Columnist – John Sammon
Records are being set every day by steroid pill popping swimmers. Go ahead. Puff yourself up and feel proud. The pool is better than athletes had fifty years ago, the water treated chemically better, the swim suit designed better, the steroids are better, genetically engineered food is better.

You’re twice as big because of the steroids.

But you set a new record. Oh boy. Strut around. You’re better!

Meanwhile, the Chinese, a fascist dictatorship that is sort of also capitalist, puts on a showcase glorifying their country. Much like the 1936 Nazi Games in Berlin, the regime in Peking (I refuse to call it Beijing), has hidden away its torture victims and slaves being held without trial.

We love the Chinese. We equip them and trade with them and supply them. Bush, who yesterday warned the Russians not to attack US supplied Georgia (Gee, the US is the only country allowed to attack anyone), goes to China for a photo op and to act the big guy. This is the only thing he’s managed to do successfully, visit China. He’s only got six months left of the most disastrous presidential administration since Warren G. Harding.

Why does Bush love the Chinese?

They torture helpless people in jails.

They conquered and enslaved Tibet.

They massacred thousands during the Tiananmen Square riots.

They cut up executed prisoners and sell the body parts over the Internet.

It’s because they’re acting more like us (US). They have a McDonald’s in Peking. They don’t act crazy like Mao used to with those little red (Communist) books and Mao jackets and riding bicycles everywhere.

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Now they drive cars. We can understand that.

They’re just like us. Or maybe, it’s that we’ve become more like them.

We hold prisoners without trial.

We set up camps to hold them.

We attack other countries without warning because we’re in the right. I’ve got both a McDonald’s and a Chinese restaurant in my neighborhood.

Like the 1936 Olympic Games, when the Germans won the most Gold Medals, the Chinese are winning them left and right. Now am I naïve, or should I assume that a country that has continually demonstrated a total ruthless disregard for human rights might have an overwhelming urge to cheat to win to make their country look good?

The screams of their victims have been muffled until the Games are over.

We should limit the Games to only those countries who are honest, Switzerland and Nepal.

We won’t attack the Chinese anyway because we’re afraid of them. We only attack small impoverished countries that don’t have an air force or a navy. And like the Olympic athlete whose victory was made possible by super vitamins, we strut around after we beat the small impoverished country, proud of ourselves as being real tough.

We also depend on their (China’s) tortured prisoners to make our blue jeans. The slave Chinese prisoner makes the jean and is paid nothing and fed a bowl of maggot-infested gruel. The jean is then shipped over here and you buy it at Wal Mart for $99.95.

Sound fair?

All’s fair in geopolitics and the Olympic Games.

The Games should be disbanded because of terminal hypocrisy.