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Marked in Pgh on Monday, August 25, 2008 6:30:46 PM
Before and during the men's 400 meters at the Olympics last week, it rained through the smog, possibly producing acid rain in the Bird's Nest. The three Americans ran through that acidic drizzle and swept the event. By doing so, the Americans again upstaged their xenophobic hosts. This was supposed to be the coming out party for Jungwa, or the Central Kingdom, and the coming of age games for the Chinese, the Jungwa Ren, or people of the Central Kingdom. How dare the Americans win more overall medals at the games and show the strength of individual initiative over the centralized planning, and scheming, of the communist rulers of China.
Where's the much vaunted socialized medicine the Left is always going on about as an alternative to the American health care system? Would the running dog imperialist exploaters of the working class proleteriat cover the potential damage of the smog and the acid rain to foreign workers like the American athletes, or injuries to possible child laborers on the so-called Chinese Women's Gymnasitcs Team? Such cavalier attitude brings up other considerations about the tendencies of the ethnocentic Han Chinese.
How did the ever compassionate communist officials and their princeling offspring in their SUVs construct all the venues for the 2008 Olympics in and around one of the most populace cities in the world? Simple, they forcefully uprooted and relocated up to a million people to make way for the construction. The people, the Ren of the People's Republic of China, have no choice or power to resist. They had to be moved and they were moved, in a sick endorsement of centralized planning.
The construction of the Olympics in a communist country was a simple act of tyranny, one missed by the news media who hardly ever see anything wrong with communist dictatorships. The only relevant, troubling aspects about this event is it could eventually happen here in America, following the dictates of the Supreme Court's ruling (as in reigning) in the New London case. The only difference is, in the xenophobic Central Kingdom, the national communist government itself becomes the benefeciaries of the land grab as well as the final agent for the communist Mandarins, the only people with guns and power in such an insular society.
The one thing overlooked by all the planning and propaganda geared toward announcing the new big dog on the block were the efforts of American athletes, Phelps, Clay and the others. This also includes athletes from other countries at the Olympics who also frustrated and upstaged the Central Kingdom. Americans, in particular, have this nasty habit of tripping up the assumptions of dictators, even as the dictators try everything to win and sanctify those assumptions. We do that by running through the acid rains, or acidic reigns of those who think they are the only ones who matter and by doing so, overcome them.