Even as the drama of the Olympics Torch Relay plays out, several interesting side acts have taken place that display the ruthlessness as well as the buffoonery of the Communist Party in China.
Since the communist regime won the chance to host the Olympics in China in 2001 after making a promise to improve its record on human rights, it had a fair chance to change and really make friends with its own citizens and people all around the world.
Instead, it failed to fulfill its promise and stepped up its persecution of oppressed groups.
This shows that China's true shame is the Chinese Communist Party. The Party's culture—a culture of hatred and suppression—was put into place when the Party came into power.
If not for such a Party Culture, who would oppose the Olympic Games in China? Who would protest the torch relay around the world if the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) were not in power?
The Flames of the Protests
The CCP's heavy-handed approach to suppressing the Tibetan protests and its links to the genocidal regime in Sudan and the oppressive regime in Zimbabwe have irked people all over the world, even in conservative nations like India and Japan. The CCP's record resulted in the torch being extinguished in Paris and rerouted in San Francisco.
Having seen its heavy-handed approach fail, the Chinese Communist regime reacted in the way it usually does—like a bully who loses his temper and does not think.
In doing so, and by intimidating Westerners as well its own people, the CCP has shown that it is really a "bunch of goons" as CNN's Jack Cafferty rightly put it.
Wising up to the fact that the torch relay would continue to meet with protests, the overseas to counter the opposition to its rule. In San Francisco, Chinese students were told to gather en masse at the protest sites to disrupt protesters.
In Australia, the CCP's organization was even more effective and clearly visible for all to see—huge battalions of Chinese students stood waving identical red Communist flags, outnumbering the protesters. A similar situation happened in Japan, and will probably continue in other countries where the torch is set to go.
Protests Against Westerners
In addition, the CCP used nationalist sentiments to push its case against "Westerners." Blogs and forums began to be filled with vicious curses of Tibetans, calling them people who "deserved to be killed."
The CCP also started a massive media campaign in China that began after the torch was extinguished in Paris. Having built up enough hate, massive rallies were then held across China to boycott the French retailer Carrefour and other French products.
The simultaneous and frivolous lawsuits filed against CNN in China and New York for Cafferty's "a bunch of goons" remark is a knee-jerk reaction that has elicited nothing more than laughter in the Western countries.
In New York City, one Chinese student wrote a highly critical and faulty opinion piece about Tibet in Columbia University's college newspaper, which was later retracted for containing false information and triggering an uproar.
Intimidating Fellow Chinese
But the intimidation and threats are not restricted to Westerners or Western companies. In fact, the hatred has been more vicious towards Chinese people who have expressed different opinions.
Duke University student Grace Wang, who tried to mediate between pro-Tibet and Chinese students, was abused verbally at a rally and denounced as a "traitor" to the country. Her parents in China have had to flee home.
Reports indicate that Grace has hired a lawyer to take action action against the Duke University Chinese Students and Scholars Association for their role in the intimidation.
Way to go, girl.
A paraplegic Chinese woman who carried the torch in London became a media celebrity in China. However, just a few days later, she was denounced for saying that the protests against French retailer Carrefour would mainly harm Chinese people.
CCP Behind the Scenes
In all these instances, the dark hands of the CCP have been carefully orchestrating and building up hatred.
How long can such hatred continue? How long can the CCP fool the Chinese people and people around the world?
From the Tibet suppression to orchestrating the anti-Carrefour campaigns and stirring up hatred against the West, to threatening and intimidating its own Chinese people for speaking out a little bit, the CCP has managed to instigate hatred for the flimsiest of excuses.
The world does not oppose the Olympic Games in China, contrary to what the CCP presents. What the world opposes is seeing a brutal dictatorship go unchallenged in claiming legitimacy to a power that does not belong to it.
One day, the Chinese people will wake up and realize that the CCP has been fooling them all along. They will realize that the CCP is the true obstacle to the "One World, One Dream" slogan of the Olympics. Hopefully, that will happen sooner rather than later.
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