I believe Ive answered that question above, Im happy to wait for the outcome of the investigation.
No, you've refused to engage.
She has
admitted that she was
fourteen.
You clearly have genuine ideological objections to the Olympics in general and to them being held in China in particular.
And you can't see why?
Ive not seen you post one positive thing about any athlete, perfomance or anything at all. Maybe I missed it if you have, because I have been avoiding threads where you have been at your most disruptive.
I'm sure the athletes train hard - I couldn't do it.
Whatever numerous objections you have to the Olympics, irrespective of whether I agree with you or not, your style of posting- the continual repetition, the strident language and above all the insane disruptive hectoring - makes me not want to read your posts.
So you don't read my posts and you don't engage.
The thing is, that the
real scandal about the olympics in China is exactly this level of disengagement by ordinary people around the globe, this suspension of disbelief.
The willingness to subscribe to the idea that a corrupt, money grubbing, corporate-sponsored, drug-addled athletic event that deliberately aids and abets the suppression of millions of poor people, should be supported because it involves maybe 12,000 athletes who have worked hard.
The awarding of the games and the cheerleading thereof is, at best, an aquiescence towards the CCP in it's
increasing suppression of freedoms in China and, worse, has given it a green light to continue with impunity.
And once the games are over, Melinda and yours and everyone elses attention has re-focussed on the next jamboree and you've all gone back to the rest of your lives .....
..... the
MILLIONS of people dispossed of their homes with inadequate (say 10% of value) or
NO compensation and the
hundreds, maybe thousands rounded up before the games and gaoled by the police for three years - no court, no judge, no process, no nothing - for being
SUSPECTED of, ummmmmm, well
thinking or writing something and few if any of them advocating anything more than a bit more fairness and openness
won't be going back to their normal lives.
And this was all done in the
name of the olympics, specifically in order to "showcase" China's supposed maturity and the CCP's willingness to embrace a new era of freedoms in China.
IMO, the hypocrisy on the part of anyone that purports to support the basic freedoms that most of us take for granted and is then involved in
any way with cheering-on of this event, or those directly involved, is breathtaking.
I find it distasteful in the extreme that people are prepared to place the harsh subjugation of the freedoms of the people of China in secondary consideration to the glorification of a few thousand, hard working, athletes - and that's
exactly what is happenning in reality.
On the ground, in reality, these games are responsible for creating a travesty of justice on an immense scale.
And
no athletics contest can justify that.
Woof
