The Olympics are about to begin this coming week, and isn’t it nice to see China take care of business arresting dissidents and making the country safe for visitors by limiting the freedom of its citizens?
I dread the coming Olympic games. Instead of the excitement over which drug-free athlete will excel in competition, I am more concerned about China’s use of the Olympics to sanitize its bad domestic and foreign policies.
Unfortunately, politics can’t be separated from the games. If anything, China’s negative actions in one arena–like human rights–can’t help but debase the overall spirit of the games.
http://www.truthout.org/article/china-jailing-dissidents-before-games