Commentary The Winter Olympics, or as some prefer, “the Genocide Games,” are in progress in Beijing, with participation from 91 countries. I generally eschew hyperbole, but my mind keeps straying to the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, the first time in Olympic history that a boycott was proposed—but failed to launch—on human-rights abuse grounds. Hitler took international rejection of the boycott as a sign that his persecution of Jews and expansionist policies would be tolerated if he accelerated them after the Games. He was right. Some of my colleagues seem equally gloomy. Epoch Times contributors Lawrence Solomon and Patricia Adams observed recently in these pages that while the modern Olympics were historically premised on the values of “excellence, respect [and] friendship,” the Chinese Communist Party’s draconian control measures make a mockery of all three, in the process staging “the most chillingly dystopian Olympics in history.” It has been almost 14 …