God’s got a funny sense of humor with me – if I haven’t gotten the message, he continues to prod me by putting ‘happenstances’ in my life along the way… A few nights ago, my husband and I watched “Sand and Sorrow” on HBO (http://www.sandandsorrow.org/) and it another one of those prods…

What was the Cold War and Russia of my era will be my daughter's era with China… And if we’re not careful with this people, my prediction will come true…

Let me say right up front, I don’t believe it is the Chinese people themselves… From all the programs I’ve watched and the things I’ve read, there’s now two to three generations of Chinese people who have lived under the requiem – and have no other way to even think – any other way of thinking is so totally foreign, that if you took a switch and flipped on democracy overnight in China, it would be total chaos…

The massive years of living, thinking and breathing Communism for each of these generations is so ingrained now, it seems like the right thing to do and be… So I don’t fault the Chinese people themselves for I get the sense they simply don’t know there is any other way to be BUT communist…

You can easily push away this idea until you start to think about how integrated the Chinese economy is with ours… I’m STILL angry so many pets had to die because of the Chinese production of food products that were recalled… I’m still angry about the massive slaughtering of dogs because they won’t vaccinate against rabies there…

And when I think about the dog and cat fur trade and market in China, it still boils my brisket… The fact the Chinese Olympic officials moved the equine competitions away from Beijing because of the fear animal lovers would travel the two hours to the fur trade market to see for themselves, tells me all I need to know about this situation…

I do everything I can to NOT buy Chinese products, but it’s virtually impossible to do this… When given a choice, I buy anything BUT “Made in China” because I am so opposed to the mindsets of Red China…

And I am boycotting the Olympics – I don’t want it on the TV in my home, I don’t want to hear about it, I don’t want to read about it… PERIOD.

And then when you realize that a nation of Africans are in the midst of genocide caused by an Arab government kept in place because China is the major buyer of their oil, such as Darfur, I look at it all and say, “Why?”…

Why are we Americans buying from China and supporting their economy, when that country is manipulating another nation’s culture and economy like this?... Allowing another Rwanda in my own lifetime?... Didn’t everyone say “never again” with Rwanda?... What happened to our fortitude and commitment after the Holocaust and then there was Rwanda?... How many mass genocides do we need going on before we realize this is not humane, moral or the right thing to do in any form or fashion?

Did anyone read or hear about this piece from the 1/3/08 edition of the Washington Times?... I’ll quote part of it here…

“With the Beijing Olympics nearing, China is determined to ensure that unbroken harmony will prevail. The Associated Press, as reported in The Washington Times, reveals that "the Chinese government has created profiles on thousands of foreign journalists coming to report on the Beijing Olympics and is gathering information on thousands more to put into a database. The Politburo extends its pervasive domestic censorship to the world.

This policy statement from "a top official" is in context with China's intelligence services also having been "gathering information on foreign activist groups, aiming to head off protests and other political acts." Four days after the AP report, The Washington Post Foreign Service added that a leading "Chinese security official vowed ... to punish anyone who takes part in a political, religious or ethnic demonstration or protest 'in any form' " during the games.”  (Source: Beijing’s Blood Drenched Olympics - http://www.savedarfur.org/newsroom/clips/beijings_blood_drenched_olympics/)

So much for free speech and the spirit of the original Olympics!

And it’s estimated that the Chinese government will receive six BILLION dollars from the United State’s participation in the Olympics alone… Six billion dollars… All of the major funding for the massive improvements (which will stay there after the Olympics), which were paid for by U.S. corporations…

And exactly WHY are we doing all of this for Red China?... Can someone explain this to me?... Can someone explain to me why the Chinese government has chosen to not put safety measures in their mines, but prefer to simply pay $10,000 for each miner killed in a cave-in?... Or that they dump the byproducts of the tanning industry into the oceans without treating it?... Or that the world waits with horrible anticipation the bird flu pandemic will become a reality because of the Chinese?...

Yes, I’m afraid that Red China will be my daughter’s era of yet more atrocities and inhumanity toward one’s fellow man… “Never again” today is a meaningless phrase which so many died for…

As Always,

The Lady