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In 1936, a country under a totalitarian government hosted the summer Olympics. The regime successfully projected an image during these Olympics that convinced a great number of people that the regime was benign and good. This regime, of course, was the Nazis, who later went on to kill twelve million civilians and start a world war in which even more people died.
In 2008, another country under a totalitarian regime is hosting the summer Olympics. This country, Communist China, has a horrible record on human rights. They censor their internet and imprison dissidents. Yet they won the bid to host these games back in 2001 because they promised to make the 2008 Olympics "green". In the years leading up to the 2008 Olympics, China employed the services of internationally known architects and urban planners to completely redesign their city. They are putting up a face of Communism for the world to see, a face intended to deceive us. They would have us believe that Communism works, yet nothing could be further from the truth.
We all know the saying: "Those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it." Letting countries like Communist China or Nazi Germany host the Olympics just is not a good idea. By doing this, we (as in the free world) enable them with an excellent propaganda opportunity that can only serve to undermine us.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Or, put more pithily, people never learn.
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same
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Nice post, and I couldn't agree more.
Maureen
"who later went on to kill twelve million civilians"
Its the first I have heard that the nazis killed 12 million civilians,
please enlighten me.
It is generally accepted that between nine and twelve million people were murdered in the Holocaust. We'll probably never have an exact number, but I was always taught that twelve million people in all were killed, the majority being Jews, of course.
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6,000,000 of those being Jews is the way it went apparently. Great piece, thinking about China being given the Olympics really is maddening. At least more people will be talking sooner rather than later about how there are really two very different Chinas in one.
Maybe in the future it will be in Saudi Arabia or Venezuela.
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
just host sporting events
communists must always seek
planetary approval
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe loves
corrupt governments
denying outside help
with tragic avalanche
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe loves
capitalism's faults
but prefers communism
with its many miseries
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
never admit mistakes
cling to false ideologies
brainwash your countrymen
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
cause food shortages
implement price controls
destroy all family farms
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And the architect of the 2008 games was the son of Albert Speer. Yes, that Albert Speer.
Yes, I did hear about that... he designed the central axis into the city, if I remember correctly.
And by the time 2012 comes round, the UK will be a fully fledged totalitarian police state as well. Must be something to do with the "Olympic ideal" that they keep on harping on about!
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