Want to Reconsider that Human Rights List?
Let's say you're the president of the United States and you've agreed to attend the Olympic Games in Beijing this summer despite China's horrible record on human rights -- a record that your own State Department has ranked among the world's 10 worst for the past two years. What do you do?
Well, if you're George W. Bush, the solution is easy: Just have the State Department cut China's name from the worst-offenders' list.
Of course, the State Dept. rankings came out before China's military police went on a murderous rampage against Tibetan monks in Lhasa last week. But no worries. The administration on Tuesday sent its warning to Beijing: "The world is watching," cautioned Thomas Christensen, deputy assistant secretary of state, according to reports. Trouble is, the world isn't watching because China's leaders have blacked out some of the country's most popular media outlets, including GoogleNews and YouTube.
No wonder GOP congressman Frank Wolf is calling for Bush to boycott the show. Or was that over reports of the smog potentially damaging the athletes?
This week, it's tough to say.
Comments:
Posted 03/18/2008 06:56pm with
Tibet like Palestine, hangs around humanity’s neck like a dead albatross. The Rhyme of a Brain-dead Political Mariner. Bramy new and just released on New York Times Bestseller List. Read how the President of the United States of America goes clam-like into that eerie political night.
Read the spine chilling account of how political hypocrisy can turn even a dumb-ass like George Bush into a war profiteering maniac. Read how the Dalai Lama is branded as a “terrorist” by the Chinese government and the world stands around silent as per usual. Yeah, a tingling good read and political nausea at it’s banal finest. Amerika’s insane boy king George WILL go to China and have himself a gay old time as Tibetans are slaughtered by the Chinese. Ain’t that the way it always goes?