Wake Up: The Torch Gets Protection While Freedom Gets None

The Olympic torch had to be put on a bus for it's own safety. No, things are not going well for the torch relay that parades through various cities and countries before it lands in the host Olympic country. And when even the torch isn't safe, can this bode well for the actual Olympic games? I think not. It's going to be ugly in China at the Summer Olympics. No two ways about it. When it takes heavily armed police in boats, cars, on foot and on Rollerblades (Rollerblades?) just to protect a freakin' torch on the streets of Paris, what's going to happen in China?

And just why is it that the free world and everybody else decided to hold Olympic games in China? China, the enemy of freedom and democracy, the brutal repressor of it's own people, the occupier of Tibet. You remember now, that China. The China that used to be our enemy, Communist China, now Communist in name only. The China that was our enemy until Nixon decided to travel there to distract attention at home from Watergate. The China that Clinton sucked up to while throwing Taiwan under the bus. The China that makes most of the things we buy for our homes and ourselves. The China that is poisoning us with lead in it the products it sells us. The China that owns us economically. The China that will someday call in it's loans and make us change our name to the United States of China when we can't pay up. You know, that China. Why is it that they're getting the Olympic games?

The United States once upon a time at least pretended to be the protector of freedom and democracy. Now we no longer bother to keep up the pretense. Freedom and democracy only applies to global corporations and those who head them. Once upon a time American Business believed in a certain type of patriotism, the kind of patriotism that kept American businesses actually in America, not outsourcing jobs to the other side of the planet and allowing countries like China to build everything for us.

Didn't we fight a Cold War with the Soviet Union because they were an Evil Empire? Well, China is an Evil Empire. When does the new Cold War start? Oh, it won't. It won't because the American corporations are happy to do business with, and export jobs to, wherever it's easiest to make a buck that will go to the coffers of the captains of industry, while American workers are either unemployed or underemployed as baristas and burger flippers. Of course, those with college educations will do better, with higher paying jobs. Which they'll need to pay off the humongous loans they took out to get an overpriced college education.

Wake up. The time for revolution is now.