he wilt because the Democrats he had hoped to bring into his George Washington-style coalition government lashed out at him for taking such a hard-line position so early in his administration? While more plausible than the first reason, somehow I don’t believe that, either.
The Official Olympic Position
With several national and international human rights groups—and Democratic lawmakers—lambasting the International Olympic Committee’s decision to award the 2008 Summer Games to Beijing, defenders of the Olympic games declared that the decision merely upheld a long-standing Olympian tradition of separating politics and sports. The IOC itself claimed that by putting aside human rights concerns in making its “historic” decision, it hoped that it would “...[help] foster further change in the world’s most populous country.”
“Possibly
today,” IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch said after
declaring Beijing the winner of the 2008 event, “this opens a new
era for China.” When Count Henri Baillet-Latour of Belgium
awarded the 1936 Olympic games to Germany on May 31, 1931 over the protests
of
both France and Great Britain, he declared that the decision was made
to signal Germany’s return to the ‘world community’ after
its defeat in World War I.
Hitler,
of course did not come to power until he was named Chancellor in 1933.
One of his first acts was to create the Hitler Youth [pictured
on left]. Hitler knew the secret to avoiding revolution in the
future was to grab control of the minds of the youth. On August 29, 1933
the Nazis organized a “purity rally” in which several thousand
Aryan youth showed their support for the purification of the race. At
that time, the 1936 Summer Games were still three years away. Earlier
that year, on March 20, 1933 Hitler opened the first SS concentration
camp in Dachau, Austria, [pictured below] only a short distance
from Munich. As the international community watched, dissidents including
Jews,
liberals, socialists, trade unionists, communists, homosexuals, petty
criminals, slackers and intellects who disagreed with Hitler’s
abrogation of human rights were incarcerated—without trials. Ultimately,
as the German horde swept across Europe, Poland would become the haven
for most of the Nazi extermination camps. On April 1, 1933 the Nazis—who
were being cordially greeted back into the world community, and were being
honored by hosting the 1936 Summer games, began boycotting all Jewish-owned
businesses in Germany. Then, ignoring Germany’s human rights violations,
on July 14, 1933 the Reichstag passed a law which mandated that all mentally
handicapped people, all blacks and all gypsies must be sterilized. The
IOC, which was happy that Germany had returned to the “community
of nations,” ignored these human rights violations just as the current
IOC has opted to ignore China’s forced sterilization, and
its imprisoning of dissidents who complain of human rights violations
in that nation.
In fact, when
the Nazis began their first wave of arresting homosexuals and lesbians
in October, 1934, the IOC failed to note those civil rights abuses,
either. They were too busy planning for the 1936 Summer Games. Perhaps
they believed that magically, when the Summer Games began Germany would
see the error of its way and cast aside its human rights violations, make
a mea culpa to the world, and join the community of nations. In
reality, Germany was the key to the economic stability of central Europe.
The decision to bring the 1936 Olympics to Berlin was not made by Count
Samaranch, it was made by a group of international bankers and industrialists—the
same group of transnationalist bankers and 
industrialists
who now view the population of the world as “human capital,”
with China being the richest nation in the world with that exploitable
commodity.
To Hitler, like Jiang Zemin, hosting the Olympics was not about building global friendships. It was, and still is, about testing the mettle of one’s enemies and proving that, in a test of strength and dexterity, that you are physically superior to your enemies. Nazification, like Maoist communism in China, affected all areas of German life. When he took power, Hitler appointed Hans von Tschammer und Osten to head the Reich Sports Office which oversaw training for the 1936 games. To Hitler, the Olympics were all about politics. The Olympics would be used to prove to the world that the Aryan race was the “master race.” Non-Aryans, particularly Jews, were not allowed to participate. In fact, when the 1936 Winter Games commenced on February 6, 1936 at Garmisch-Partenkirchen signs that read “Juden unerwuenscht” (Jews Not Welcome) were posted in the town. Those same banners flew even more blatantly over Berlin when the Summer Games started on August 1. Hitler commissioned the publication of a woman’s athletic magazine, Das Deutsche Madel (The German Girl) to encourage Aryan women to participate in the Olympics.
Contrary to the expressed views of IOC president Samaranch that politics plays no role in the selection of the countries which will host the Olympic games (bribery, of course, aside), the decision is generally a political one based almost entirely on global economics. It is only when the bribes to Olympic officials are large enough that personal economics rather than global strategy determines where the Olympics will be held.
The official position of the IOC is that it was a democratic vote that determined Beijing would be granted the 2008 Summer Olympics. And, to dissuade the nay-sayers, the IOC posted the balloting for those who still believe in the tooth fairy and also believe that democracy reigns behind locked doors. According to their press release in the “first round” of voting, Beijing received 44 votes, Toronto received 20, Istanbul received 17 and Paris, 15. Olympic officials in Toronto insist that, in the final vote (in which Beijing reportedly received 56 votes and Toronto got 22), they were “neck-and-neck” with Beijing, but that political levers were pulled to throw the games to Beijing.
The Flip-Flopped America View
Liberal Congressman Tom Lantos [D-CA] who has never seen a communist dream or socialist prank that he did not love, urged the House of Representatives to pass a resolution opposing China’s bid. Of course, that’s pretty much like trying to milk the cow after it’s left the barn. Lantos denounced the decision with a blistering statement that should have been made by a Republican. “This decision,” Lantos said, “will allow the Chinese police state to bask in the reflected glory of the Olympic Games despite having one of the most abominable human rights records in the world.” (Actually, in the view of this writer, China’s human rights records dovetails with Nazi Germany’s, with neither having an edge on the other.) “China lacks political, religious and press freedoms, and it is an absolute outrage that the IOC has decided to reward China’s deteriorating human rights record by giving Beijing the honor of hosting the Olympics.”
I’m certain someone in the British or French Parliaments said something to the same extent when Germany was awarded the 1936 Summer Games as well—particularly after the atrocities began to surface—long before the Summer Games of 1936 began. Just as though languishing in Dachau would likely have wondered what the international community was thinking in 1934-36, I am equally certain that if they knew, those Chinese dissidents who are incarcerated in China’s prison factories and who are forced to work for 12 to 18 hours per day—for two meals a day if they’re lucky—churning out all the cheap trinkets being sold in America, would dejectedly wonder as well. Just as the French and British had to wonder why the 1936 Summer Games were not withdrawn from Berlin when German troops marched, unopposed, into the Rhineland on March 7, 1936, starting World War II.
When Bush spokeswoman Condoleeza Rice was asked about it, she said it was entirely “an IOC decision.” The Bush Administration has remained neutral in the selection process, although clearly, a word from Bush would have placed the games in Toronto. “American athletes are going to go there, and they’re going to compete and hopefully compete very well and bring home lots of gold medals,” Rice said. “As to human rights in China and the agenda for human rights in our bilateral relationship with China, the president has made very clear that human rights will be on the agenda.” Of course, Bush has made it clear that the return of our EP-3E Aries II is on the agenda as well, and that aircraft, now in pieces, is still in China. Perhaps they will give us a new one once they finish cloning it.
And, where Lantos was critical of China, GOP Congressman Jim Kolbe [R-AZ] played the wimp. Last month Kolbe, whose war chest is fueled by the transnationalists who also believe in the tooth fairy and think that China is going to open its doors and allow the world’s largest companies to sell to the “human capital” of China, introduced a resolution in Congress encouraging the federal government not to adopt a “preference” on a host city, saying that a Beijing victory could be the catalyst that would help open China to democratic influence. Makes you wonder if Kolbe’s congressional district is somewhere off in the Land of Oz because Kolbe certainly isn’t living in the real world. And, Kolbe has very likely hired a very good fiction writer as a speech writer because not even Kolbe could believe the garbage he spewed in his press release about China being awarded the 2008 Summer Games.
“It represents great progress for China in the last two decades,” Kolbe’s speech writer wistfully wrote. ”Concerns about human rights will continue to be made and we will monitor the situation during the next seven years. This is a positive step in China’s role in the world stage and a good omen for US-China relations.” For rhetoric, it sounded...well...kinda Washingtonian. The United States, as it desperately seeks the magic key to open the “entrance” gate in the Bamboo Curtain instead of the “exit” gate, will sorely discover when it is too late that [a] China might have a lot of people, but it has no human capital since [b] for human capital to be considered ‘capital” it must have an income sufficient to buy goods.
China Will Continue to Play Us Like A Fiddle
Let’s face it. Trade will China will always be a one-way street. China needs money. Lots of money. If you think the Soviet Union’s military arsenal was obsolete—and their scud missiles (which were used by Iraq during Desert Storm) couldn’t hit the broad side of a large city, the Soviet’s nuclear arsenal was 21st century stuff compared to China’s. China’s missile program was akin to nuclear fireworks. It was a coin toss whether the rockets they fired would go into space or hang around over the city or village from which they were fired and then fall back to the ground, killing everyone within the lethal radius of the fuel explosion. Add a nuclear warhead to those rockets, and China would have destroyed half of its population while trying to get one rocket fired at Los Angeles (their west coast city of choice). It was not until Bill Clinton’s campaign contributors at Loral Space Communications and Hughes Electronics (which developed China’s spy satellites) taught them how to perfect that the guidance system in their Long March 3B rockets that China really started becoming a threat.
Make no bones about it. China is playing America like a cheap fiddle. And, it will continue to do so. The transnationalist industrialists and bankers who are drooling over China’s “human capital” as they try to figure out what concessions they can make to the People’s Republic of China in order to get the entrance key to the Bamboo Curtain. There is no key—and there is no “human capital.” All China has is about a billion people trying to find the exit key themselves. All China has to offer the world is slave labor. It is slave labor being used very adroitly by the taskmasters in Beijing to create a sufficient amount of cheap and attractive baubles and trinkets that the consumers in the United States and Europe will spend their hard earned money on, providing China with the funds it needs to further modernize their nuclear arsenal until, like Germany in 1936, it is ready to launch an attack on those who believed when they became a participating member of the global community their zeal for world domination would somehow end. Those in the International Olympic Committee, and the utopians in the United Nations, in the European Union and the transnationalist industrialists and bankers who have supported economic communism since the beginning of the 20th century who believe China can be bribed into submission will shortly awaken to the reality that China, like Germany in the 1930s, has no interest in the global community—except as submissive satellites of the People’s Republic of China.
Boycott All Olympic Sponsors
Half of America’s largest corporations are national and international sponsors of the Olympics. That, of course, should not surprise to anyone since they are the same transnational corporations that are seeking access to China’s “human capital.” As citizens of the only nation on Earth in which the people remain supreme, we need to take matters in our own hands. Once we understand that every political action that occurs anywhere in the world is based on an economic catalyst, then it should occur to us that we, as a collective society, have the power to force the Olympic Committee— whether they are inclined to do so or not—to withdraw the 2008 games from Beijing and place them in Toronto, Canada or in some other city in a nation that respects human rights.
If we object to the Olympics being held in Beijing—which most Americans, even liberals, do—then we need to boycott every American corporation that is now, or ever was, an official Olympics sponsor or member. We need to make it clear to these corporations, which fund the IOC, that they have seen their last dollars from the American consumers until the 2008 games are pulled from China and placed in a nation which observes, and respects, human rights.
We, as a people, need to wake up to the fact that we are funding our own destruction by purchasing any products made in China. But, with the transnationalist industrialists working so hard to give so much to a nation that is bent only on the destruction of the United States of America on the mistaken belief that China will open its doors to commerce from their multinational conglomerates and add tons of riches upon them as they seek new outlets for their wares in the 21st century, we need to extend that boycott to those companies who proudly claim to be Olympic sponsors. And...we need to do it...NOW.
