I have a BIG problem with this. An anchor child wins a gold medal for our country and we are suppose to forget that his birth was the act of criminals?
"I'm proud of my Mexican heritage," Cejudo said. "But I'm an American. It's the best country in the world. They call it the land of opportunity, and it is. Maybe if some other kid watches this, he can do the same." - Henry Cejudo
Another video has been release threatening terrorism with the intent to disrupt the Beijing Olympic Games.
In this video, a previously little known group calling itself the Turkestan Islamic Party claims it carried out several fatal bombings in the country in recent months.
The group's self-described military commander, Seyfullah, said it was responsible for incidents in Shanghai in early May and in the southern city of Kunming on July 21that killed a total of five people.
He also said the group had bombed a plastics factory in the province of Guangdong.
Most ominously, he threatened to carry out further attacks during the Beijing Olympics, which are scheduled to open on tomporrow.
As before, the video begins with Beijing's Olympic logo in flames and with a grainy image of a sports facility superimposed with an animated bomb blast.
Everyone in China needs to be watchful of their surroundings.
"The greatest threat to freedom, as well as the most formidable enemy of it, is a supported cause against it." - Don Williams, Jr.
It has been report by Reuters, in a story by Karolos Grohmann that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Saturday faced mounting questions over Internet censorship, days before the Beijing Games, despite earlier pledges that its use would be unfettered.
While China has allowed access to some websites that were blocked earlier in the week, many sites still remain inaccessible to reporters covering the Beijing Olympics that start on Aug. 8. On Friday the IOC had said the issue had been resolved.
I expected this kind of mess from the ChiComs, but it seems that the IOC is a enabler by allowing this to happen. They knew the ChiComs would pull this crap and they are allwoing them to do as they please.
Let's see what else comes out of Beijing.
"I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself." - Jesse Owens
I found a very interesting site on the Olympic Games that are being held in Beijing. It is called Beijing Olympics Video.
It is posting interesting videos from Beijing concerning the goings on in Beijing in respect to the Olympics. It is hosted by Tai Shi. Currently he is in England for school and blogs to escape the Chinese sensorship of the internet.
Below is the latest cliptation, posted on Wednesday (July 30, 2008). It gives an interesting perspective on the Games.
"The U.S. State Department has warned Americans that there is a "heightened risk that extremist groups will conduct terrorist acts within China in the near future." - Quote on Boycott 2008 Communist Olympics Blogsite
China will censor the Internet used by foreign media during the Olympics, an organising committee official confirmed Wednesday, reversing a pledge to offer complete media freedom at the Games.
"During the Olympic Games we will provide sufficient access to the Internet for reporters," said Sun Weide, spokesman for the organising committee.
He confirmed, however, that journalists would not be able to access information or websites connected to the Falungong spiritual movement which is banned in China.
Other sites were also unavailable to journalists, he said, without specifying which ones.
This does not surprise me. China wants to limit all negative or questional media leaving the country during the Games. I do expect some censored media reports will slip out ,as journalists, bloggers, and the such have ways of getting around firewalls.
"Censorship in any form is the enemy of creativity, since it cuts off the life blood of creativity: ideas." - Allan Jenkins
With less than two weeks to go before the Olympics open in Beijing, the Chinese government is facing the horrendous possibility of terrorist attacks aimed at the Games. On July 23 an apparent terrorist group called the Turkestan Islamic Party released a video taking responsibility for bus bomb blasts a few days before in the southwestern city of Kunming that killed two people. The group also claimed as its own another attack in Shanghai that killed three people in May.
According to global intelligence analysts Stratfor, the Turkestan Islamic Party is another name used by the Islamic Party of East Turkestan (ETIM), an ethnic Uighur and Muslim separatist group seeking to create an independent state out of China’s westernmost, heavily Muslim Xinjiang province. This group has been designated by both the United States and China as a terrorist group.
Something is going to happen at the Olympics. Mark my words. The Olympics are too big a stage not to attempt something. Terrorists bent on destruction will find a way to disrupt the Games.
Do not construe my statement to be a voice of support for the terrorists. I just think some whacko or group of whackos will try something. With their mindset, this may be too big an opportunity not to pass up. If they do, it will have been months, perhaps years in the planning.
We, meaning the decent law abiding people of the world, need to be ready with a response if a terrorist act occurs.
I hope and pray nothing happens, but deep in my bones, I think something will.
This below video is in Arabic (I think). I will look for a translation and post it later. Look at the pictures and listen to the sound and draw your own conclusions. This is CRAZY!!!
"When you give religiously inspired zealots weapons of mass destruction and you promise them that if they kill innocent people they will go to heaven, imagine what the consequences are." - Alan M. Dershowitz
The 2008 Olympic Torch Relay began today in Greece. Actors portraying Greek priestesses ignited the torch.
Experience taught me that there would be protests during the event and indeed, they did happen.
Political activists made good on their promise to protest the lighting of the Olympic torch on the site of Ancient Olympia today. In response to the ongoing situation in Tibet, the group Reporters Without Borders, or RSF, had been calling for a complete boycott of the opening ceremony, saying in a statement:
"We cannot let the Chinese government seize the Olympic flame, a symbol of peace, without denouncing the dramatic human rights situation in the country"
Three members of the RSF busted through a line of over 1,000 police officers (3 against 1,000 – and they got through)? That is not my idea of security with one running up behind the head of the Beijing Olympic committee while he was giving us internationally broadcast speech. The protester was holding a black flag that depicted the Olympic Rings made from handcuffs.
An hour later another group of protesters covered in red paint laid down in the town's main street, before being chased down by the cops. International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge publicly commended the protesters on their ability to remain non-violent during their protest.
This Olympics is going to be interesting. The protests in Mexico City 1968 and boycotts in Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 1984 are going to seem like child’s play.
I do not foresee any major boycotts but I do see major protests. Stay tuned for further updates.
"To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men" – Abraham Lincoln
Henry Cejudo, the son of Mexican criminal aliens, won a gold medal for the United States in the freestyle 55-kilogram wrestling.
