Olympic Torture

Sometimes we have friends that help us out. Sometimes we have friends who embarrass us. This time we have friends that are rivaling the occupied White House in barbarity.

China is getting ready for the games. It can't guarantee clean air, but it's giving new meaning to the adage that 'heads will roll'. A plot to disrupt the Olympics is supposed to have been detected, so it executed some of the purported plotters.

CHINA has reverted to public executions on the eve of the Olympics as part of a massive security operation mounted to protect the Beijing Games from what Communist Party authorities describe as an urgent threat of violence and anti-government protest.

The Washington Post reported at the weekend that three young men were shot shortly after dawn in the city of Yengishahar in Xinjiang - the mainly Muslim region of northwestern China.

"The local government bused several thousand students and office workers into a public square and lined them up in front of a vocational school," the Post reported. "As the spectators watched, witnesses said, three prisoners were brought out.

"Then an execution squad fired rifles at the three point-blank, killing them on the spot."

The men were among 17 people convicted in nearby Kashgar of being members of the outlawed East Turkestan Islamic Movement.

The cretin in chief will fit right in at those opening ceremonies. Next we'll be hearing of rendition as the new event, perhaps, a propos memos from Prof. Yoo and trials to be held at Gitmo. The Torture Olympics it is.

I expect the White House will have No Comment on these preparatory events as it plows new depths in conduct of foreign affairs as well as in conduct, generally.