Something's got to give

Yeah I know real original. But more on that later.


I am growing tired of this war. We keep hearing about what great we're doing and what a positive force we are in the region. I just don't see it.



We have managed a few things but they aren't positive. We have managed to destroy the reputation of a once proud country while making the majority of its citizens hate us in the process. We have managed to drive the reputation of our proud nation in the eyes of the world into the ground. Everybody hates us, except most of Africa. And sadly that is only a slight exageration. Do I have a solution? No. But neither does anyone else.

We are approaching the summer games in Beijing this year and the situatuion in Tibet is getting worse instead of better. The olympic torch is making its way towards China and is causing trouble to brew and protests abound.

As stated in my previous post, I feel like protesting. If only I could make it to China, I would love to help the expose some of the horrible situations that brew in some of the most hidden places in the world.

Places in which the government censors the internet, and denies its citizens basic human rights. The story in Rural China is absolutely amazing, there are people who are desparately poor and whose voices of unrest usually end up in people being sent to the labor camps. Meanwhile the skyscrapers and big businesses boom in Urban China, really a sad situation. The disparity between the two is really unimaginable and it gets worse as the days go by.

What's going to happen when the Olympics come to China? Will the world hear the voices of those quieted by the all powerful State?

I hope we don't see something similar to when Argentina hosted the World Cup in 1978 only two years after a military dicatorship. The famed wall of shame was built up leading through the shanty towns, made up of tall and thick concrete its purpose was to keep the poor masses out of view. On the sides facing the roads were painted faux landscapes with beautiful houses, that from the road looked like neighborhoods. The perfect plan to fool the world into thinking that the "real" Argentina wasn't really suffering. Until. The residents of the shanty towns decided that the concrete in the wall looked good enough to take and use on their own houses instead and bit by bit during the beginning of the tournament the wall was taken apart.

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Now in the information age such a trick wouldn't work, I suspect. But, the Chinese have to do something with the almost 800 million rural chinese who barely scrape by subsistence living, who might want to use the global games as a voice for their ills.

And that doesn't even include the masses of Tibetans and Han Chinese living in Western China who are growing increasingly upset with China's handling of this situation and the handling of the Dalai Lama who, in my eyes at least, has handled this all incredibly well.

The Chinese need to shape up fast or this Summer and the Olympics is going to turn into a royal disaster.

Courtesy to yingsel for this picture.