The Olympic Torch, Beijing Olympics and Police Brutality

by Michael Smith (Veshengro)

On Sunday, April 6, 2008, during the Olympic Torch relay that took place on the streets of London, England, we saw how much malign influence China has over the free West.

During this Torch Relay the brutality of the British Police, in this case primarily Metropolitan Police of the Capital, that we saw used again those few and in no way really violent protesters of the Free Tibet Movement was something akin to what we saw in the last decades of the last century when the Poll Tax riots were in full swing.

In addition to that the Olympic Torch was surrounded by a phalanx of young Chinese men in blue track suits which the BBC claimed, initially, to be Chinese Olympic athletes. Olympic athletes my foot. Anyone who believed that statement, I am sure, must also believe in the Easter Bunny and in the Tooth Fairy.

Mind you, by Tuesday, April 8, 2008, we were finally be told the truth and it was being openly admitted that whose were indeed personnel of the Chinese crack anti-terrorist commandos, in other words, agents of the Chinese security apparatus. They too did their share of the beating of protesters, it would seem, and especially in France.

The question that we all must ask of our governments, whether here in the UK or across the Channel in France, is why thugs of the Chinese security apparatus were permitted to act as guardians of the Olympic Torch here on the streets of both the British and the French capital cities?

In their attempt to stop protesters reaching the torch and especially this was the case in Paris, it would appear, where together with the CRS and others units of the French Gendarmerie many of the protesters, according to pictures seem, were beaten bloody, with one protester bleeding profusely from his mouth, for instance.

The police and security personnel tried to stop filming of such brutality, even to the extent of gloved hands of CRS personnel attempting to cover up the lenses of camera crews.

Why, why is the “free” West allowing this to happen? This has nothing to do with upholding the Spirit of the Olympics and the Torch to pass freely but it has everything to do with communist Chinese influence.

Britain, once the bastion of liberty in the enlightenment and France, the country of “liberte, egalite et fraternite”, both showed where they stand. Business interests are put before the interests of the people, at home and abroad, and especially here in countries where they are being oppressed.

It is a shame that we cannot even call for a boycott of Chinese made goods, for instance, as we would then have, literally, nothing that we could buy anymore, bar a few small exceptions. Even the parts of the very computer, for instance, on which this article has been written are “Made in China”.

© M Smith (Veshengro) & Tatchipen Media, April 2008