JPF Home Page Forums General Messages Brian Austin Whitney Blog Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Hi Folks,

So I was watching the Olympics and like many was aware that the Chinese female gymnasts were cheating the rules by having athletes that were too young. I am not sure of the reason for the rule other than they say that the older they get, the more damage and abuse their bodies have taken and so youth is an advantage. In addition, they seem to have a program where kids are plucked (literally) from near baby-hood and whisked away to sports factories where they solely focus their lives on trying to reach the top. That's certainly as bad as any sweat shops out there, only in some ways it's worse because it's not being done for survival, but simply to make the host country look good. Sad.

So, everyone pretty much KNEW they were cheating, (all you really needed to do was look at them... if you've been around little kids, you know what they look like), but the Chinese government had created false passports to support the cheating. This is a very different kind of cheating that goes way beyond drug use. That usually is 1 athlete or perhaps 1 coach and 1 team, not the actual government of the country being in on the lie. But in an event where the Chinese are trying to show they are not the horrible and murderous regime that they have always been, this simply proves that nothing has really changed except they have better marketing and PR people right now. Evil is still evil. I feel very sorry for the Chinese people who are stuck with this brutal regime in charge. They have so many legitimate champions in their mix, this only calls ALL of them into question now. Why do I say that? Because if the government is willing to go so far to cheat for these gymnasts, why wouldn't they be willing to bribe judges (like those of Cuba who have made MANY questionable calls) with any sort of national level negotiations to offer in exchange? What would stop them from fixing the timing clocks or the judging software or fixing tiny aspects of the lanes on a track or other physical things (like the boats or the radios coaches use etc..) to win? The answer is, you'd be totally naive to think they aren't doing exactly that. Because they've proven themselves willing to cheat in the most heinous ways (by essentially robbing little girls of years of their life and often bribing their parents to force them to keep at it, like the parents did to the captain of the chinese team who forced her to stay in the program so they could get a house in exchange) we have to assume they've had scientists working on doping systems that can't be detected and that they've fixed the clocks and other things to win, or to keep their biggest opponents in the various events from winning.

Tonight, Bob Costas said they documents have surfaced proving that one of the Chinese girls is only 14. They may lose all but 2 of their bronze medals because of it. The sad part is that with the excellence of their team, they might have competed well or even won with their athletes that were actually old enough. So they kepts those people from honestly going for it and have brought utter shame to their entire country. Again, I hate ALL the cheaters, including those from the US. I rooted against 1 US athlete who had been banned for cheating because I can't trust her and think anyone caught intentionally cheating should be banned for life.

So the Chinese regime is exactly what it has always been. An oppressive propaganda machine used to keep their people down and a few in power. But of course they're joined by the Russians as well. Not in the Olympics, but in what they are doing in Georgia first and also by threatening to use NUKES against Poland because Poland is participating in the missile defense system and also asked for some weapons to defend themselves. Those weapons can't be used for OFFENSIVE war.. but that doesn't matter to the Russians.. they don't want Poland, which is the gateway to the rest of Europe, to be able to defend themselves from Russia should they decide to invade once again. Guess they're just as evil as ever as well.

In the face of these realities, the next US election really becomes a life or death issue. The trouble for me is that I am not sure that either major party candidate is up to the task. The US has lost ground in so many ways due to the last 2 administrations (Clinton and Bush) that we seem to be at a major crossroads and we need a great leader to get us out of the rut and back to where we can keept the threats of China and Russia at bay for the benefit not only of the US, but everyone else in the world as well. The Russians are wanting to go back to the good old days of the Soviet Union where they filled the gulags with the people from the satelite countries they raped and pillaged for resources and workers and the Chinese, who have slowly been buying up the US and gaining more and more economic control over us, are not to be trusted with anything even as minimal of using little underage girls to wage their propaganda war.

Very scary times indeed.

Brian