It is hard to believe we keep getting new people pitching this rubbish. Where have they been living and what have they been reading that they are so frighteningly uninformed?
Not that it has anything to do with the Olympics, but Phil Hall insists on starting with them, so let’s dispose of Spielberg and Farrow.
Spielberg and Farrow are foolish people who don't even understand what they are doing.
Darfur is an ugly civil war, not a genocide, as the US and Israel insist on calling it because they don't like the Muslim government.
Nothing shows better Farrow's silliness than her trying to exploit the 1936 Olympics as a model. That Olympics proves exactly the opposite of what she claims.
Its great hero, a genuinely historic figure, was Jesse Owens. Hitler wouldn't even shake hands with the man who demonstrated to the world the false notions of Nazi ideology.
America's boycott of the Moscow Olympics and Russia's tit-for-tat boycott of the Los Angeles Olympics achieved nothing.
A generation of athletes were either deprived of being in an Olympics or got medals generally regarded as second-rate.
But more importantly, what has happened in Darfur has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with China. China has been at war with no one for more than half a century.
If you are genuinely concerned about death and human misery, you must look somewhere else, somewhere where the insincerity of people like Phil Hall does not let them look.
The world's greatest arms merchant, supplying the means to kill and maim in every corner of the earth, is America.
The world's most militaristic country is the United States, spending more on the science of death than the entire rest of the planet combined.
The world's most belligerent state, hands down, is the United States.
It remains involved in two bloody wars and threatens more. It has killed somewhere between half a million and a million people in Iraq. It has made an economic chaos of the place, setting back the one Arab country that was on the cusp of becoming an advanced society.
In the last few decades, it has attacked or overthrown many governments posing no threat to it, including a number of democratic regimes. The torture and murder of Pinochet was an American responsibility.
The greatest bloodbath in modern history was Vietnam, a pointless war that killed three million souls for nothing other than disagreeing with American policy. It was the greatest holocaust since Hitler’s.
America supports the seemingly endless bloody excesses of Israel, never using its influence to stop the institutionalized brutality we see there.
As to putting down civil unrest at home, I suggest Phil Hall Google “Detroit 1967” to find images of troops in the streets of Detroit, troops that killed the best part of 50 people. Or he could Google “Waco and FBI” for images of Abrams tanks being used against a settlement of kooks, the best part of a hundred of whom ended up incinerated. Try “Los Angeles and National Guard” for more images of soldiers shooting people in the streets during the term of Bush’s father. Check the Amnesty International report on the brutality of American police forces. Oh, there are so many more, but these give you the idea.
By comparison, China is one of the most peaceful nations on earth.
