London - Police compete in olympic farce - Boycott China's olympics and expose their terrible Human Rights record
To all those who think politics shouldn't enter into sport - well I'm really sorry but thousands of people being beaten, tortured, forcibly sterilized and imprisoned while their country is ethnically cleansed, colonised and ransacked of it's timber and minerals is just way more important than running and swimming races. If only the IOC had said to China "Very nice bid for the games but your human rights record just stinks! Clean up your act and only then will we consider you as a host in the future". Imagine then how much the regime in China would just have to start changing its brutal ways. Instead the IOC at a stroke afforded the Chinese government respectability which is what they most desired in the world and effectively said that human rights are only a minor issue compared to sport. What a wasted opportunity to do real good.
Note EU-Digest: let us not forget the devious role sponsoring corporations play in this so called "major sport event" and those hypocritical political dignitaries, who pride themselves for being democratic leaders, planning to attend the event. Compliments to European and other world leaders, including Mrs. Merkel from Germany and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who have had the moral courage to announce they are not attending because of China's terrible Human Rights record and the attrocities in Tibet.
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