Wednesday, February 13, 2008

An odd take on things...

So, Speilberg has decided to boycott helping China with their Olympic preparations until they help put pressure on Sudan to "help stop the crisis in Darfur." Am I the only one that finds this odd considering the human rights violations that China itself has been perpetrating? The violations in Tibet alone are among what some call "the worst in the world," which has created an apartheid system which has denied Tibetans equal social and economic status in their own land. But sure, let's have the Olympics over there and pressure them to help out with some other country's system of genocide. Yes, I understand the genocide in the Sudan is probably a notch or two worse than what's going on in Tibet, but it just seems odd to even try and "team" up with them to work on another human rights violation. Why not try and get their situation fixed first...for that matter why have the Olympics there when it sounds like things are not getting any better.

A good site for more information about China's human rights violations is here at The Human Rights Watch site. I see they also posted a story about Speilberg, so it's getting out there. They bring up this same point in their piece as well. It seems as though the Chinese government is NOT sticking to the human rights pledges it made to bring the Games to Beijing. Here is another interesting "protest" site called Tibet Truth. Without getting too deep into the site, i'm curious why they are only asking for the English athletes to show their support with a blue ribbon. Check it out, it's worth it just for the imagery on the first page of the site.

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