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This summer's Olympics won't
make a blind bit of difference to Chinese tyranny and it's naive
to think they will
GUY WALTERS
UK
Daily Mail
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Just over seven decades ago, thousands of athletes from all
over the globe were preparing to compete in the most controversial
sporting event of modern times - the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
They were determined to show that good sportsmanship would triumph
over tyranny and conflict.
In their naivety, the competitors thought that the lofty ideals
of the "Olympic spirit" would cause Hitler's three-year-old
regime to embrace the virtues of peace, non-discrimination and
freedom of expression.
How wrong they were.
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As everybody now knows, the Olympics gave the Nazis an enormous
propaganda coup.
Despite the four gold medals of Jesse Owens, the Germans were
able to hoodwink the world into believing that they were as civilised
a nation as any other.
As one U.S. journalist wrote on his return home, "this is
a nation happy and prosperous beyond belief - the Germans are
a wholly peaceful people who deserve the best the world can give
them."
The Olympian flag had been used to blinker the world to the brutal
excesses of a hateful regime. And now, history is all set to repeat
itself.
For today, we stand on the brink of an equally controversial
and, I believe, deeply misguided Olympic celebration.
In fewer than five months, our athletes will once more be playing
sports in a nation whose dictatorship is cruelly at odds with
the most fundamental freedoms that we in the West take for granted.
Yet again, we are being told that the Olympics will be a force
for good, and will help a totalitarian regime to adopt more liberal
policies. Such thinking is, at best, hopelessly naive and, at
worst, downright deluded.
Full
article here.
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