The 2008 Olympics - Not Beijing Time For Bonzo by Doug Wrenn

The 2008 Olympics - Not Beijing Time For Bonzo

By Doug Wrenn

April 14, 2008

I recently took a long, cold shower, threw back a couple stiff drinks, and even tried pinching myself repeatedly, but all to no avail. Much to my shock, ultimate terror and chagrin, I still actually found myself agreeing with Hillary. (SOMEBODY, PLEASE HELP ME!) Still, it occurred to me, President Bush belongs at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing about as much as Hillary's horny hubby belongs in a cigar store, picking out a Valentine's Day gift for the interning White House bimbo du'jour.

Last night I caught host, Raymond Arroyo interviewing President Bush on EWTN's "On The World Over." Arroyo asked Bonzo why he intends to attend the Olympics in Beijing, considering China's deplorable human rights record. Bonzo replied that he has (supposedly) been talking to China about its human rights violations since he took office, and he doesn't need the Olympics as an excuse to do it, so he's going. Yup, that's about the gist of it. That's the kind of reasoning that's too shallow to fill a thimble, but plenty putrid enough to appropriately find a longstanding and comfortable home in an Emesis basin.

As long as I mentioned the Catholic Eternal Word Television Network, please just allow me one brief Catholic elaboration, specifically, item # 1868 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church under the heading of "Proliferation Of Sin":

"Sin is a personal act. Moreover, we have a responsibility for the sins committed by others when we cooperate in them:

-by participating directly and voluntarily in them

-by ordering, advising, praising or approving of them

-by not disclosing or not hindering them when we have an obligation to do so

-by protecting evil-doers"

I am in no way advocating national Catholic theocracy here, but when you boil down many, if not most, mainstream religious precepts, they are inherently moral and often simply common sense, even if you remove the religious component from them. In Church law, somebody who knowingly and willfully gives a woman a ride to an abortion clinic is just as sinful as the knowing and willful getaway driver of a bank robber is guilty in secular criminal law. Both are accomplices. Likewise, that is why a handful of our more courageous and moral Catholic bishops (and they do sadly seem to be in the minority) have made headlines by saying they would deny giving Holy Communion to Catholic politicians who publicly advocate abortion, and why some bishops also refuse to share a stage at public events with others who also promote anti-life/anti-family issues, because they're accompaniment is equivalent to public approval of the agenda of these people.

It is not enough that Bonzo has (supposedly) been lecturing China about its appalling human rights record. Talk is cheap. Let him put his money, so to speak, where his mouth (supposedly) is. In other words, if he has been so verbally tough on China, and yes, I seriously have my doubts in that regard, then let him back up his talk with definitive action. But alas, that is where the rubber sadly leaves the road.

Bonzo backed down from the Chi-Coms over the downing of our EP 3 plane on Hainan Island in April of 2001. A few years later, when coddling to the Chi-Coms, he aimed some pretty fiery and contradictory rhetoric at our endangered ally, Taiwan. Meanwhile, we are into the Chi-Coms for hundreds of billions of dollars in a trade deficit that they use to rapidly build their military, inevitably against us in the not too distant future. We tolerate China's countless acts of espionage, cyber hacking and trade violations, including dumping tainted and harmful products into our markets, the sabotage of one of our satellites and the stealth pursuit and surveillance of one of our aircraft carriers, and then we reward them with guided tours of our universities, laboratories and military installations. We heard more from Barack Obama's recent humiliating bowling game on the hustings than from the Oval Office regarding the recent atrocities foisted upon Tibet by the Chi-Coms. As Bonzo can defy an aging dictator on a tropical island with little to offer us other than sugar and cigars, or little to intimidate us, other than another boatlift of pathetic refugees off the Florida coast, or maybe a call to its big Russian brother with its obsolete military armaments, he can also swagger at pounding some third world, seventh century Islamo-Facists terrorists into the sand with hardly breaking a sweat. Yet when confronted by Vladimir Putin, the steely-eyed mutant, who is the textbook illustration that while you can take the comrade out of the KGB, you can never take the KGB out of the comrade, he looks into his eyes, gushes, coos, and sees his soul. Up against the Chi-Coms, who already now command the Panama Canal via a puppet proxy and have made, and are profiting from, significant inroads into our shipping ports, he speaks of "free trade," which is an oxymoron for uneven trade practices that puts the US in the back seat. These are not the markings of a leader of steel, but rather, a coward of convenience.

It's not exactly like Hillary Clinton has the market cornered on morality. In fact, as former First Lady, a position of awesome vision, purview, and responsibility, as she would like us to believe, she didn't bat a lash when Bill gave the Chi-Coms an open pass to our electoral process and nuclear weapons research. Obviously, she's pandering to the drooling, clueless, mouth-breathing lemmings of the left side of our electorate, who only catch her sound bites during commercial breaks of sports telecasts or "American Idol," but she's right in what she is saying, despite her underhanded motives. I also wholeheartedly embrace every protest that has thus far taken place in several major cities around the globe in which the now tainted Olympic torch has passed, although, unlike some of those protesters, I draw the line at physical violence. The attacks on the carriers of the torch were unconscionable, and only sadly detracted from an otherwise righteous and noble protest.

Bonzo isn't so elite. His strings, including some also attached to our country at large, are being pulled by the globalist, anti-American, anti-sovereignty, shadowy yet powerful Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and the Trilateral Commission, each of which has many members who are high ranking government elected and appointed officials, past and present, of both parties, as well as many influential and recognizable corporate giants and well known press and media members. The placation of China with a wink and a nod is nothing new. Consider what author, James Perloff, in the 2005 reprinting of his 1988 book, "The Shadows Of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations And The American Decline" observed in Chapter 14, page 207:

"With little exception, American policy has conformed to this blueprint ever since the New Deal. A good illustration is our China policy, which has brought us toward rapprochement with Chinese Communists as swiftly as the American people could be persuaded to allow it. Every President since FDR has had a part in this continuum.

-Roosevelt: ceded Manchurian ports to Stalin during World War II, and agreed to equip the Soviets' expansion into China, where they armed Mao Tse-tung's revolutionaries.

-Truman: through his proxy, George Marshall, permitted the fall of China by truce negotiations, a weapons embargo against the Nationalists, and the obstruction of Congressionally mandated military aid.

-Eisenhower: forced Taiwan to relinquish the Tachen Islands to Peking, and interceded to prevent Chiang Kai-shek from invading the mainland in 1955.

-Kennedy: also prevented China from invading the mainland, in 1962-when it was in turmoil and ripe for overthrow.

-Johnson: terminated economic aid to Taiwan.

-Nixon-visited China, breaking the ice with the Communists.

-Ford: presided over the withdrawal of most of the US troops from Taiwan, and visited the mainland.

-Carter: broke relations with Taiwan; recognized Peking.

-Reagan: proliferated trade with Red China, and promised reduced arm sales to Taiwan.

Step by step, our China policy, like our broad foreign policy, has followed an essentially unwavering course. It matters little which party occupies the White House. Anyone can see that when the "conservative" Richard Nixon went to Peking, he was paving the way for the "liberal" Jimmy Carter to recognize it."

I would only add, let us also not forget perks from the US to the Chi-Coms, such as "Most Favored Nation" status, and "Permanent Normal Trade Relations." Follow the money, folks.

After interviewing Bonzo, Arroyo also interviewed conservative radio pundit and Catholic-convert, Laura Ingraham, who cited that currently 500,000 people are being held in so-called "re-education training camps" in China. Ingraham has also been calling for Bonzo to boycott the Olympic event to stand up to the Chi-Coms, also citing that during the 1936 Olympics in Germany, the ovens that later incinerated many Jews during the Holocaust were actually being manufactured.

Those who point a finger and cry, "Politics!" should consider that while the Olympic games symbolize peaceful athletic competition to join countries around the world together in theoretical harmony and good will, there is no joining, no should there ever be, with those promulgating genocide and human rights atrocities. When the athletes play their games in China, Christians and dissidents to Communism languish, some of which for "crimes" as "atrocious" a being caught possessing a Bible. Maybe I'm missing something here, but is that what we call "sportsmanship?"

Back in the days when more people actually cared, an adult might chide a foul-mouthed youth by asking him, "Is that the same mouth you use to kiss your mother?" In the same kind of way, I very restlessly bristle at the thought of our President greeting Pope Benedict XVI on an airport tarmac in a few days also being the same President who will go pay homage instead of umbrage to the Butchers of Beijing as if his shoes are free of pebbles. I believe the Chinese call this inane façade, "Look- see pigeon!" Was Tiananmen Square really all that long ago?

Suddenly, a famous and quintessentially sarcastic, but equally insightful quotation of Mark Twain suddenly comes to mind: "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

Suppose, just suppose, that President Bush, in fact, really is a true leader. And suppose that he still goes to Beijing for the 2008 Olympics while sporting that typical, goofy, Dubya-trademark, happy-go-lucky, "Nobody's Home" grin on his face.

But I contradict myself.