AMERICAblog: Human rights in China decline prior to Olympics
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
Bushco is jealous of China. They have real control over there. How in hell did Beijing get these games? I have heard the air over there is so polluted our athletes will be passing out.
Indigo
· 1 year ago
China got the Olympics because the IOC was eager to appease China. Next question? Why? Oh, my. I don't know. Who does? Was it a Bu$hCo thing? Let's be real, in a summer when The X-Files is reissued as a totally terrific movie for sensitive Republicans who want a nostalgia experience, it seems only Bladerunner real for China to have the Olympics. After all . . . who's in charge here?
Believe me, if I won the lottery, I'd finance the whole thing and then some. At this point, however, I must just pass the info on...
jr
· 1 year ago
"you hippies and your human rights talk are Un American"-Wal Mart CEO Lee Scott
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Reich on, man!
Indigo
· 1 year ago
So what we're saying is that the Chinese used to have human rights but they've been put on hold so the Olympics will be nice and tidy. Uh-huh. Tell it to the dead Tibetan Buddhists.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
It's my view that "western democracy" is pretty much a thing of the past if you've been awake the last 8 years...
jtq7
· 1 year ago
You're right! Communism is much better than Democracy! I mean, who really wants to be free? President Bush has taken away all of our freedoms anyway. We all know what that's about!
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· 1 year ago
I was just at Walmart a couple of hours ago and bought some boxer shorts. Package of three for $7 but they were made in Nam. Also some Saltines crackers and butter and Lipton iced tea. Crackers and butter are USA.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Funny how "western" companies have no qualms about locating in communist countries and passing it off as "free trade", but refuse "socialist" programs in the US, hey? Of course, we all know what that's about.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
Why do I keep seeing the revolving barricade in "Les Miz" in my mind's eye?
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· 1 year ago
Always get the unsalted butter because they'll try to take the older stuff that's going rancid and mix with salt to stop that and cover up the smell.
KansasModerate
· 1 year ago
I find it interesting how much the shoes are now on the other feet.
When I first took an interest in politics the Republican right was vocal in its criticism of communist regimes such as China and the USSR. And much of the Democratic left could be counted on to defend almost anything Mao did in China and Stalin and his successors did in the Soviet Union. (To this day, a large part of the left, especially in academia, "admires" Cuba's Castro. And some of the Hollywood left travels to South America to praise Hugo Chavez.)
It's hard for me to find anything George W. Bush has done with which I agree. However, I do support his decision to attend the opening ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics. I don't see it as an endorsement of the ruling regime in China but as a show of support for the 595 men and women making up the United States team and as a show of respect for the people of China.
Everything I have seen or read indicates that the Chinese people, in the cities as well as outlying villages, are excited about the Olympics and proud that China is the host. Prime Ministers Brown and Merkel, et al, will insult the nationalistic spirit of the Chinese people by their absence from the opening ceremonies.
It would not surprise me if the crowd returns the respect when the USA team enters the stadium behind the Stars and Stripes and the giant screens in the stadium show a very proud American President smiling and clapping.
I will be in Beijing for the Olympics and my Chinese hosts have already assured me that they and their friends appreciate President Bush's decision to be at the opening ceremonies..
kimbatch
· 1 year ago
The Chinese Government has failed to live up to the promises it made when it was awarded the right to host the Games.
Wang Wei, the Beijing organising commitee's vice president, said in July 2001: "We will give the media complete freedom to report when they come to China."
But still, months after the March riots in Tibet, journalists are not allowed into the region, dissidents are still being jailed, websites are still being censorship, China people are still be executed ….
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Communism is much better than Democracy!
I mean, who really wants to be free?
President Bush has taken away all of our freedoms anyway.
We all know what that's about!
When I first took an interest in politics the Republican right was vocal in its criticism of communist regimes such as China and the USSR. And much of the Democratic left could be counted on to defend almost anything Mao did in China and Stalin and his successors did in the Soviet Union. (To this day, a large part of the left, especially in academia, "admires" Cuba's Castro. And some of the Hollywood left travels to South America to praise Hugo Chavez.)
It's hard for me to find anything George W. Bush has done with which I agree. However, I do support his decision to attend the opening ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics. I don't see it as an endorsement of the ruling regime in China but as a show of support for the 595 men and women making up the United States team and as a show of respect for the people of China.
Everything I have seen or read indicates that the Chinese people, in the cities as well as outlying villages, are excited about the Olympics and proud that China is the host. Prime Ministers Brown and Merkel, et al, will insult the nationalistic spirit of the Chinese people by their absence from the opening ceremonies.
It would not surprise me if the crowd returns the respect when the USA team enters the stadium behind the Stars and Stripes and the giant screens in the stadium show a very proud American President smiling and clapping.
I will be in Beijing for the Olympics and my Chinese hosts have already assured me that they and their friends appreciate President Bush's decision to be at the opening ceremonies..
Wang Wei, the Beijing organising commitee's vice president, said in July 2001: "We will give the media complete freedom to report when they come to China."
But still, months after the March riots in Tibet, journalists are not allowed into the region, dissidents are still being jailed, websites are still being censorship, China people are still be executed ….
Is anyone going to hold them to account?
want to do something, go to Amnesty's mircosite - http://www.uncensor.com.au.