Chi-Coms Jail Thousands, Restrict Reporter Access

The Chinese Communists have rounded up political dissidents estimated to be in the thousands prior to this year's Olympic games. These persons have either been jailed or harassed into silence by the government.

In addition, foreign journalists who have traveled to the country to cover the Olympics have found that they are being denied access to hundreds of websites on the Internet.

This is life in modern Red China.

It is not much different than in the days prior to the Tienanmen Square incident where hundreds of brave Chinese students faced down the massive Red Army in an attempt to get the government to ease restrictions on human liberty.

But the Chi-Coms crushed the protests, resulting in the slaughter of innocent civilians and the imprisonment of others.

The Communist government to this day still persecutes and imprisons political dissidents, which prompted a popular CNN reporter recently to refer to the Chi-Coms as 'the same old gang of goons and thugs they've always been.'

Chinese government officials reportedly state that the reason for their purge of dissidents prior to the Olympics is to avoid the 'embarrassment' of having protests during the games.

It should be even more of an embarrassment for the Chi-Coms to know that the whole world has watched as they have proved once again that they are still totalitarians who hate human liberty.

Frankly, the Olympics this year are a joke. No one who values human life and liberty should feel compelled in the least to watch the display simply because 'they are the Olympics.'

I sure won't be watching.

Contrary to the words of President Bush, who stated that the games were 'nothing more than a sporting event,' meaning of course that politics should not play a role, the Chi-Coms have made sure that the event is all about politics...and their mode of operation to squelch free speech, free expression, political dissent, and Internet access for reporters.

What would the President do, for example, if in four years the Olympic Committee decided to go to Poland and hold the 'Auschwitz Skeleton Olympics?'

A massive swell of human rights protests would ensue all over the world, and rightly so.

And thus, how is going to Communist China to hold the Olympic games any different?

For more on this human rights fiasco, click HERE for a Washington Post special report. And click HERE for the complete Breitbart story on Internet restrictions for foreign journalists in China.

CHINA'S PRE-OLYMPICS HUMAN RIGHTS FIASCO

The Communist government of China has made no friends in its run-up to this year's highly publicized Olympic games which are to be held in the country.

In fact, the regime's human rights violations in the days leading up to the Games can be described as nothing less than a public relations fiasco.

First it was the regime's treatment of Tibetan monks. Now it is its treatment of political dissidents.

Reuters New Service is reporting that Chinese police have arrested Du Daobin, a prominent Internet dissident, for violating the terms of his probation.

Du had been arrested and imprisoned for posting online essays in support of fellow dissident Liu Di. Once convicted, Du was placed under house arrest and given a suspended sentence for 'subversion.'

But Du was placed under arrest once again this week after being charged with posting articles on overseas websites and receiving guests without permission.

In fact, an entire group of dissidents has been rounded up by the Chinese Communists prior to the Olympics. Their worst offense appears to be making statements critical of the Chinese government.

Yet most of the Chinese believe that hosting the Olympics will help 'improve their image around the world.'

Not with these human rights violations, it won't.