I’m glad the Olympics are in Beijing this year. It will give the rest of the world the chance to do what it did not get to do in 1980-drive home a point to a huge communist dictatorship by kicking some Chinese ass on the athletic fields.
I hate Jimmy Carter for 3 specific reasons:
1) He gave away the Panama Canal.
2) He kept the US Olympic team from going to Moscow and kicking Russian ass in front of the entire world.
3) I had to pay 15.5% interest on a house loan in 1981.
Japan Probe has an interesting post about the so-called politeness of the Chinese-shown so gracefully by the Chinese recently to USS Kitty Hawk. Witness what happened to Japan’s women athletes at a Word Cup match:
When the Japanese women’s soccer team unfurled a banner of gratitude at the Hangzhou Huanglong Stadium, it belied what had happened for 90 minutes before. Japan, trying desperately to get into the knockout phase of the women’s World Cup, had to endure not only the onslaught by reigning champions Germany on the pitch, but also a chorus of abuse from the almost 40,000 spectators, who had come not so much to cheer the Europeans but to jeer their Asian neighbours.
In this group A finale in the coastal city of Hangzhou 13 days ago, heckling and booing threatened to bring down the roof whenever the Japanese gained possession. A huge German flag was passed around the stands by a mostly Chinese, 39,817-strong crowd. The overwhelming partisan support for the Germans – who won 2-0 – coupled with obscenities directed at the Japanese, certainly raised a lot of eyebrows. “People paid a proper standing tribute to the German national anthem but once the strains of the Japanese anthem set in, most of them sat down and booed,” said a German journalist. “To be honest, it was really impolite.” Yet the Japanese women were undaunted. They returned to the pitch after the final whistle, held up a banner reading “Thank you China” and bowed to the stands in all directions.
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“There is no doubt that Japanese athletes will have to live with the hostility [at the Beijing Olympics],” said Tong Zeng, a leading activist in the campaign to defend China’s sovereignty over the Diaoyu islands. “The resentment is justified and a natural response towards a sports team representing a former invader that denies its tainted past.” Asked whether the goodwill banner by the Japanese women conjured any sympathy, Tong replied: “It’s a heart-warming display of kindness, but again I don’t think it will do much to put an end to the heckling.”
Or this little demonstration of so called tolerance:
The man on the right is saying, “Kill Japanese! Small Japan should die!”
It might bring a more sympathetic reaction from me if China’s hands were not equally bloody- I guess we are not supposed to remember their own invasions. Or the 33,000 Americans killed by stinking Chinese commies during the Korean War. Or the threat they pose today to the United States and the rest of Asia.
its been over 60 years since World War II. Give it up!
Which is why I am hoping Western athletes go to Beijing and kick Chinese ass. Again and again. The Star Bangled Banner needs to become the Olympic’s unofficial theme song.
Its the best way to put China in its place. Cause you are always winning when China is losing………………….