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Breaking News - The public questions whether Beijing is hosting the Olympic Games or mobilising troops for war

Recently, Group leader Tian Yixiang of the Olympic Security Work Coordination Group commented on the security during the Olympics in an interview with CCP’s Xinhua Net that :the main security threat faced by the Work Group is from groups including East Turkistan, Pro-Tiebtan and Falun Gong who he says plan to disrupt and harm the Olympic Games.

With the Olympic Games fast approaching, rhetoric’s of Tian are echoed in the CCP’s propaganda. The main gist of the message is that in order to handle the 7 tasks of security, the CCP has mobilised 4 military sectors including the army, the air force and navy which extend to military areas in Shenyang, Beijing, Jinan and Nanjing. Specialist units including medical services, chemical defence, combat aircraft, military ships, radars and even surface to air missiles have also been mobilised. Since 2005, the military has established Olympics Security Control facilities, and have incorporated military intelligence into these facilities. At the same time, targeted drills and training activities have been carried out demonstrating real life military control and communication to ensure the security of the Olympic games.

On this seemingly endless injection of resources into the security for the Olympics Games, the Chinese public are starting to wonder.

In Tianjing resident say that “we just want safety. We want to be fed, to be housed and to live, we don’t want Olympics, what does it mean anyway? We have battled our whole lives, getting just a few hundred yuan in pension, and faced with inflation and the upkeep of a whole family. How are we to survive? They say you are patriotic if you support the Olympics, what are u giving us to be patriotic for?”

One Beijing resident says “I think the Beijing Olympic games will lose money. Just look at the military intervention, militia, reserves, guard members and foot patrol spread out all over the country and the huge forces of public security officers and police. All over the country, how many are involved in securing the Olympics? This mobilisation of the entire pulpous looks like it’s readying for a people’s war. Is the Olympics a sporting event or a war? All we see on TV and the radio is “fight well this battle to secure the Olympics” I think the CCP is using anything as troops. How can this be for peace keeping. They are ready for war. You see there’s even missiles, how can this be for the Olympics, you’re not at war with the rest of the world right? The people want peace, we don’t want nuclear warheads.”

The above news is brought to you by Xiao Feng and Chris Thomas for Breaking News on SOH Radio Network