Our governments won’t boycott the Olympics, but we can refuse to watch


The Spicy Cauldron is, along with millions of other websites, banned in China, and this fact, along with my not being resident in that country, means I can safely say without fear for my life that the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is a stupid man if he thinks the world is going to give creedence to his claim that the Dalai Lama masterminded the recent violence in Tibet’s main city, Lhasa. Were I a Chinese citizen, such a boldly-presented public criticism could land me in jail, or worse. How a man who presides over a country that routinely oppresses, censors and punishes dissenters can accuse anyone else of being a liar, well—it simply boggles the mind. The finger should be pointing inwards, not outwards at Tibet’s long-exiled spiritual leader. When the Olympics were awarded to China, did anyone think the country would change?

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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

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