Olympic hypocrisy

At the risk of upsetting some of my legion of readers by becoming 'political' (although if I was lampooning Americans would it be seen as such? I rather doubt it), I have been moved to say a bit after reading some prize herbert in the Independent gleefully announce he was cheering on all the Cuban Olympic athletes, but not the Americans. He is welcome to his prejudice, but Cuba is an interesting choice.

Now then, I well understand that it is everyone's right to dislike whoever they want(I have a few dislikes meself), but why do people who profess liberalism have such a love for totalitarianism, provided it is left wing? Remember the opprobrium heaped upon Pinochet? South Africa? Venture any criticism about Castro's Cuba and I can almost guarantee the response will be along the lines of : 'Cuba has more doctors and teachers per capita than anywhere else'. Really? Why is it that everything Castro says is taken at face value, and anything from the USA sneered at? Apparently, there have been 900+ assassination attempts on Castro. CIA must be losing their touch.

There is no free press in Cuba, no radio, no TV, trade unions are illegal, as is homosexuality. There is no freedom of association (public gatherings are outlawed unless organised by the state). Elections are derided as 'bourgeois'. The only women anywhere near power are the nubile youngsters who form Fidel's personal bodyguard.

One profession they do not have large numbers of is lawyers, because under a socialist system there is no need of them, as nobody is ever put on trial. 'counter- revolutionary elements' and 'enemies of the people' are locked up for decades in stinking prisons. Foreign travel is impossible. How many times have you heard some knobhead say 'x% of Americans haven't got a passport'? At least they have the option. 0% of Cubans do. The penalty for trying to leave is often death. Speak to a Cuban exile, and the response is similar to that of people in the Soviet Union who despaired at the 'useful idiots'(Lenin's description of them) in the West whose intellectual dishonesty made it easier for the communists to keep them enslaved.

Why do they persist with this political contortionism and moral equivalence? Partly, I suspect, because in their arrogance they can not admit to being wrong, which might explain why socialists want to control every aspect of your life, including your thoughts. An example of this is the demented leftie who says things like: 'how can an intelligent person like so-and-so hold such beliefs'?(usually meaning being a Tory, not hating Thatcher, or being religious). They, of course, are immune to such contagion, presumably because they are superior beings.

Strangely enough, their critical faculties are not applied to religions other than Christianity. Complaints about China hosting the Olympics focused on the occupation of Tibet (only been going on for 50 years) and the exiled Dalai Llama, who is treated with reverence as the Tibetans' 'spiritual leader'. This geezer was supposedly re-incarnated as a child as the 13th direct re-incarnation of the previous 12 children. This is never questioned. It is far more bonkersly incredible than any Western religion (imagine the hoots of derision if the Archbishop of Canterbury was described as our 'spiritual leader'). Why does no-one give a wibbly wobbly about Chinese oppression until some fruitcake in a tie-dye orange bedsheet turns up with the joss sticks?

The Peoples (lol) Republic (lol) of China, a human and environmental catastrophe, has been imprisoning, torturing and executing people by the boatload ever since Mao and his chums murdered their way to power. Mao is without question the biggest mass-murderer in history (he also violated hundreds of under-age girls. Mao's doctor once suggested the famously smelly dictator might visit the bathroom more often. Mao replied: 'I wash my prick in young girls' cunts'. Truly a man of the people).
Hitler was a Quaker by comparison: the only one to approach the Great Helmsman's tally is dear old Uncle Joe.

Yet, there exists, in Islington (natch), a restaurant called 'Mao's diner', with pictures of the evil brute all over the gaff. I would like to open an eaterie called Himmler's kitchen, with pictures of him looking ultra-swish in his S.S. uniform but something tells me the hypocrites of The Peoples Republic of Islington wouldn't like it.

Its a rum old world.