Beijing: 08-08-2008

[nittanyalum]

China should never have gotten the Olympics in the first place. Nothing about anything that's occurred this entire time has surprised me.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by nittanyalum

China should never have gotten the Olympics in the first place. Nothing about anything that's occurred this entire time has surprised me.

Bingo. At some point, people (are you listening, Olympic Powers-That-Be?) have to realize that all governments are NOT created equally!

[breathesgelatin]

Originally Posted by nittanyalum

China should never have gotten the Olympics in the first place. Nothing about anything that's occurred this entire time has surprised me.

Agreed.

This headline from yesterday made me particularly sick:

http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...834474,00.html

Basically: two Chinese women in their late 70s had their homes condemned to build parts of the Olympic complex. They were given substandard housing to make up for it, but promised better housing later. They never got it.

So they decided to file an application to publicly protest their treatment during the Olympics. China had promised it would allow its citizens to protest (in an organized fashion, in designated places, after having applied) during the Olympics.

The two women were denied because their protest application was "inappropriate" and now they are being sentenced to a year in labor camps.

Disgusting. DISGUSTING.