China is improving in leaps and bounds in the area of human rights. Gone are the days of four tanks stomping one guy, they’ve finally progressed to burning protesters to death. Yea!How in the world did the People’s Republic of China get to host the 2008 Olympic Games? In Tibet and now other provinces, people are being rounded up and taken away, there’s a clampdown on the free press, and the fear of a cruel government is looming.    China is blaming the exiled Dalai Lama for the unrest, while the Dalai Lama is calling for dialog. Through all of it, the Dalai Lama still thinks that the upcoming 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, shouldn’t be boycotted:

“The Olympics should not be called off,” he told a news conerence in Dharamsala, the north Indian town from where he has run a government-in-exile since fleeing Tibet in 1959.”The Chinese people… need to feel proud of it. China deserves to be a host of the Olympic Games.” 

Now, if I were Chinese, I’d be wondering why my horrifying country was being rewarded by the rest of the world by allowing it to host the 2008 Olympic Games. I think I may actually feel more proud in general if I knew that other people somewhere thought I was an actual human being and wanted me to have basic human rights.The International Olympic Committee (IOC), should never have considered The People’s Republic of China as a host country. The Tiananmen Square Massacre was only a scant 19 years ago, and they’ve evolved as far as this:

China’s official Xinhua News Agency reported at least 10 civilians were burned to death on Friday. The Dalai Lama’s exiled Tibetan government in India said Chinese authorities killed at least 30 Tibetans and possibly as many as 100. The figures could not be independently verified. In the Tibetan capital Lhasa on Saturday, police manned checkpoints and armored personnel carriers rattled on mostly empty streets as people stayed indoors under a curfew, witnesses said. The show of force imposed a tense quiet.Several witnesses reported hearing occasional bursts of gunfire. One Westerner who went to a rooftop in Lhasa’s old city said he saw troops with automatic rifles moving through the streets firing, though did not see anyone shot.  

Inspiring.    

It seems like it was only yesterday when China was trying to poison our children with lead infested toys. Ah, memories.I think the world is already doing enough for China by shipping our manufacturing jobs over there so they can turn around and sell us toxic toys and dentures and pet food.        
Last summer, China executed THIS guy to solve their international image problems even though he left office over two years earlier.And, can I just add, their industry is so filthy (that’s part of the reason why their toxic stuff is so cheap), that there are Olympic athletes going through special training and dropping out of events because they suffer from asthma and other respiratory problems and the smog in Beijing can be brutal. 

The Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie, 34, is a favourite for a gold medal this summer but is likely to focus instead on the 10,000 metres because he suffers from asthma.“The pollution in China is a threat to my health and it would be difficult for me to run 42km in my current condition,” he said. “But I am not pulling out of the Olympics altogether.”   

China was just a poor choice all the way around.

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