Let's get one thing straight. The Chinese people, whether
they appear happy or sad, support their government because they're
controlled. After generations of being beaten down, the population bows
the head and bends the knee to slave masters.
Call that freedom if you want to.
And if you really believe the situation in America is no better than the
system in China, even with the amount of censorship alive and well in
America, even with the rigging of this economy, try an experiment. Move
to China and start publishing articles relentlessly
critical of the government there. See what happens. Be sure to leave a
copy of your last Will and Testament at home.
When the NBA commissioner and several players talk about loving their
Chinese fans, they're referring to victims of long-term terrorism. And
if you press the NBA people on that point, they say, "We just want to
play basketball, we just want the games."
And they want the money. The Nike money, the Chinese money, the
television money, the other merchandise money. More Chinese people than
Americans watch the NBA playoffs on TV.
When, in a momentary fit of sanity, the General Manager of the Houston
Rockets, Daryl Morey, retweeted FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, STAND WITH HONG KONG,
the Chinese government launched a shit storm. Blacked out pre-season
games, canceled press conferences, attacked
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver for (partially and weakly) defending free
speech. Now, calls are going out for Daryl Morey to resign from his
job, to appease the Chinese government.
The big fear? A few global NBA stars would decide to step up and defend
the million Hong Kong protestors, who want to knock down a bill that
would allow China to extradite "criminal suspects" from Hong Kong to the
mainland, where they can be charged, imprisoned,
tortured, murdered. Those number one Hong Kong suspects would be
persons who oppose the mainland Chinese regime.
The NBA stars, speaking out, could ignite a worldwide conflagration of public outrage aimed at the brutal government of China.
So far, that fear is unfounded. Social justice warriors LeBron James,
(coaches) Steve Kerr and Gregg Popovich are silent on the specific issue
of Hong Kong vs. China. No one connected to the NBA is addressing it.
We have what George Washington warned about: an entangling foreign alliance. The US, China, money.
You have to wonder at the curious timing of all this now. The Chinese
government, seizing on one little tweet, blows sky high, just when NBA
players, coaches, and the commissioner happen to be in China on a good
will money-pumping tour. It's as if the Chinese
government wanted an excuse to attack the US, because Trump has been
stirring the pot on US-China trade relations. Obliquely, the Communist
dictatorship wants to demonstrate how far they'll go to crack down
against any outside criticism, and against readjustment
of trade that currently favors China. Grossly favors China. (We'll
see just how good or bad the new Trump trade deal with China is.)
Who is in charge of keeping NBA players in a state of silence and
compliance with the wishes of the Chinese leadership? The NBA, yes.
But more importantly, the shoe companies. Nike, Adidas. They have
enormous business in China. Mustn't disturb THAT. Every
famous NBA player has a big $$ shoe deal. Mustn't endanger THAT money,
either. So shut up. Play ball. Stay ignorant of politics.
Entangling alliances.
The Chinese leadership is, in effect, daring the NBA to cut ties with China and lose billions.
"If your balls are made of money, we have you by the balls."
Why did the Rockefellers want to open up China trade with the West those
many years ago? Why not, say, populous India instead? After all,
India had some budding semblance of a representative government.
Contrasted against China, India was Thomas Paine.
The Rockefellers favored China because they LIKED China's system.
Massive top-down control. Absolute censorship. Violent repression.
Mind control. Thus, a way to own and direct huge numbers of people and
pacify them through fear and terror. Decade after
decade. A GOOD MODEL FOR THE WORLD.
An American friend described an incident he witnessed years ago when he
was sitting on a tour bus in China. He and his buddy were the only
Americans on board. An argument broke out between two Chinese tour
guides at the front of the bus. At that moment,
all the Chinese passengers bowed their heads and stared at the floor.
This was their reflex reaction to a dispute between two low-level
officials.
So you can imagine their responses to leadership at the top. Total submission.
These are the NBA fans who have a love affair with US players. And vice versa.
Orwell, 1984: "But it was all right, everything was all right, the
struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big
Brother."
Orwell: "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."
Or perhaps a shoe, manufactured by Nike, in China.
Suppose MANY customers of Nike stop buying their shoes.
Suppose MANY NBA fans stop going to the games.
Suppose MANY viewers stop watching the games on TV.
Suppose MANY more social media users relentlessly spread messages
supporting the Hong Kong protestors and exposing the brutal Chinese
regime.
Suppose independent researchers begin publishing lists of products made
in China and bought in the US, so consumers can avoid them.
Suppose many more people wake up to the fact that the economic glue that
holds Globalism together is insane---domestic manufacturers abandon
their home country and set up shop in places (like China) where they
make their products far more cheaply; where wages
are very low and environmental concerns are nil; and then, export those
products for sale back home, thereby putting competing domestic
companies out of business. Suppose many more people come to see this as
economic suicide. Suppose they see Globalism itself
as planned suicide. Planned to raise up certain countries ruled by
brutal dictators, and sink other countries where some semblance of
freedom still exists. And suppose they see this plan as a strategy for
bringing about planet-wide repression under any label
you care to use, but turns out to be Rule by Giant Corporations and
Banks Colluding with Governments over All of Earth. No exceptions
permitted.
And suppose the 7.7 billion targets of this plan realize they're all the real Deplorables, and consequently say NO.
With the many avenues of communication available to us, that could be a tidal wave of NO.
If you want to dig still further down, into the basics of economics,
consider: relatively free markets can only function within a context
where the playing field is level for competitors---the costs of
manufacturing, marketing, and selling products are the
same for everyone. Once you permit the massive import of goods from
places where those costs are radically lower,
you are rigging the game. The home country suffers. Companies
shut down. Workers have no jobs. The general level of prosperity,
whatever it was, keeps decaying. No matter how you slant and massage
the numbers, no matter how many cockeyed theories
you spawn, the outcome is unavoidable.
Compound this engineered tragedy by permitting those massive imports to
come from a country where the citizens are rigidly controlled by a
criminal regime; enter into a huge number of economic agreements with
that regime; turn a blind eye to what that regime
has been doing to its people; and you have a sacrifice of freedom on
all fronts.
Then there is a chokehold. And then, on any occasion, for any reason, the brutal regime will issue a command:
Don't dare criticize us;
We're in this together;
We have no principles and neither do you.
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