Chen wrote...
> Dalai Lama reiterated he sup****ts Beijing hosting the Olympics, but
> pointedly said nobody can tell those opposing Chinese actions in Tibet
> "to shut up."
I really don't care what the Dalai Lama says, and I was there as my own
personal protest contingent and wasn't affiliated with any of the Tibet,
Burma, Darfur, or other factions. Someone asked me what side I was on,
and I held up my sign and said I was on "our side" (freedom).
I'm not very interested in the Tibet issue, and I don't recognize the
Dalai Lama as anybody im****tant because he is a religious leader and I
am anti-religious and pro-democracy. The Dalai Lama is unelected so he
has no legal authority, though still more authority than the unelected
Communist puppet installed by Beijing.
> "I sup****t Chinese hosting the famous world games," he said Thursday
> in an international hotel outside Tokyo "because China is the most
> populous and an ancient nation. Chinese people deserve to host the
> games."
>
> Everyone who wants to boycott Olympic game must shut up. He means all
> western leaders too.
We're not boycotting the Olympics (yet), we're simply using it as a
forum to protest China's human rights abuses. My protest sign didn't
even mention the Olympics, it simply stated the obvious fact that I
could freely protest in San Francisco without being shot.
What was really neat is that pro-China demonstrators were allowed to
demonstrate in favor of the Olympic Torch and walk down the street
protesting the protests and they also weren't shot to death. Maybe
Westerners should simply avoid the Beijing Olympics out of safety
concerns, because their tendency to speak freely without worrying
about political implications might cause Chinese security forces to
shoot them.
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