>>>You don't think China, with their antics before and during the Olympics weren't treating the whole thing politically? The Olympics has always been a political football. Countries have boycotted various olympics at different times. There are few countries that are as blatant in their human rights violations as China. Should we next award the Olympics to North Korea, or maybe to Zimbabwe? Somewhere a line has to be drawn over which we should not step. Should we be content to award the olympics to a country that steals it's citizens homes to build an arena?
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>>>I agree that almost every country in the world is probably guilty of some violation, but finding countries that are as bad as China is a difficult task. I see hosting the Olympics as an honour, and I don't believe that honour should be sullied by giving it to a country that has done nothing to earn it.
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>>As a start:
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>>http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/columnists/Secret-atrocities-of-Chinese-regime.1560709.jp
>>http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0507/p09s01-coop.html
>>http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9b05e3de1630f933a05756c0a9659c8b63
>>http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=12974
>>http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/2709/prmID/172
>>http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5603830
>>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/30/world/asia/30dissident.html
>>http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=159701
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>Again You are shooting links at the speed of renegade tennis ball machine <g>
>And now I am suppose to read all this ?!?

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