maybe athletes will boycott the china olympics
March 16, 2008back in the 80s it was easy for western nations to boycott the 1980 olympics in the soviet union since there wasn’t really anything to fear — there were no economic ties between the western nations and communist, eastern block nations. the only consequence would have been a military one, but that was unlikely.
now we are facing the olympics in china. it is quite obvious that china has its own views on human rights, freedom of speech … and other western values. and it is not shy to show the world its disregard for humans as we could witness back in the 90s and can now these days in tibet witness again.
countries (like the US, germany, and others) have already condemned the extremely violent behavior of the chines police and army in tibet over the last week, but at the same time these countries after asking for restraint have made it clear that they will not consider boycotting the olympics. and the reason for that is clear, the west is much to dependent on china and can’t afford to piss china off.
this pretty much leaves a public outcry only to those the would watch the olympics and the athletes. just like steven spielberg’s boycott to help china plan the festivities, the athletes have a unique opportunity to show the world that china is far from being the friendly nation it wants us to believe it is.
