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Old Apr 15, 2008, 09:25 pm   #10 (permalink) (top)
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The U.S. isn't being particularly nosy about this issue, for
reasons I stated above, but there's minding your own business
and taking part in a Red China propoganda lovefest while
women and bhuddist monks get beat up in the street.
True, and the Olympics are as good a place as any to highlight the
right of self-determination, a hallmark of reasonable society. The question is: Which is more important, a bunch of silly games or having human rights? Like many issues, concerns over rights abuses are not intrinsic to everyone's understanding, so such concerns should be publicized.

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