What I wanted to compare this to was the Beijing 2008 Olympics. Sure, the PRC aren’t Nazis, but having the PRC host the Olympics doesn’t mean that they’re not abusing human rights, suppressing freedom of speech, and legitimize them in the eyes of the free world.

Anyways, I hope the US will win Gold.

As this year’s Olympic torch wends its way across the globe on its journey to Beijing, it has attracted protestors of the Chinese government’s actions in Tibet, Darfur, and on human rights in general.

Some decry this “politicization” of the torch relay. “It’s all about the sports, and it has never been about the politics,” they say. But this ignores the historic origins of the torch relay itself. Read the following statement on the Olympic torch and see if you agree with it:

“The sportive, knightly battle awakens the best human characteristics. It doesn’t separate, but unites the combatants in understanding and respect. It also helps to connect the countries in the spirit of peace. That’s why the Olympic Flame should never die.”

It sounds pretty good, on the face of it. The only problem is that the speaker was Adolf Hitler.

www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-weigant/the-olympic-torch-relays_b_96648.html

TrikYodz, the reason why you don’t think China is bad is because the media doesn’t report these stories. If a few of a stuff that happens in China occurs in the US, hell would unleash from the general public.

Don’t forget the Chinese government heavily censors what goes out of their country. After all, it is their country and the Chinese government is responsible for its actions.

Even to this day, political opponents are executed by the government, ordinary citizens are thrown aside for government projects (such as the Olympics buildings themselves), and many other atrocities that you never makes it across the border.