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Tibet is but one reason to consider not watching the Chinese Olympics.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Image from NASA's website. Every government violates human rights to one extent or another. Consequently, every choice for an Olympics game site involves the political, unless the games are limited to an Olympics-governed parcel of land set aside exclusively for all Olympics games.  When the International Olympics Committee chose China for the 2008 summer Olympics, the handwriting clearly was on the wall that plenty of worldwide dissent would arise over such a choice, and that the Chinese government would attempt for the Olympics to be a splendid way to try to whitewash its abysmal human rights situation today (see here, too) and in the recent past, including the Tiananmen Square massacre and the subsequent and ongoing crackdown related thereto...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on March 16, 2008 (boomark / email).