Good News, Bad News: The Chinese Communists Hate Their Citizenry (Sorta Like US Big Banks and the Fed)

The bad news is that, even in the face of all this International presence and pressure, the Chinese Communists have the gall to do this type of exclusionary crap (notice a recurring theme of parallel between my rants about Chinese communists and those about the Fed and the big banks and the Republicans and Democrats here...like today's exclusionary term?):

The huge red gates of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing were closed yesterday - access was denied, except to those who had not merely Olympic accreditation but a special accreditation on top of that. Heaven itself probably works on a similar basis...

China's zest for the Games is not in doubt. Nor is the efficiency of the operation the country has put together. But the small incident at the Temple of Heaven - admittedly involving just a few tens of thousands, a tiny fraction of China's population of 1.3bn - was a sign that the magnificent welcome China is giving the international elite is not a reliable guide to the treatment of the ordinary Chinese.

The very good news is that we, the International presence and pressure, are aware of their lies, games, and human rights transgressions. And this is exactly how long-term virtuous changes happen.