How About Calling It 'The Genocide Olympics?'
We’re always a bit skeptical when an actor decides to get serious, but one ought to take notice when the subject turns to genocide.
That’s what's going on in the Sudan as the world turns a blind eye to the so-far murder of 400,000 men, women and kids and the displacement of 2.5 million refugees whose villages have been put to the torch by their Chinese-financed government.
It’s happening right now, nonstop. Try to picture the horror for yourself, as it won't be on the Evening News.
So an especially large kudos goes out to Ronan the son and Mia the actor Farrow for having the chutzpah not merely to take up the cause, but to link the ongoing nightmare of Darfur with China and the upcoming Olympics in Beijing -- and to put the onus on U.S. sponsors, plus none other than Hollywood mogul Steven Spielberg, to do something about it.
Farrow and son know whereof they speak, each having visited this devastated region of North Africa numerous times. They make their case today on the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal: he as a Yale Law School student, she as an actor of considerable merit and professional standing.
The sponsors – Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola, General Electric and McDonald’s among them – for ignoring the Beijing-Khartoum linkage; and Mr. Spielberg, “who quietly visited Beijing this month to help stage the Olympic ceremonies.”
To the question: How do they ignore the fact that it’s Chinese oil money that’s bankrolling the Darfur genocide? – the world deserves an answer.
Fact: If President Omar Al-Bashir is the criminal and President Hu Jintao his accomplice in a conspiracy to ensure Chinese access to Sudanese oil, that makes “Schindler’s List” director and holocaust celebrity Spielberg -- and every 2008 sponsor -- this killer's willing enablers.
Another takeaway from the Farrow article is the revelation that among advocacy groups “there’s another slogan afoot. Rather than ‘One World, One Dream,’ people are beginning to speak of the coming ‘Genocide Olympics.’”
Now THAT is a marketing strategy. What’s your opinion?##
