Wednesday, July 11, 2001

"Should we have granted the 1936 Olympics to Nazi Germany? No. Should we grant the 2008 Olympics to Communist China? No, No, and No."

"Human rights and equity are at the very heart of the Olympic spirit that you represent ... we feel it would be unacceptable, even dangerous, to grant the 2008 Summer Olympics to Beijing ... there is no need to grant one of the last and harshest dictatorships in the world the right to host the most prestigious sporting event."

Those words are from a letter sent this past month to all 122 voting members of the International Olympic Committee. [...]

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To the Beijing Butchers, the Chinese bosses who mowed down thousands of their people around Tiananmen Square in 1989, winning the Olympics would be a huge propaganda victory. Like Hitler's Nazi Germany in 1936, they could boast that they and their oppressive system were acceptable -- even supported -- by the rest of the world. So, what's with this bunk about freedom and democracy?

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Besides [...], China has been jailing, torturing and killing [...] Falun Gong followers everywhere. The Falun Gong, a mixture of spiritual meditation and physical exercise, has had at least 230 of its followers tortured to death. And the numbers keep mounting daily.

"What we are witnessing today in China is the most persistent and pervasive assault on human rights (since the Tiananmen Square massacre)," Liberal MP Irwin Cotler has stated.

"China's abominable human rights record should disqualify Beijing from consideration," said U.S. Congressman Tom Lantos.

Last week, the European Parliament voted to oppose awarding the Games to Beijing.

"China's disastrous records on human rights makes Beijing an unsuitable venue for the 2008 Olympic Games," it declared.

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And so it goes. China is not fit to host the Olympic Games, unless we are prepared to turn a blind eye to most of the rules of human decency.

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As far as the Beijing Butchers are concerned, they've declared they are doing just fine in improving human rights.

This spring, they issued a report saying human rights in China "maintained positive forward momentum" and harsh crackdowns on the Falun Gong was just the regime's way of "safeguarding social stability."

In China, the Games have already begun. They're called the Killing Games.

http://www.canoe.ca/TorontoNews/ts.ts-07-11-0037.html

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