Long Jail Sentence for Another China Democracy Party Member

Wang Rongqing 王荣清, a member of the banned China Democracy Party 中国民主党 (CDP), has been sentenced to six years’ imprisonment on charges of subversion of state power.  Wang was arrested in Hangzhou around June last year, in what was widely believed to be CCP’s well planned manoeuvre to use the Beijing Olympics as an excuse to eliminate well-known dissident groups.

The Iron Curtain Envelops Nepal

From Reliefweb:

 

Earlier this week, the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) singled out the Maoists for increasing violence against other parties in the run-up to the elections.  The head of UNMIN, Ian Martin told UN Radio that there has been a great deal of obstruction by the Maoists of the campaigns of other political parties:

 

“The Maoists themselves have suffered more killings of their cadres, but they have engaged in a pattern of preventing other parties from campaigning in what they regard as their base areas.  They have great difficulty in accepting that royalist parties also have a right to campaign and that’s lead to far too many instances of violence.”

And from the Times of India:

 

KATHMANDU: At least 300 Tibetans were rounded up on Monday as hundreds of Tibetan refugees staged demonstrations against China in the Nepalese capital at two different places including one near the United Nations office….CPN-Maoist chairman Prachanda has extended support to Chinese government’s suppression of the Tibetans saying that it is China’s duty to control separatist violence.

 

“We cannot term the Chinese government’s step to check violence unleashed by the separatists in Tibet as ‘crackdown,’”  he said.

 

Ah, I see.  In accord with China’s Propaganda Department, Nepal’s Maoist party chairman has adopted the Orwellian Newspeak redefinition of a crackdown as, well “not a crackdown.”

If it’s not a “crackdown”, then what the hell is it?

Anschluss: Reports of China’s Invasion of Nepal

As we’ve been blogging about repeatedly for the past two weeks or so, the Olympic Torch’s planned path up Mount Everest is a symbolic expansion of China’s borders, a public demonstration that Nepal is now China’s prison-bitch.

And now our friend the inestimable Tom in Hong Kong has come up with this bit about Chinese troops in Nepal.

What’s next?   Will China’s next move be to “peacefully liberate”  India?

 

Boycott the 2012 London Olympics

Are the British government and Britain’s international trading partners representing the 2012 London Olympics as some kind of “coming out party” for Britain, which, if boycotted, would “hurt the feelings” of the British people? Does anyone expect the 2012 Olympic Torch to be taken defiantly through the Catholic areas of Belfast?

Of course those are absurd rhetorical questions. But those absurdities – and the possibility which at least I anticipate of similarly absurd worldwide protests against Britian’s “human rights” record in 2012 – demonstrate how the perceived significance of the Olympics as a whole has degenerated perhaps beyond the point of redemption.

Maybe it’s time to give the Olympics a decent burial, before the carcass begins to stink even more.

 

Daffy Duck’s “Public Relations” Allegory for China’s Olympic Torch

0:32, Elmer Fudd (Tibet) fires at Daffy Duck (China) with live ammunition, for the first time in over 50 years.   

1:01, China determines to give Tibet “a severe dressing down”, because Tibet has (in Daffy Duck’s words) “desecrated the spirit of show business make-believe”.

1:13, China orders Tibet to “stick to the script”.   China does not want to lose face.

Finale:   China loses face.

Wile E Coyote on Mount Everest

After the 0:23 second mark of this little Wile E Coyote cartoon clip, you’ll see a perfect metaphor for the consequences of China’s determination to stick the Olympic Torch on top of Mount Everest.

Can they sue the “Acme” company that sold them the dynamite AND the glue at the same time?

 

Vichy Nepal Opens Its Loins, American “China Hands” Lubricate

 

Robert Brasillach (1909-1945) was a French journalist, “intellectual”, rabid antisemite, passionate admirer of German National Socialism (“socialism with German characteristics”), and a collaborator with the German occupiers of France. In 1945 he was put on trial and shot for treason.

Good.

Now, amidst all the mainstream media blather about the situation in Tibet and growing “protests” all over the world, hardly a word is being said about the condition that Nepal has become, in essence, a satellite state of the People’s Republic of China.

Shakespeare was wrong. “Vanity, thy name is a PR MAN!”

Shakespeare was mistaken when he wrote, “Vanity, thy name is Woman.”

No. Vanity’s name is usually Man.   And although the currently available evidence is still sketchy, there are considerable reasons to conclude that it was Western “public relations” consultants, who either by comissions or ommission, were, and are, instrumental in the bloodshed going on in Tibet today, as a proximate consequence of the decision to take the Olympic Torch through Tibet and even to “mount” it upon Everest.

Now, can anyone determine WHO suggested that obviously stupid idea to the Chinese government? Who, who, WHO among Beijing’s Western “Public Relations” consultants were involved instrumentally in THE WORST PUBLIC RELATIONS DISASTER in China for the past twenty years? Who, WHO was the Western IDIOT “public relations consultant” in Beijing who either by commission or omission, played an instrumental role in bringing China’s Olympic Torch to Tibet and thus being a proximate cause of the current bloodbaths in Tibet, not to mention stupidly provoking a situation which now realistically poses to ruin the 2008 Olympics?

It’s Lenovo’s torch. Now, who are Lenovo’s “PR” agents in Beijing? The “public relations” company of “Ketchum” in Beijing SEEMS to be the band of idiots behind this PR disaster.

Update: Lenovo’s Olympic Torch Rapes Tibet

As I explained in yesterday’s blog post:

…the region around Mount Everest has been one of the few avenues of relatively unguarded (even if difficult) permeability between Tibet and the free world.  With the closing of the area around Mount Everest, now Tibet is in the process of becoming almost totally isolated from the outside world, somewhat analogously to East Berlin during the Cold War.  But there will be nothing analogous to the “Berlin Airlift” for the now even more thoroughly imprisoned people of Tibet.  Is it any wonder, then, that the Tibetans have chosen THIS moment to attempt one final outcry to the outside world, before their own “Iron Curtain” descends around them?

Now just one day later, the “Iron Curtain” is descending even faster.  All because of that accursed Torch and the blinkered – no, not just blinkered, but SPIRITUALLY RAPINE – decision to “mount” Tibet and Everest with it.

The more one looks at the design of Lenovo’s Chinese Olympic Torch whose planned passage through Tibet and upon Everest has been the proximate cause of China closing the Nepal border, locking down the entire province and thus provoking the desperate last-ditch protests we’ve been seeing – “last ditch” protests because the Tibetans correctly perceive an “Iron Curtain” descending around themselves at this very moment – the more its phallic symbolism becomes nauseatingly obvious.   

Flaming Stupidity: The Olympic Torch Mounts Tibet

“The March of Folly” is what historian Barbara Tuchman titled her chronicle of the role of willful stupidity in World History.  Her working definition of “political folly” is “the pursuit of policy against self-interest”, of which one operative criterion is “self-deception”, or as I prefer to call it, the unwillingness to think about what you’d rather not think about.  The ancient Greeks called it “hubris”, but 2,500 years of further data from the laboratory of History have elucidated the phenomenon of political folly beyond the Greeks’s initiatory hypotheses.

Tuchman’s list of exemplars of political folly included the Renaissance Popes’ provocation of the Protestant Reformation, the British Government’s unnecessary provocation of American independence, and how America “betrayed itself” in the Viet Nam War.   To that list, now we can add the idiots who were instrumental in China’s decision to include Tibet in the Olympic Torch Route, whose willful stupidity includes the (to use a criminal law term of art) “aggravating circumstance” of actually planning to mount (sarcastic phallic allusion intended) the torch on Mount Everest, one of the most prominent symbols of a land against whose people, and against whose traditional religion, the atheist Chinese Communist Party is mortally hostile.