Comments on: Spielberg pulls out of Olympics http://www.guamnesty.org.uk/blog/2008/02/spielberg-pulls-out-of-olympics/ Protect the human! Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:21:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Charles Liu http://www.guamnesty.org.uk/blog/2008/02/spielberg-pulls-out-of-olympics/comment-page-1/#comment-182 Charles Liu Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:04:48 +0000 http://www.guamnesty.org.uk/blog/2008/02/spielberg-pulls-out-of-olympics/#comment-182 China never asked for gag order: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/02/12/sochin112.xml "a number of national Olympic committees in Asia, China has put no pressure on countries to silence their Olympians" "Several national Olympic committees said yesterday they had no agreements limiting free speech and denied there was any pressure from China" Alas the "no protest t-shirt" rule has been part of IOC regulation for decades: "No kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas." Did Sydney get "Free Maori"? Did Atlanta get "Davidian Is Good"? Will government related group hang "One First Nation" flag at Whistler 2010? And Mia Farrow is out of her mind. After so many years of inaction and indifference by the West, we suddenly want to blame Darfur on China? There are plenty of blame to go around, starting with our support of the SPLA and John Garang 10 years ago: http://www.google.com/search?q=Darfur+CIA+early+involvement At any rate the original Darfur mess we started has since been replaced with inter-tribal conflict and herdsmen fighting for territory. Neither Khartoum nor Beijing has much influence over that. China is simply a scapegoat. China never asked for gag order:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/02/12/sochin112.xml

“a number of national Olympic committees in Asia, China has put no pressure on countries to silence their Olympians”

“Several national Olympic committees said yesterday they had no agreements limiting free speech and denied there was any pressure from China”

Alas the “no protest t-shirt” rule has been part of IOC regulation for decades:

“No kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas.”

Did Sydney get “Free Maori”? Did Atlanta get “Davidian Is Good”? Will government related group hang “One First Nation” flag at Whistler 2010?

And Mia Farrow is out of her mind.

After so many years of inaction and indifference by the West, we suddenly want to blame Darfur on China? There are plenty of blame to go around, starting with our support of the SPLA and John Garang 10 years ago:

http://www.google.com/search?q=Darfur+CIA+early+involvement

At any rate the original Darfur mess we started has since been replaced with inter-tribal conflict and herdsmen fighting for territory. Neither Khartoum nor Beijing has much influence over that.

China is simply a scapegoat.

]]> By: robert http://www.guamnesty.org.uk/blog/2008/02/spielberg-pulls-out-of-olympics/comment-page-1/#comment-177 robert Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:39:15 +0000 http://www.guamnesty.org.uk/blog/2008/02/spielberg-pulls-out-of-olympics/#comment-177 See also <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7242655.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7242655.stm</a>, about athletes who have signed up to "Team Darfur", an organisation to raise awareness about the ongoing crisis. See also http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7242655.stm, about athletes who have signed up to “Team Darfur”, an organisation to raise awareness about the ongoing crisis.

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