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<blockquote data-quote="Sammie" data-source="post: 272597" data-attributes="member: 8657"><p>Given the choice between Paris, Toronto or Beijing, I wouldn't have chosen the latter due to their record of animal and human rights issues. Here, one can get jail time for abusing a dog. Over there, they see no difference between eating a pig or a puppy. (St. Bernards are at the top of the list).</p><p> </p><p>I don't get it. The Olympics were held in Berlin in 1936 when the world knew about Nazi practices and three concentration camps had already been built. Had the U.S. boycotted it, which they came close to doing, Nazi banners may not have covered the complex and their ideology might not have been so well promoted. Could have changed history.</p><p> </p><p>And now the world is standing by once again and allowing something as prestigious as the Olympics to be held in a country who is already cracking down on the # of journalists and internet users at the event. A little paranoid, are they? </p><p> </p><p>Afraid of exposure to things like their “Hit Hard” campaign against crime, (China leads the world in executions) where every year several thousand Chinese are executed in public, often in stadiums, by means of a bullet in the back of the neck or lethal injection. And China has warned that no protests will be allowed during the event. Not to mention their live organ harvesting programs. IMO, with such a lack of human rights in China, no Olympics games in China. Such a simple concept. </p><p> </p><p>Too bad a democratic country wasn't chosen. Nothing like sending the wrong message to the wrong country all over again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sammie, post: 272597, member: 8657"] Given the choice between Paris, Toronto or Beijing, I wouldn't have chosen the latter due to their record of animal and human rights issues. Here, one can get jail time for abusing a dog. Over there, they see no difference between eating a pig or a puppy. (St. Bernards are at the top of the list). I don't get it. The Olympics were held in Berlin in 1936 when the world knew about Nazi practices and three concentration camps had already been built. Had the U.S. boycotted it, which they came close to doing, Nazi banners may not have covered the complex and their ideology might not have been so well promoted. Could have changed history. And now the world is standing by once again and allowing something as prestigious as the Olympics to be held in a country who is already cracking down on the # of journalists and internet users at the event. A little paranoid, are they? Afraid of exposure to things like their “Hit Hard” campaign against crime, (China leads the world in executions) where every year several thousand Chinese are executed in public, often in stadiums, by means of a bullet in the back of the neck or lethal injection. And China has warned that no protests will be allowed during the event. Not to mention their live organ harvesting programs. IMO, with such a lack of human rights in China, no Olympics games in China. Such a simple concept. Too bad a democratic country wasn't chosen. Nothing like sending the wrong message to the wrong country all over again. [/QUOTE]
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