Posted by
skep41 on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:48:25 PM
A
couple of years ago we witnessed the results of the earthquake and
tidal wave on the residents of Thailand, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka. The
world responded. The US Navy had aircraft carriers with helicopters in
the area within a couple of days and aid reached even the most isolated
victims as quickly as humanly possible. The governments of these
nations actively helped the effort. A huge outpouring of donations was
generated by the NGO's who were out in the front of the relief efforts.
Now
we're faced with the results of a similar-scale disaster in Burma.
There is a horrible difference. The government of Burma (I refuse to
accept the name the illegal clique of generals running it use to
describe the country they have hijacked) is refusing to allow any
foreign aid to be sent to its people and is not sending any of its own.
The world is sitting silently by and watching a government cause the
deaths of tens of thousands of its own citizens.
Well, thats nothing
new. The mass deaths caused by socialist economic policies, from the
artificial famines caused by Stalin in the 1930's , the mountains of
corpses generated by Mao's policies, through the man-made carnage
caused by the Soviets in Ethiopia in the 1980's ("We Are The World")
and the ongoing nightmare of hunger in North Korea have gone
uncriticized by a silent world. The worst examples of this going on
right now are in Burma, Zimbabwe, North Korea and Sudan. What do all
these countries have in common? They are allied with and supported by
China.
China, the country which surrounded Mt Everest with troops,
holding guns on the members of mountain-climbing expeditions so the
Olympic Flame could scale the peak unmolested by critics of China's
repulsive and vile regime. China, the country which arrests domestic
opponents on trumped-up charges, executes them and sells their body
parts to organ banks.
China, the country who will be the host of the
Olympics this year. The Olympics which will be held in a city scraped
clean of the homeless and of all dogs and cats, considered unsightly by
the paranoid crackpots at the head of the Chinese Communist Party and
so consigned to death.
The Olympics I wont be watching and whose sponsors I will not be patronizing.