2008 Beijing Olympic Games: we mustn’t be doubtful about the power of the international opinion on the decisions taken by the CCP and the 2008 Olympic's sponsors !
The Olympic Games should be a humanist celebration; see the Olympic Charter: “The aim of Olympics is to place sport in the service of mankind’s harmonious development, in order to promote a pacific society, anxious to preserve the human dignity”.
According to the Chinese government, this promotion doesn’t seem to have born the hoped fruit; Beijing’s authorities haven’t kept their promise of transparency and democracy made in 2001, when the town was chosen for the 2008 Olympic Games.
I propose to modify the above quotation: “The aim of Olympics is to place sport in the service of their sponsors’ economic development, in order to promote a totalitarian power, anxious to preserve the richness of the richest”.
The IOC, the sponsors of 2008 Beijing Olympics, their shareholders and governments are more sensitive to the sound of loose cash than to the yells of the Chinese tortured in the Chinese jails and of the oppressed and massacred Tibetans in their “autonomous” region, by the communist party. It’s a very short term political vision, cowardly and unconscious: we don’t participate in the world’s course by bowing our spine and this servile attitude will only make us harvest a deep contempt from the Chinese leaders. When are we going to have courageous and responsible politicians? On their side, by not listening to the Dalai Lama’s pacific propositions (see the five points Peace Plan, made 21 September 1987: Here or Here), the Chinese government sacrifice their country on the altar of the CCP’s paranoiac pride.
So, what are the 2008 Games in Beijing supposed to celebrate? The stake exceeds that of Beijing 2008: by giving our backing to those Olympic Games, we offer a signed blank paper to totalitarianism. In a worldwide climate of “everything is financial”, which is going to leave more and more people in the gutter, the Chinese capitalist-totalitarian power probably inspires more than one; especially if this power wears the prestige of the Olympic Games; is cleared.
If what’s currently happening in China can be cleared, what won’t be cleared in the future!
We can assimilate lots of totalitarian techniques to the capitalist system’s “basic pack”, because the freedom of expression, religion and opinion, for instance, are not essential.