The bastards.
The plight of professional surfers, and their lack of freedoms, really got me going late last month. The fact that none of them, no not one, can speak freely about their lives thanks to an article baked into the just signed 10-year contract which prohibits any negative statement about the World Surf League or the “sport of surfing.”
My blood boiled for them, for gagged peoples everywhere, and so I became an activist. A megaphone for the silenced. A voice for the voiceless and while Ace Buchan, Wade Carmichael, Caio Ibelli need recognition and action, China’s native Uighur population needs both much more, especially from the free folk.
From us.
The Uighur, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority who live in China’s western Xinjiang province, have been the target of Chinese ire for decades. They are not Han, the ethnic group making up 92% of China’s population, for one, and mostly Muslim, for two, flying in the face of Mao Zedong’s utopian cult of personality. A real affront to total control and according the a just-released New York Times report, the focus of an unprecedented crackdown. Shall we read? It is our duty and our right.
China’s Communist Party has a special manual instructing officials on how to deal with Uighur university students who get back to find that their families have been imprisoned as part of the mass repression of the Uighur people.
Under President Xi Jinping, China has installed a high-tech police state in the region and detained at least 1 million Uighurs in prisons and camps. Former detainees have described physical and psychological torture in those centers.
The 403 pages of internal documents published by The New York Times detail the extent of China’s efforts to deflect questions and criticism of unprecedented crackdown.
The documents include instructions for local officials to corner Uighur students returning home, as soon as they arrive, to stop them from speaking more widely about what is going on.
A seven-page guide for officials in Turpan City, in eastern Xinjiang, includes 13 questions and model answers to tell students when they ask about their vanished families. The Times described it as “chillingly bureaucratic.”
On and on it goes and… really fuck China. First punk pop “surf” brand Vans had to disappear a gorgeous shoe, fearing that sales in Beijing would tank. Now, Beijing is trying to brainwash the best people on the mainland.
There is a fantastic Uighur restaurant in greater Los Angeles’s San Gabriel Valley if you’re down for a culinary adventure.
Otherwise, fuck China.
the WSL should disappear all the Brazilians in order to “cleanse their brains of religion”.
and fuck Vans..I guess
Thank you for the restaurant tip- have you been? 4.5 stars on Yelp so far.
I hope this story doesn’t torpedo your revenue from China…
Your quote Chas—“The plight of pro surfers, and their lack of freedoms–the fact that none of them can speak freely about their lives or say anything negative about the Wsl or the sport of surfing”. ——–MSD quote–“The advent of ‘professionalism’ to the sport will be the final blow,” said Miki Dora in a 1969 interview with Surfer Magazine.
“Under this ‘professional’ regime, the wave rider will be forced into being totally “subservient” to the few ( the WSL). A surfer should think carefully before selling his being to these ‘people,’ (the WSL) as he’s signing his own death warrant as a “personal entity”. Umm, Chase, your actually beginning to sound a little (a lot?) like da Cat. I say that in a good way, for all his flaws– da Cat seemed to tell it as it was–even way back then.
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Chas, are you the ‘new’ and ‘improved’ da Cat, (without the sordid? background), speaking out against the repression and greed of the the surf industry? “These few Wall Street flesh merchants seek to unify surfing only to extract the wealth”. It’s Ok man, someone’s got to do it. A rebel with a cause. …. ..
Hmmmm,
a smear, filled with dis~tortions:
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
right…
A REAL review of Bristol Wavepool. BEHOLD THE FUTURE OF SURFING – OR IS IT THE NOW! https://www.youtube.com/wat…
You think the WSL and China 🇨🇳 is bad try being a female cricketer
https://www.google.com.au/a…
no one on that board game wants to surf good waves alone it looks like.. maybe the sharks keeping them away? “risk”
I am so on the fuck china band wagon right now.. if the ballsack of blonde hair in the whitehouse has done one thing that is ok, it is that he brought China to the forefront, whether by accident or not. China is a govt. of “we do not give one fucking shit about you or what you want, we are doing for us and our party.. so go fuck yourself, because if we want we will do”…. now what sucks is none of us would be on the internet or using a cell phone if not for them.. and the next generation of cars is going to be chinese technology.. they are about to release a Volvo that supposedly will make Tesla seem like your kids made it. Wait till they really start surfing.
Thanks Olympics.. you cunt bags
The worst part is our leaders that sold us out. We are to blame. Completely outwitted by China. Not hard to use greed and personal gain against us. I used to like Clinton until all the evidence of how easily manipulated he was by China came out. Wasn’t it like 2002-2005 when everything made under the sun was coming from there? As much as Trump is a buffoon, I appreciate that he was the only candidate that brought up the issue. Whether or not he was just pandering remains to be seen.
did you ever see that report about how during that time, ships were just sitting outside port waiting to be called in, even if they didn’t have a shipment scheduled because it was so profitable and they were shipping so much stuff. Now China is taking it to a new level of higher end stuff.. my wife is pissed because i said no electric volvo.. LOL.. I had an 850 years ago, best car I ever owned, fucking ripped with snow tires on it. Volvo no more. bummer
Shiploads of disposable goods all destined for Walmart where cheapos can feel like they are beating the system.
Its our rights gdamit!
Dude, put your coffee with the bourbon down….
Ivanka has filed and been granted over 40 patents in China…. do you know how hard it would be to get one patent and she got 40 odd something in one year during a “trade war” initiated by her father????
Put the blame on the intellectually lazy American consumer. Target and Walmart may as well fly the chinese flag…. Amazon too. We are too dependent on cheap goods that WE DON”T NEED.
And 2002-5 was when Bush was dismantling our govt, taking away our rights, entering wars with countries that did not have anything to do with 9/11 and setting the table for housing crash/deep recession. The US was a tire fire when he left although all his buddies made out like bandits. The cloak of war is the easiest way to steal. No bid contracts. Lost palettes of cash. No exit plans. No victories on the horizon, just expenditures. DEFICITS.
Scott, Bush couldn’t even steal the Iraqi oil which was the point of the whole thing.
SA attacked us, Israel filmed and we destroyed their common enemies society????? Who are we working for?
Chill, my friend. The rest all suck too but the shit went full bore with the Clintons. My point was Clunton lost me on that one. Bush was a disaster! Fully agree. Totally agree that the US consumers ultra cheapness was a huge factor. Everyone here is to blame.
pandaing ?
Chas has a soul !!! good work, and thank you for bringing some light into this pit of right wing trolls
Don’t the Australians use facial recognition already at any major sporting event? Sure I read they used it for there flop of a Commonwealth games?
Chas, what’s a few Uighurs too a government that’s taken 300 million out of poverty and placed them square and fair in the middle class ?
Money over freedom, they got what they deserve.
How are they not free exactly?
Love their ancient heaven and earth, five element philosophy related to food, medicine, martial arts, design and so on. Admire too their devotion to family, strong work ethic, cleverness, adaptability to technology and how they patiently play the long game for future generations. But lookout world – facial recognition tech and every possible controlling thing that could go with it, now being perfected in Camp Uighur, far western China, is coming your way soon.
https://www.google.com/amp/…
Happening elsewhere eh Laird? Queensland has been known to be a bit of a police state, so not surprising i suppose that this technology was rushed into practice there. No doubt other states and countries will follow. Be interesting to see what sort of public reaction there is in democratic countries…
Don’t they mean President Winnie the Pooh? Never heard of this “Xi” character
Your quote Chas–“The plight of professional surfers, and their lack of freedoms–the fact that none of them can speak freely about their lives or the sport of surfing”. ——–MSD quote–“The advent of ‘professionalism’ to the sport will be the final blow,” said Miki Dora in a 1969 interview with Surfer Magazine.
“Under this ‘professional’ regime, the wave rider will be forced into being ”totally subservient” to the few ( the WSL). A surfer should think carefully before selling his being to these ‘people,’ (the WSL?) as he’s signing his own death warrant as a “personal entity”. Umm, Chase, your actually beginning to sound a little (a lot?) like da Cat. I say that in a good way, for all his flaws– da Cat seemed to tell it as it was–even way back then.
PS. Don’t worry Chas, da Cat aint around right now, he’s not gonna file a ‘lawsuit’ for plagiarism.
Lack of freedom? They had the freedom to sign –or not to sign–they ‘chose’ to sign.. ….
A few laughs in between and well have a gay old time
Like Fred and Barney.
I came as a follower of the free folk movement
You don’t have to froth on surfing (it seems)…
To love Beach Grit!
It’s better than licking each other’s bums.
Sharks, Terrorists, Revolutions, Politics, Ecology, Environment, Bullying, surfing, Blow…
BG really is a one stop shop.
You forgot religion
if only!
Ha!!
And haiku.