Yeah, But I Don't Have To Watch

Would you to to a party at a guy's house if you were pretty sure he was beating his son and raping his daughter? Me neither. Some folks would say, "But you might be able to do some good while you're there, you know, convert him or something!"

The only way I'm buying that is if we go in with guns blazing, grab the kids, and kick the guy in the nuts on the way out.

Or, would you accept a five million dollar payout from a casino if they paid it to you in paychecks? If, instead of cash, they gave you the paychecks of the sorry schlubs whose brain chemistry is structured just right for their victimization? I can year the argument now, "But after you got the money, you could do so much good with it! You could feed the children of those poor bastards!" Right, and any moment Brittney Spears could open a day care for orphans. But I digress.

If we can see the idiocy of the previous examples then what in the hell are we doing in the Olympics in Bejing? China's record on human rights still isn't so good. It isn't enough that entire businesses like Hobby Lobby and much of Walmart thrive off the trinkets made in sweat shops; before the fourth of July holiday, news media reported the U.S. spent 187 million dollars on fireworks from China!

And for what? A few seconds of thrills?

Dara Tores, 41 year old mother, returns to the pool in the Olympic games. All totalled, she'll spend less than 10 minutes in the pool.

And for what? A few minutes of thrills?

This has gotten personal. Western news media will not receive permission to take cameras into all parts of China. Conditions for all Chinese will not be on our televisions. All we'll see are the happy few, strategically placed at the party by the guy who routinely beats his sons and rapes his daughters.

I can't cancel the party or keep folks from going, but I sure don't have to watch television coverage of the event, pretending that no one in the house is suffering.