My clout is mainly missing because I don't have the fucking time to write all the fucking time. But that's another story...
Anyway, the cold wind should blow again, and for this time I've chosen the topic of the Beijing Olympics. Why? Because I'm sitting in the fucking airport lounge in Hong Kong, returning from a business trip from China to the not-fucking-Sweden neutral country I live in.
This is where I was (well, at least this is what I looked at at one point during my journey, and I happened to have my camera in my hand.) If you can guess the location, I'll give you a cookie.
Alright, there's a guy (actually there are many guys and girls), running around the world with a torch, and for the simple reason to "light a fire" somewhere else, during a frenetic opening ceremony which will probably show tons of people wearing ribbons around their wrists or other favorite body parts.
Why will they do that? Because they will be protesting the human rights violations that are happening in Tibet.
Righty-ho. I'm not disputing that such things are happening in Tibet. I'm not disputing the fact that the violation of human rights (unless it's me doing it) is condemnable and abominable. I'm not saying, we should all forget about Tibet, because it's got no oil anyway.
But here's a thought for all you protesters, all you whiners, whingers, and world-improvers:
- Don't buy computers from HP, and Dell! Don't eat burgers, steaks and fast food! They come from the US, and the US got fucking Gitmo, where they're violating human rights every day!
- Don't drink champagne, even if you're celebrating your petty little world-improvements, because France dropped atom bombs in the Mururoa atols!
- Don't eat Sushi, because the Japanese committed horrific war crimes during WW2!
- Don't play football, because (and they claim that, not me!) the Brits invented it, and they did horrible things to the blacks in Zimbawe (even before they started slashing their own wrists down there)!
- Don't eat pizza or pasta - the Italians were all Fascists in WW2!
- Stop smoking fucking Afghan weed - the Taliban wrecked that country!
- Stop driving your 2CVs or Ford Pintos! The fuel they use comes from bloody Saudi Arabia, Iran or - gasp! - Sweden! (So, stop screwing Swedish chicks, too!)
- Oh yeah - boycott the Olympics 2008 in Bejing. BUT: then also stop drinking tea, eating rice or quote fucking Confuzius!
Be fucking consistent, you would-be-Albert-Schweitzers!!!
If you want to help the Dalai Lama, spread his word, don't resort to violence! Oh, yes - and one more thing: do grow up and get a fucking life.
Our Chinese colleagues in this world are humans, too!
