送交者: 草根 于 北京时间 08/22/2008 (173 reads) [累积27940分 给草根发悄悄话]
主题：zt北京2008铁蹄背后的真实（看看西方主流思想领军人物对京澳的观点）
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Truth behind the jackboots at Beijing 2008北京2008 铁蹄背后的真实(澳楼梅译） Article from:
Andrew Bolt （太阳报专栏记者，评论家，也是澳洲主流思想界的领军人物）
2008-8-17 19:36
August 13, 2008 12:00am
THE Beijing Games are a party held in a prison. Never have the Olympics been held under such oppressive military control.
京澳是一场监狱里的聚会。是前所未有的在如此高压的军警控制之下的奥运。
It's bad enough that the security is choking the life out of the Games. Worse is that its aim seems less to protect athletes from terrorists than to save China's regime from its people.
这些安全措施本来已经足够坏地窒息了奥运的生机，更坏的它目的是在自己的人民中挽救中国的政权，而不是为保护运动员的反恐。
A reported 110,000 soldiers and police - more than twice the size of the entire armed forces of Australia - now patrol Beijing's streets, helped by 290,000 citizens wearing the armbands of security "volunteers".
据报道有相当于澳洲全部军队人数两倍的110000 军警现在在北京的大街上巡逻， 同时又有带着臂章的安保 “自愿者”290000 帮助执勤。
Fully armed Chinese soldiers and police have manned almost every intersection for kilometres around the main stadium, in an open show of force not seen at the previous Games in Sydney or Athens.
全副武装的军警几乎布置在离场馆数公里远的所有十字路口，这是在悉尼和雅典奥运上看不到的一种公开的宣泄武力。
Tanks have been seen on the roads, and surface-to-air missiles were positioned to defend the opening ceremony from attack.
大街上有的是坦克，地对空导弹被用来保卫开幕式免遭攻击。
But the authorities clearly had more than terrorists on their mind.
但是当局明显有除恐怖分子之外的东西在他们的头脑里。
Television coverage of the opening ceremony revealed that thousands of the spectators in the stands were in fact police and soldiers, while official cheerleaders stood in the aisles choreographing the applause.
当站在过道里的官方的拉拉队队长们用舞蹈动作来指挥鼓掌时，开幕式的电视转播揭示那些成千上万看台上的观众事实上是一批军警。
Outside, most Beijing residents have been kept well away from the venues. Crowds trying to watch the opening night fireworks from the subway station nearest to the athletes village were pushed away by paramilitary police. Crowds in the street were moved on.
在外面，大多数北京居民被迫远离奥运场馆。那些试着在奥运村地铁附近看一看奥运开幕式的群众被武装警察驱离，人群不能在大街上停留。
A huge fence keeps locals hundreds of metres from the Olympic Green Common Domain, admitting only the rich few who can afford to pay almost an average day's wage just to walk outside the venues.
一个巨大的篱笆把居民从几百米远的奥运绿色公共园区隔离开来，允许进入的只是那些能够付得起一天平均工资，而又只能在场馆外面兜兜的很少的几个有钱人。
"Inside, it's more like a military compound than the beating heart of a sporting celebration," complained Herald Sun Olympics reporter Ben English.
“里面，更象军营而不是令人心跳的运动盛会”太阳报奥运记者本英格利西说。
So paranoid are the authorities - almost certainly of protesters - that even relatives of the cyclists were kept away from the finish line of the 245km men's event on Saturday and the women's race on Sunday, leaving the stands near the sensitively iconic Great Wall half empty.
当局对示威者是如此的恐惧，在周六254公里男子自行车赛的终点线，那些运动员的家属也被驱离，导致长城下这个具有敏感象征的看台一大半空置。
Rumours are now rife that the reason so many "sold-out" events also have rows upon rows of empty seats is that the regime kept back tickets to ensure it could rein in the crowds.
门票的售罄，和那一排排空位使传言四起，据说是当局用保留门票的方法试图 来控制人群。
Certainly any spontaneity in the stands is seen as a threat. Spectators are banned from bringing in any banners or flags other than national ones, and 30 official cheering squads instruct them on how to express themselves in the approved way.
当然看台之上任何自发的行为都会被认为是一种威胁。观众是禁止携带横幅和旗子，国旗除外。30个官方拉拉队在指示人们如何用许可的方式表现他们自己。
Even that's not enough control. The regime has also given cheap tickets to 800,000 students, and in return trained them in the official Olympic cheer, as written by the Spiritual Civilisation Development Office of the Chinese Communist Party and the Games organising committee.
这还不够当局还发了800000张学生票，作为交换就像中共精神文明办公室和京澳委书面要求的，他们必须接受官方的拉拉队训练。
Sure, China did promise to open up and allow protests during the Games, but that turned out to be the hoax that was predicted by everyone but the International Olympic Committee.
当然，中国确实承诺在奥运期间开放，允许示威，但是结果却是一场骗局，而这个骗局是除了国际奥委会其他每个人都早已预见到的结果。
Any protesters must apply at least five days in advance for a permit to hold a rally in one of only three designated protest areas, each in parks kilometres from the Olympic sites. And from reporters.
示威者必须提前五天申请在那仅有三个指定区域里的示威，，而这些场地却是在远离奥运场地和记者的公园。
And as The Australian's Rowan Callick reported yesterday, not a single protest has yet been approved. Surprise! Not.
就澳洲人报鲁汶卡里克昨天报道，没有一个示威被批准过。惊讶不！
In fact, some of those mad enough to ask for permission to complain have been arrested and ejected from Beijing. Taxi drivers taking anyone to the parks have been ordered by police to inform on their passengers.
事实上这些疯极了的申请示威许可人， 已经被捕或被驱逐出北京。的士司机被命令向警方举报要去示威公园的人。
Yes, I've heard some reporters and IOC officials in Beijing, enthralled by the lavish party-party-party thrown by the regime, complain that to mention this overwhelming security is to nit-pick on the negatives.
当然， 我也听到一些报道说，被当局用一个接一个的豪华盛宴迷惑住的国际奥委会的官员，他们抱怨那些对过分安保的揭示，说是对负面的挑刺。
The sport's the thing, they squeal, hogging up the regime's entertainments, paid for by people who can't affrd to see them themselves and can't afford to complain about it, either.
运动在这里是国人支付，但他们承受不起自己掏钱去看，也无法承受去抱怨的后果，然而当局却可以在运动的嘶鸣中激发无限的乐趣。
Ignore the signs of overwhelming state control, we're told, even though the IOC assured us that the reason China got the Games was precisely to help hustle it into a more liberal future.
我们被告知无需正视这些强烈的国家操控症状，尽管国际奥委会保证中国取得主办权正是为了迫使中国进入一个更自由未来。
It's true that the opening ceremony gave some cause for hope that this might indeed happen -- that China would continue to open up and, maybe even one distant day, to democratise.
至少这是真的，开幕式给了一些希望，也许这确实发生——中国继续开放，也许将来有一天民主化了。
The ceremony was remarkable, for instance, in skipping any reference to the founder of China's authoritarian state, Mao Zedong, or his communist creation. Instead, it lavished praise on China's venerable past, and especially on Confucius, who took the role in the ceremony that Mao would have had just 25 years ago.
开幕式跳过了国家奠基者毛泽东和它的共产主义创建。代之以中国辉煌自豪过去，而毛的25年前的角色被孔子代替了。
Sayings of Confucius, the philosopher born in 551BC, were displayed or chanted during the show, and hundreds of performers dressed as his disciples.
说到孔子， 一个出生在公元前551年的哲人，在演出中他被展示和歌颂，还有那数百演员化装成他的学生。
How significant is the choice of Confucius, not Mao, as the deity of the Games?
作为京澳的神明，选择孔子而不是毛有多少重要？
Consult Mao himself. The tyrant famously purged Confucius during the Cultural Revolution, destroying his shrines and teaching that the sage and his followers were "buffoons who had a place only in the garbage of history".
参考毛自己的做法，在文革这个暴君出了名的清除孔子思想，毁孔庙，废孔学，孔子这个圣人和他的学生当时是“应该扫进历史垃圾箱的小丑”
Mao likewise waged war on China's past by ordering a campaign against the Four Olds - old ideas, old culture, old customs and old habits. Old buildings were destroyed. Libraries of the classics were trashed. China was to become a country that had no past, only Mao's future. It was to have no gods or seers but Mao himself.
毛同样掀起了一场反四旧为内容的和旧中国的战争。古建筑被破坏，古书被毁，中国变成一个没有过去，只有毛未来的国家。除了毛外这里曾是没有上帝和先知的地方。
But at the opening ceremony, Mao was removed. His face, for the first time in a decade, does not even appear on currency printed for the Games
但在开幕式毛被移去，他的面孔十年来首次没有在奥运纸币上出现。
Confucius and China's past were hailed instead as China's greatest glories. The world's, in fact.
作为中国最伟大的荣耀，事实上也是世界的荣耀，人们欢呼孔子和中国的过去。
Mao tried to erase China's past, but the past has instead erased the old monster, and we should at least celebrate that. But the soldiers in Beijing's streets should make us hold back from cheering too hard.
毛试图抹去中国的过去，取而代之是中国的过去抹去了这个老恶魔，至少我们可以为此而庆贺。但是北京大街上的军警却让我们不能尽心的为此欢悦。
What the Games show is that nationalism has replaced communism as the ideology of China's leaders. What's more, the authoritarian state created by Mao lives on, and the regime now promotes the philosopher who most famously preached obedience and duty to the state.
京澳展示的是国家领导人意识形态从共产主义转变到民族主义。还有就是毛创建的集权国家还活着，而这个政权现在炒卖的是教诲人们对国家的服从和述职的哲人。
Enjoy the sport from Beijing. But do not miss the jackbooted message from the stands and the streets outside.
享受一下来之北京的运动，但是不要错过那些来自看台上和外面大街上的铁蹄所转递的信息。
This is a Games built on military power and a hyper-nationalism. That can be a lethal mix, and no happy splashing from the pool should blind us to its danger。
这是一场建立在武力和极端民族主义上的奥运。那可是致命的混合，从游泳池溅出多么欢快的水花都不应该弄瞎了我们的眼，而无视这种危险。
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