Beijing’s neo-pagans, please learn your Runelore

Further evidence that the developed world, including Beijing, is on the threshold of a New Dark Age. From (Australian) ABC:

Anger in South Korea is growing over violence during Sunday’s torch relay, recorded on widely circulated video clips, in which Chinese students attacked Koreans staging protests against Beijing’s rights record.

“Some Chinese students came out to safeguard the dignity of the torch. I believe that’s natural,” Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said when asked to comment on the clashes.

The “dignity of the torch”? And they’ve also been calling it the “Sacred Torch”. So now the Communist Party has begun to worship fetishes and idols.

Here at the Jacaranda Tree we have posted several pieces regarding the neo-pagan Nazi origins of the Olympic Torch, and our friend MAJ has contributed several passages of ample and incisive commentary on the torch and the Olympics as “hyper-real” (or as I say, “hypo-real”) fetishes of vulgar commercialization – which is really another kind of paganism. Jesus was killed because he scourged the moneychangers in the Temple. Yet even the radical materialist, Marx, despised the fetishisation of material objects; how much more would he be outraged by China’s current fetishisation of Lenovo and Coca Cola?

Inside the mind of the man who planned the torch route

Exclusive from Under the Jacaranda Tree, here is a look inside the mind of the defective individual who came up with the idea of taking the Olympic Torch to Mount Everest.

He likes fire, that much we can tell you.

Lenovo exploits a racist smear. Whose yak is gored?

Does anyone out there remember the infamous Willie Horton tv ad of George Bush’s 1988 Presidential campaign?    Here it is again, to refresh your memory.    It’s only 28 seconds.

Now you might recall that rightly or wrongly, the American Left widely perceived the Willie Horton ad to have been a racist smear upon Black Americans, because Willie Horton was, after all, Black.

So now I wonder where are all those same self-described “liberal”, “multicultural”, “anti-racist” American voices now that the propaganda campaign surrounding Olympic Torch-bearer Jin Jing has relied just as cynically upon racial stereotyping as did the Bush campaign’s Willie Horton ad.    Or has anyone even noticed?   The grimacing face of her putative Tibetan “attacker” - whose name and nationality conveniently remain unidentified – has been published all over China, playing upon Han Chinese racial fears of Tibetans.

Serving China’s PR organs = loss of US citizenship, part two

Just in case this needs an illustration,

Dramatis Personae:

Ren (the penetrator)  = the PLA

Stimpy (the penetrated) = American PR whores in Beijing

Serving China’s PR organs = loss of US citizenship, part one

American PR whores serving China’s propaganda machine, beware.

US Code Title 8, Chapter 12….section 1481:

A person who is a national of the United States…shall lose his nationality by…entering, or serving in, the armed forces of a foreign state if…such armed forces are engaged in hostilities against the United States

China is an ally of North Korea.   To this day, the armed forces of North Korea are still engaged in hostilities against the United States.   (The cease-fire in 1953 did not end the Korean War; it merely suspended the fighting indefinitely.)    In this light, the armed forces of China are engaged in hostilities against the United States.   (And they are so engaged, de facto, in any case.)

China’s PR organs, most especially those who have organised the Torch Relay, directly serve the interests of the PLA.    The Torch Relay is an instrument of PLA intervention in other countries, most especially Nepal.

In light of the above, it seems reasonable to argue that for a US citizen to contract with a Chinese corporation to serve the Olympic Torch’s PR campaign, is a de facto act of service for the armed forces of China, resulting in loss of US citizenship. 

Unintended Consequences 102

Now as a supplement to Catherine’s post about unintended consequences, here is an illustration.

Unintended Consequences 101: An Australian Response to China’s Arrogant Display of Nationalism at the Canberra Torch Relay

Update

Since this story was published, I received another tip-off from a reader who alerted me to some personal accounts of three Canberra residents who were present at the Canberra torch relay.  Their unpleasant encounters with the pro-China thugs were published on 26 April 2008 in The Canberra Times.

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The arrogant display of nationalism by visiting Chinese during the Canberra Torch Relay may have invoked some unintended consequences that will yield perverse effects contrary to what China originally intended.   The propaganda exercise orchestrated by the Chinese Embassy in Canberra showed little respect for Australia’s social values and national integrity.  The damage they have inflicted on Australia-China relations is nearly catastrophic.

The extent of the damage can be seen from the following comments to the latest Crikey Report about the Canberra Torch Relay:

Finally, the Torch goes where it’s perfectly welcome

They would have saved themselves and the world a lot of trouble if they had limited the entire international Olympic Torch relay to China’s number one ally, North Korea.   It will arrive there in a few days, to an unreservedly fanatical welcome, the kind that the torch’s American public relations firm of Ketchum must be creaming their jeans over.

As the spirit of the Torch is closer kindred of the spirit of North Korea than of any other nation, we urge the US State Department to revoke the passports of all US citizens who work for Ketchum in Beijing, to enable them more easily to immigrate to North Korea where their kind of work is most welcome.

Here’s a North Korean movie clip exemplary of the same “spirit” which has animated the PRC’s “sacred” torch relay throughout the world.   At last, it’s soon to arrive in a country where it is perfectly welcome, where its visit will be 100 percent untainted by any public relations problems.    Ketchum must be thanking God for this anticipated day of relief - or thanking God’s replacement, Kim Jong Il.

The Flying Dutchman is now a Western expat in Beijing

The Flying Dutchman’s hubris doomed him to wander the Earth, homeless, a man without a country, for eternity.

Today you can see many of his shadows in Beijing, most especially in the faces of some Westerners who sold their souls to work as “public relations” whores for China’s propaganda machine in this year of the Olympic Torch of Shame.

The fierce winds, gigantic waves and terrible lightening threatened to sink the Flying Dutchman, but the twisted and fearless captain had a threat of his own. There and then, Vanderdecken swore an oath to the Devil that he would round the Cape even if it took him until Doomsday (the day that the world will come to an end). This foolish act brought a terrible curse down upon the captain, his crew and his ship. From that moment forth they were forced to roam the mighty seas for all eternity as a ghost ship.

Such will be the long term fate of any Foreigners who, today, try to hustle the East as PR agents for an alien power which regards them and their kind as less than fungible.

Lenovo and Ketchum in Beijing, yes I’m looking at you.

 

A Reminder: The Torch Was Designed Specifically for Tibet

The time seems right for a reminder of the proximate cause of the worldwide furor surrounding the Olympic Torch.

It was designed for the specific purpose of the provocative plan to take it to the top of Mount Everest.

As we observed several weeks ago, the consequence of that plan was to lock down Tibet, to envelop Tibet with a new iron curtain and information blackout, and to expand the reach of China’s de facto military control of the Himalayas beyond the border of China and into Nepal. The March 14 riots in Tibet were a direct consequence of the plan to take the torch through Tibet, to Everest, and to seal off Tibet from the outside world.

China’s Western PR agents for the torch relay knew as early as 2007 that the principal purpose of the Torch’s design was to enable it to be taken to Mount Everest. They were fully informed of the plan, yet they collaborated in China’s provocation of the world’s condemnation. They bear as much moral responsibility for the consequences as the Chinese government and the PLA whose interests they have knowingly, willingly served, not under compulsion but – incomparably less forgivable than acting under political compulsion or duress – for lucre and personal prestige.