ARTIFICIAL SPECTACLE…
August 4th, 2008 | by Big Fella | Published in Daily Featured, Environment, Government, Human Rights, News, Politics | 11 Comments
Categories
Tag-a-liciousness
08 Election action Betmo's Posts Bush Children's Issues Constitutional Crisis culture Daily Featured Dez's Blog Roundup Dezzi's Posts dizzy's ten post round up Dizzy Dezzis Posts Economy Executive Privilege Family Values my Ass Federal Government grass roots Health Care Humor hypocrisy International Politics Iraq War Its about the Oil stupid Judiciary mccain music Musical Interludes News Obama Other Stuff Peace Movement Politics Presidential Candidates Racism random goodies random news relationships SageFevers Posts scandal snark The Corporotocracy Torture War weird youtubeSelf Explanatory
Recent Posts
- not to rain on anyone’s convention
- This was the week!
- Court bars meat company from testing for Mad Cow.
- Is Bush behind Chinese oil deal and Russian isolation?
- McCain Chooses VP
- PANDERING History
- Pondering history…
- well, in all fairness…
- McCain picks former Ms. Alaska as running mate.
- historic moments
- Here’s the Joke
- Thought of this Video while listening to Barack speak
- happy birthday same mccain!!!
- wow. just wow.
- i wish i could still believe in these words
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: echotechnoratitags() in /home/siren/public_html/wp-content/plugins/autometa/autometa.php on line 556
August 4th, 2008at 10:22 pm(#)
Great way to say a million things Big Fella. Thank you.
Dustys last blog post..Jesus H. Christ..wtf happened?
August 5th, 2008at 2:00 am(#)
I don’t support a boycott and I want the Beijing Olympics to be a success.
But the Games are a chance, while the world is watching, to press China for change.
Without change China will carry on executing more of its citizens than any other country in the world, it will continue censoring the media and the Internet and it will continue locking up and torturing those who try to stand up for their rights and the rights of others.
It isn’t political. To stand up for human rights is to stand up for the values enshrined in the Olympic Charter.
http://www.uncensor.com.au
kims last blog post..Internet companies’ voluntary code of conduct
August 5th, 2008at 8:58 am(#)
That the Olympics were allowed to be hosted by one of the worlds worst offenders of human rights is total bullshit. It was political or they never would of gotten them!
The boycott is something I have mixed feelings about. I feel on one side the damage was done by giving them the games in the first place..no use to boycott them now and screw the athletes. The U.S. is also not one to bitch about human rights abuses..look at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.
But on the other hand..if you are a true supporter of human rights around the world, you can not support this years Olympics in any way shape or form. They have a chance to do what? Continue lying and killing/jailing dissidents? And they will never change because they don’t have to now!
August 5th, 2008at 10:10 am(#)
With or without the Olympics, the repression and corruption in China continues, a million Chinese people have lost their homes so that Beijing could put on a pretty face, countless others have been rounded up and moved out of sight and overt censorship and restriction of movement will continue throughout the games.
I will be ignoring the Olympics, so I won’t be supporting or paying attention in any way, directly or indirectly to the Beijing games. I am also fed up with the Olympic movement, the Olympics have become simply a business in their own way and a marketing tool. I have no interest in being bombarded with all of the media hype, and a bit of disgust that an NBA millionaire, professional athlete, will stroke his ego by participating in the games, while someone tries to sell me Pepsi-Cola.
Big Fellas last blog post..ARTIFICIAL SPECTACLE…
August 5th, 2008at 10:38 am(#)
I haven’t watched the Olympics in over a decade Big Fella..personal choice for many of the reasons you list as well.
As to the call for country’s to boycott this sorry shit..I do have very mixed emotions on it like I said.
There are still some amateur athletes that participate..and I hate that they might lose their one shot at excelling on the world stage.
August 5th, 2008at 1:14 pm(#)
But where else can I get my synchronized swimming fix?
http://www.truveo.com/Mens-Synchronized-Swimming/id/1980340333
August 5th, 2008at 1:46 pm(#)
Those pictures certainly tell it all except for the pollution. I was just watching American athletes arriving in Beijing wearing masks. That is sick! That is the air that ends up in California.
It bothers me too because I don’t think China should be holding the Olympics because of their record but then look at us! What the hell do the Olympics represent today? Bush is going to the opening not to support our athletes but to support our Bank China. It is sick! I will check in on the Olympics only because this is the perfect venue to send a me4ssage and I expect something to happen despite China!
Jims last blog post..I have to digress from important issues once again to discuss his rapidly developing Forever War!
August 5th, 2008at 2:03 pm(#)
Robb-
Picture this: a mad scientist clones 19 copies of Borat (and his very special bathing attire), and starts a synchronized swimming team…
Big Fellas last blog post..ARTIFICIAL SPECTACLE…
August 5th, 2008at 2:16 pm(#)
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW Big Fella!
Dustys last blog post..Buddy Guy and the Stones…
August 7th, 2008at 3:59 pm(#)
really amazing post, thank you for putting this together…and I love that you ended it with the TANK MAN….the missing man of Courage…I don;t know what will happen…but as my son said “Well, now the whole world will be watching….and they will see it for the country that it really is…and I didn’t want the games there..still don’t ..but maybe the Chinese will also see and meet people from the rest of the world…and that will still feed their desire for real freedom”….
my son has a real thing for the TANK MAN…I have had the poster since 1989….and my son took it to his room when he was 5 and it has been there ever since..and everytime we move he hangs it up….to him it is about the” Courage Against Bigger Evil Forces- No Matter What”….he is a teen now…but he said “that the world has to change from within and without” …He said that the Olympics will plant a seed for much BIGGER change…for all of us…I hope and pray that he is right…
But I still have a very heavy heart about these Games…
August 7th, 2008at 4:22 pm(#)
Enigma-
As far as Tank Man, the Chinese government has done quite a job burying that episode from the history books. They don’t tolerate any kind of dissent.
You might want to Goggle “Chinese Petitioners”. Petitioning is about the only recourse Chinese have when trying to correct “wrongs” or “appeal” to government authorities. Typically petitioners travel from their homes to Beijing and find very cheap, low end lodging, or end up camping out, and then go to the respective ministries to hand in their petitions. Many times the petitions are to address grievances caused by corrupt local officials, so the locals send out “bounty hunters” to Bejing to grab the petitioners and bring them back before they can submit their petitions. The central government just ran a clean-up, and rounded up all the petitioners they could find, in low rent hotels, under bridge overpasses, in front of government ministries, anywhere they might be, and threw them in the clink or deported them from the city.