Beijing Olympics

I hate totalitarian regimes...yes hate is a strong word but that's how I feel. It comes from my background I suppose having had grandparents, aunts and uncles and cousins living behind the Berlin wall and never being able to see them again once we left Germany.

I also hated seeing the way people were and still are living in Cuba and how afraid they were of their own shadows and always looking over their shoulder to see who was watching them.

This Olympics is reminiscent of Hitler's 1936 Summer Olympics but because it's China, well what the heck, mustn't offend. Never mind that they give us bad drugs, deadly pet food and toxic paint on our children's toys...oh let's not forget SARS. Did their totalitarian government cover that up and make it worse?

Well then there were the 1968 Mexico Olympics, another cock up in my view and let's not forget Russia in 1980. I was proud that Canada stood with other countries to boycott that one.

The Olympic slogan "one world - one dream" didn't mean much for Hitler when it came to black people, didn't mean much in Mexico either. The Russians, well they just wanted to own the world and the Chinese, well we all know how they feel about Tibet don't we.

Do they want to own the world too?

A Form Of Protest - You Think?

The U.S. cycling team arrived at the Beijing airport all wearing black respiratory masks. I would like to think this was a form of protest against China.

The Chinese are not taking it well calling it provocative especially since one of the cyclists competes indoors. I think the color black is very telling...

Tibetan Monks

In case anyone missed it Beijing Wide Open, a blogger I follow has a video clip of what happened today during a tightly controlled tour for western journalists. Pay her a visit and look at the video.

Do we boycott the Olympics? I read today that Nicolas Sarkozy (France) is the only world leader considering it.

Back to my knitting...