{"id":1202217,"date":"2022-01-09T15:34:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T20:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1202217"},"modified":"2022-01-09T15:34:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T20:34:36","slug":"exclusive-rep-waltz-blasts-genocide-olympics-corporate-sponsors-preach-social-justice-but-cower-to-authoritarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-rep-waltz-blasts-genocide-olympics-corporate-sponsors-preach-social-justice-but-cower-to-authoritarians\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE \u2014 Rep. Waltz Blasts \u2018Genocide Olympics\u2019 Corporate Sponsors: \u2018Preach Social Justice\u2019 but \u2018Cower to Authoritarians\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-rep-waltz-blasts-genocide-olympics-corporate-sponsors-preach-social-justice-but-cower-to-authoritarians%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1202217&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) blasted American corporate sponsorship of the upcoming 2022 Beijing \u201cGenocide\u201d Olympics, accusing supporting companies of hypocritically preaching social justice while \u201ccower[ing] to authoritarians.<\/span><b>\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>In an exclusive statement made to <\/span><i><span>Breitbart News<\/span><\/i><span> on Friday, Republican Rep. Mike Waltz, a Florida native who represents the Sunshine State\u2019s 6th congressional district, began by calling out corporate America\u2019s \u201chypocrisy\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cThere is clear hypocrisy among corporate America who preach social justice here at home but cower to authoritarians like the Chinese Communist Party to protect their bottom line,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15931026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AP_20307600139843.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15931026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AP_20307600139843.png\" alt=\"U.S. Rep Mike Waltz, R-Fla., speaks before President Donald Trump, and First Lady Melania Trump during a campaign rally Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo\/Chris O&#039;Meara)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>U.S. Rep Mike Waltz, R-Fla., speaks before President Donald Trump, and First Lady Melania Trump during a campaign rally Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo\/Chris O\u2019Meara)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Despite Congress, and the Armed Services Committee in particular, spending \u201chundreds of billions of dollars annually trying to protect America\u2019s interests and deter the increasing aggressiveness of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party),\u201d and with Chinese President Xi Jinping \u2014 who is \u201cin the midst of a massive military buildup including their nuclear arsenal\u201d \u2014 publicly stating his intention \u201cto replace the U.S. as global super leader,\u201d Waltz lamented the American financial support for that buildup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s American dollars largely indirectly funding their military growth,\u201d he said.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cThese U.S. corporations will continue to focus on their balance sheets even if it means turning a blind eye towards the CCP\u2019s ongoing genocide, the repression of democratic rights in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and the early cover-up of the spread of COVID that has killed millions worldwide, and its escalation of military tensions,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Waltz, a colonel in the National Guard as well as a former White House and Pentagon policy adviser, concluded by declaring his commitment to do all in his power to protect future American servicepeople from the effects of current cooperation with China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cEnough is enough and I will do whatever I can on the Armed Services Committee to prevent harm to future soldiers funded by our obsession with cheap products,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Friday, Waltz called out corporate sponsors of \u201cthe Genocide Beijing Olympics\u201d for allegedly using the Chamber of Commerce to \u201cthwart\u201d an amendment he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/3645\/all-info\"><span>proposed<\/span><\/a><span> \u201cthat would have held them accountable for their hypocrisy in turning a blind eye to the CCP\u2019s atrocities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Corporate sponsors of the Genocide Beijing Olympics used the Chamber of Commerce to thwart my amendment that would have held them accountable for their hypocrisy in turning a blind eye to the CCP&#8217;s atrocities. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XrlEeprpDm\">https:\/\/t.co\/XrlEeprpDm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Mike Waltz (@michaelgwaltz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelgwaltz\/status\/1479496604440793093?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cWhen confronted with their lobbying efforts to help corporations further their profits in China that could be used against American soldier[s] one day, the Chamber [of Commerce] responded with complicit silence,\u201d he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelgwaltz\/status\/1479496606877728768?s=20\"><span>added<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Though China has a record of being one of the most oppressive and genocidal nations in modern times with a long history of mass murder, oppression, corruption, and enslavement of minority groups, several multi-national corporations have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/12\/22\/the-multi-national-corporations-sponsoring-chinas-genocide-olympics\/\"><span>rushed<\/span><\/a><span> to China\u2019s side to sponsor the 2022 Olympics in Beijing.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>The event\u2019s 13 Olympic Partners (TOP) program <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/ioc\/partners\"><span>sponsors<\/span><\/a><span> of the coming international games include U.S. corporate giants Procter &amp; Gamble, Intel, Coca-Cola, Visa, and Airbnb.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19419858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/olympic-sponsors.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19419858\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/olympic-sponsors.png\" alt=\"olympic sponsors\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Olympic sponsors (Olympics.com)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>The world\u2019s premier watchdog organization, Human Rights Watch (HRW), states China is still one of the worst abusers of human rights worldwide.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In its 2018 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/world-report\/2019\/country-chapters\/china-and-tibet\"><span>report<\/span><\/a><span>, Human Rights Watch (HRW), the world\u2019s premier watchdog organization, reported that China \u201cdramatically stepped up repression and systematic abuses against the 13 million Turkic Muslims, including Uyghurs and ethnic Kazakhs, in China\u2019s northwestern Xinjiang region.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cAuthorities have carried out mass arbitrary detention, torture, and mistreatment of some of them in various detention facilities, and increasingly imposed pervasive controls on daily life,\u201d the group wrote.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cNew regulations in Tibet now criminalize even traditional forms of social action, including community mediation by religious figures,\u201d the report continued. \u201cIn Hong Kong, a region promised \u2018a high degree of autonomy\u201d under the Sino-British Joint Declaration, the Chinese and Hong Kong governments hastened their efforts in 2018 to undermine people\u2019s rights to free speech and political participation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The organization also cited China\u2019s oppression of homosexuals, refugees, asylum seekers, and females.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last month, Waltz <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/31\/exclusive-rep-waltz-biden-worst-president-human-rights-modern-american-history\/\"><span>described<\/span><\/a><span> being the first congressmember to introduce a resolution calling for a full boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics \u201cback in February before it became cool,\u201d after initially pressing for altering the games\u2019 venue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe\u2019ve been pressuring the IOC (International Olympic Committee) and I want to be clear: the preference was for it to move the games,\u201d he told <\/span><i><span>Breitbart News<\/span><\/i><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSenator Rick Scott (R-FL), myself, and others had been asking the IOC in letter after letter, engagement after engagement, to move the games when there was still plenty of time,\u201d he added, \u201cbut once we were 12 months out it became clear that the IOC was not going to do that so we called for a full boycott.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He also expressed dissatisfaction with other prominent figures for what he deemed hypocrisy on the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI would ask those conservatives, I would ask the athletes, I would ask the sponsors: did any of you who say, \u2018well we shouldn\u2019t introduce politics into athletics\u2019 \u2014 number one: that ship has sailed \u2014 but number two: did they disagree with the IOC introducing politics when it came to apartheid?\u201d he asked. \u201cDid they think that was a bad move?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBecause the IOC banned South Africa for the better part of three decades from any Olympic event happening in South Africa or even their team competing anywhere else,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Attributing the hypocrisy to money, Waltz highlighted his introducing of measures to limit Olympic sponsors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhy was it OK for apartheid but not now with China with an ongoing genocide?\u201d he asked. \u201cThe answer, we all know, is how much money everybody is making.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSo I\u2019ve introduced measures to ban Department of Defense (DoD) aircraft from transporting anybody to the Olympics and banned the Olympic sponsors from selling their goods on military bases,\u201d he added, noting his support for the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, \u201cwhich finally, thanks to [Sen.] Marco Rubio\u2019s great work finally passed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><i><em>Follow Joshua Klein on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshuaklein_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JoshuaKlein.<\/a><\/em><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) blasted American corporate sponsorship of the upcoming 2022 Beijing \u201cGenocide\u201d Olympics, accusing supporting companies of hypocritically preaching social justice while \u201ccower[ing] to authoritarians.\u201d In an exclusive &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1202217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1202217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1202217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1202217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1202217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}