For all the carping coming from the Western news media "rat pack" covering the Beijing Olympics, the common thread is their reporting about these "no fun" Olympics, and the omnipresent Chinese security blanketing Beijing. The Americans vicious "pit bull" reporters are livid over alleged overzealous, omnipresent, and overvigorous Chinese security checking against errant and disruptive behavior.
Talk about proportionality.
Let me give you the spill from this end of the globe, i.e. in Oakland, California, in one of America's most crime-ridden cities....Oakland, California.... America's eighth most populous city, and right across the Bay Bridge, the Bay Area which Conde Nast Travel Magazine described as the # 1 favorite tourist destination in America... San Francisco, CA.
Oakland, California. A city wracked a rash of violent armed robberies and a city gripped by fear of thugs making it a "combat zone" at night time, when no one dares venture out to dine anymore in the city's restaurants because of fear of being mugged.
And this is happening in the U.S.A. Michael Phelps country.
The Western news media has underreported and failed to responsibly report about the "armpit" side of their own societies. And over-reported of China's armpit side.
Picture Oakland, California.... an American city gripped by a violent crime wave out of control, and a completely broken down City Hall wracked by mismanagement, official corruption.
Oakland, California.... a city of 400,000 inhabitants, 15% of which are Asian, is gripped in a violent crime wave of "takeover armed robberies" which have struck mostly Asian restaurants in Oakland.
In the last six weeks alone, there were at least 16 violent armed "takeover" robberies targeting small businessess, including food establishments, nail salons, pizza parlors, Chinese restaurants.
The latest one, targeting a Chinese restaurant in Oakland, California. In the latest, an armed gunman struck an employee with his pistol during the robbery of Full Moon Seafood, 2042 MacArthur Boulevard.
Full Moon Seafood is an ethnic Chinese restaurant owned and operated by a Chinese immigrant.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_10297748?source=rss
And here the Western News Media is carping about Beijing's overzealous security during these Olympics Games ?
Talk about proportionality. Rather be safe in Beijing than to be mugged, in Oakland, California?
Right, Dude ?
