ChinaCon 2008: Disaster Staged to Avoid Olympic Boycott

Posted by Cynical Sarah on May 1, 2008

Cyclones in Burma, tornados raging across the United States and earthquakes in China, all within the span of a couple weeks, may have many people thinking Mother Nature has reared her head to fight back against humans. However, it turns out that one of those natural disasters wasn’t so natural after all.

Relief workers trying to get into China to help in the earthquake disaster zone spent days trying to get through the red tape at the Chinese borders only to find that there was nothing for them to do.

“We went to western China and couldn’t find a disaster zone,” said Jane Hanson, Red Cross volunteer. “Here we were with a truckload of supplies, medical equipment and people ready to help with the searching and cleanup, and there was nothing there.”

Chinese officials told them all the cleanup was done already; the relief workers were too late.

“They said it was just Chinese efficiency in action,” Hanson said. “They had taken care of their own and everything was all back to normal.”

The volunteers reported back to the Red Cross main branch and word started to trickle to the media that China seemed to have cleared up its disaster even though pictures and stories were still being released to the rest of the world about the rescue efforts and cleanup.

“We had to do a little recon work into China,” said Larry Wise, leader of a freelance whistleblower journalism network. “A few of us managed to get into the country and after seeing the western part of China for ourselves, it was apparent that nothing had actually happened there. It’s deceptive because the building are already older and falling apart in some places, but there certainly hadn’t been an earthquake.”

For confirmation, Wise contacted some of his sources in the U.S. government with access to satellite imagery.

“Apparently nobody had really bothered to confirm China’s claims when the disaster struck,” Wise said. “But looking at satellite images from weeks ago and today, nothing has changed. That meant we needed to hunt down where these ‘disaster zones’ really were.”

What they found was a movie studio lot that had been turned into a disaster zone.

“An anonymous source alerted us to it,” Wise said. “I was amazed at what we found. The ruse was so elaborate that I’m not sure the people being rescued from the rubble weren’t really hurt and didn’t know it was all staged.”

That same anonymous source, who Wise says is a top government official in China, also said the disaster planning had begun when the Olympic Torch run began a while back and was met with a lot of negative reaction.

Because of China’s handling of Tibet and other human rights issues, what should have been a celebration of another Olympics that brings the world together in peace was actually causing all sorts of problems all over the world. Protesters were showing up in various countries along the torch route to protest the Chinese Olympic Games. Violence was erupting and some nations had even begun contemplating boycotting the Olympic Games.

“Their solution was to deflect attention,” Wise said. “Nobody is going to boycott the games after seeing the hardship the country had to go through just before the games begin.”

Chinese officials are denying the allegations that the earthquake wasn’t real, saying that the American government is just trying to make them look bad.

“Satellite imagery can be faked, seismographs can be rigged, but you can’t fake the pain and suffering of our people,” said Xao Ze Ping, spokesman for the Chinese government.

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