Olympics and China

Have you been watching the Olympics?   These games have the lowest rating of any previous broadcast in recent years.  I wonder why?  I think Americans are fed up with China and their communist buddies across the world. 

The Olympics use to be about the spirit of the athletes and the country they represent.  The focus was on excellence…. being faster, highest and strongest in the world competition. Also there was the Olympian values of excellence, respect, and friendship that spoke of lifelong bonds forged in honest competition on level playing fields.  No longer.

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is more about promoting the Chinese Communist agenda than about nurturing the athletes.  They stifle the games by policing the Olympians’ every move, all to impress on them that they all are under a cloud of suspicion where a misstep could lead to banishment from the Games or worse.

Didn’t I hear Nancy Pelosi warn the athletes to take care and not upset things with their behavior?  In other words……take care because we can’t bail you out!!

According to the Epoch Times, the Chinese government has access to the athletes’ sensitive historical data along with real time activities, such as the athletes’ voice audio and file transfers.  The app that supplies this information includes reporting any sensitive political information transmitted by the athletes.

The Chinese government is unabashedly frank in explaining the need for this surveillance since they know how many thousands are trying to escape the totalitarian life. They will always be evaluating the conduct of athletes.  “Any behavior or speech that is against the Olympic spirit, especially against the Chinese laws and regulations, are also subject to certain punishment.”    

Even if athletes perfectly censor themselves and take care to talk of nothing in any way controversial, they know that the government may decide to invent infractions or punish athletes or their countries, as an example for all the others as the consequences of stepping out of line. The walls have ears!!!

Even if the athletes who survive the surveillance, and who haven’t been taken off the playing field by China’s gaming rules, can then participate in their respective sports.  However, none of the athletes’ own countrymen will be sitting in the stands, waving their national flags to spur them on.  The spectators in the stands will all be handpicked by the Chinese Communist Party –a final testament to who in in charge of these activities and that they have complete control of these games.

            So why did we attend anyway?