IOC looking stupid, again

Once again the IOC has shown they are totally clue-less about much of anything. Like all do-gooder-lefty types they are so arrogant as to believe they can change the world with talk, and rewarding evil.

Olympic chief Jacques Rogge said Saturday no deal had been cut with China to allow Internet censorship during the Games, as crowds swarmed parts of Beijing to glimpse a spectacular fireworks show.

With just six days to go before the Games, Rogge made his first public statement on the furore over the restrictions on Internet access for foreign reporters covering the Games, but stopped short of making an apology.

The IOC said that bringing the Olympics to China would help the Chinese people, it would get the Chinese Government to see the error of it’s ways — the few the liberals see, that is — , and it would be a free and unfettered event without issues or nastiness.

Activists jailed pre-Olympics

The Olympic Games have become the occasion for a broad crackdown against dissidents, gadflies and malcontents this summer. Although human rights activists say they have no accurate estimate of how many people have been imprisoned, they believe the figure to be in the thousands.

The crackdown comes seven years after the secretary general of the Beijing Olympic Bid Committee declared that staging the Games in the Chinese capital would “not only promote our economy but also enhance all social conditions, including education, health and human rights.”

Wrong! Again, they are wrong. Typical liberals, Kumbayah! and the world is saved. It doesn’t work that way, dummies.

“I am not going to make an apology for something that the IOC is not responsible for. We are not running the Internet in China,” Rogge said.

Funny that is not their usual attitude. Just more proof they are clue-less idiots.

It’s clear the IOC only went to China to stick their finger in the eye of the US; just as the did when the sent the Olympics to the USSR. Most people alive today do not remember when the IOC sent the Olympics to Berlin during the reign of Adolf Hitler.

In every case they told the world they were the champion of the oppressed, and they would make things better wherever they went. It didn’t turn out that way in ANY of the places UNTIL America — with the help of brave allies — stepped in and fixed the issues.

Ask for a pound, get an ounce

The brilliant negotiators at the IOC — that’s sarcasm — were able to get the Chinese to agree to open the Internet to the Chinese. Oh wait, no they didn’t.

They did however succeed in getting the to “open” the Internet to cause celebre sites like Amnesty International, liberal — and IOC — friendly sites like the BBC, and Deutsche Well. Both of the sites have carried news about China that the Chinese don’t like, but it’s been very tame and generally is not very deep.

No one is sure who will be able to access those sites, I am assuming those in the Olympic Village; unless they are Chinese or they are from countries smart enough to request blocking of their athletes connections. The “free and unfettered” access that was promised WHEN THE OLYMPICS WAS AWARDED TO THEM 8 YEARS AGO.

The issue had caused a major stir days before the start of the Aug. 8-24 Olympics with IOC officials insisting there would be no censorship and Beijing Games Organising Committee (BOCOG) saying sensitive sites would remain blocked by the Communist authorities.

Although Internet access will be relatively free for reporters for the period of the Games, it is still tightly controlled for the rest of the country.
Sites related to spiritual movement Falun Gong, and other issues that are frowned on, are regularly blocked. Some U.S. newspaper blogs were also blocked.

Yes, the IOC is as inept, and stupid as is the UN.

“We can only encourage moving towards that openness and transparency.”

That’s not what they said 8 years ago. Typical liberals, the reward those that hate America, and then spin-spin-spin their way out of the issue when they are shown to have been used by their benefactors.

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