At the Olympics in Beijing ramp up, now is the time to force the issue about china. When it won the Olympics in 2000, it said it would be a non-polluting games. Notice all the athletes training elsewhere and then wearing masks around the town. It is far worse than any American city has ever been. Then in 2000 it said it would make the games open and informative for the Press. Now we find the Press is off limits to large chunks of not only the city but the country and bugs and listening devices are omnipresent and the people have been warned not to talk to the worldwide press. This is being Open? Now President Bush rightly critiques their human rights policy (not just Tibet but political prisoners, et all) and he is blasted by china. Does not China know the story about People living in Glass Houses. Hypocrisy cubed.
I think it is time for a general boycott of China. Chinese goods should be boycotted. Perhaps we should rethink buying american. I know it might cost a few more pennies and we may not be able to order that appetizer the next time we dine out, but perhaps standing up for principle is something Americans should do say every hundred years or so. And right now china represents that moment.
Who is with me?
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