Chinese hosts continue misdeeds at Olympics

As expected, the conduct of Chinese officials during the Olympics was predictable.

They cheated in the presentation of the overall spectacle in shameful manner. A little Chinese girl singing a maudlin song at the onset of the games turned out to be a lip-syncer who the totalitarians decided presented better than the real singer. Why? Because the original signer wasn’t pretty enough.

Part of the stunning fireworks at the opening of the games proved to be a fraud, concocted by software artists and presented as real when it was just a computer-generated illusion.

Meanwhile, in the competitions themselves, it turns out that the eligibility of some Chinese athletes  is questionable. Their ages, and hence, their size, appears to be falsified. This couldn’t be without the complicity of the communist government, which must issue false passports to these ineligible competitors beforehand.

Is this important? Well, yes. Smaller competitors, for one thing, are smaller and can overcome gravity more easily than their larger opponents.

One can only imagine the exploitative regimen necessary to get young children — talented for sure — to competition at the Olympics level.

What have Olympics organizers done to challenge the Chinese bullies in the aftermath just these misdeeds. Zero, as far as anyone can see.

Now, today, we’re watching news of Western journalists not only being denied access to covering Olympics-related activities, but actually being arresed and detained in those efforts.

These reporters and photographers were trying to cover a group of people protesting the Chinese government’s illegal occupation of Tibet. Sure, they were released, dirtied and bruised after their altercation with Chinese police, but the fact that there is no honoring of promises made earlier not to hamper foreign news coverage is a chilling reminder that this is an Olympic games that never should have been allowed to happen in this country.

The Chinese government promised time and again that the foreign media would be allowed to tell the story of the games and life surrounding it in an unfettered and uncensored manner. No one would have believed that fairy tale possible; no one should have. And now it has not happened.

There’s no solving the situation now. It’s just a matter of letting this shebang run on and run down. But there should be a clear warning to the rest of the world that this Chinese regime — no matter how capitalistic (read ravenously greedy) it appears, it’s really just a very ugly and sinister creature wrapped under a smiling mask.