and really, should the world be surprised that China's demonstration sports include Tibetan-protester bashing and the security-police biathlon (they run to where protesters are gathered, then shoot guns)?
The tank-catching event will be held in Tiananmen Square this summer.
The Dalai Lama has said he'll have to step down if protesters get violence, but really, he had to say it. Truth is, no one would have listened to Ghandi until it was clear his nonviolence was the only alternative to a lot of very real anti-British violence.
Besides, he was picked to be Lama when he was 2 because he was someone's reincarnation. How exactly do you resign from that?
Also this summer in China, the smog-choked runner's marathon; the pollution-choked waterway individual medley; and a special gymnastics event in which the little girls on the US team will challenge Chinese children in making toys for Mattel.
There's some buzz about a boycott, which would be pointless. The world decided the Olympics should be held in a Communist dictatorship which values basic freedoms almost as much as the air we're now worried the athletes have to breath. Is any of this really a surprise?
Just because you have 'free trade' with it doesn't mean a country is free.
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