The Nationalism sweeping across China, the Political Education Program (torture and abuse) in Tibet's capital are disturbing trends as the Soiled and Spoiled 2008 Beijing Olympics approach. Futher, the ridiculous, radical over reaction of Chinese to Jack Cafferty's honest assessment of China and it's products should give reporters contemplating covering the Summer Olympics serious cause for pause. Secret police tails can be expected, your every move shadowed by a low level government weasel keeping and eye on everything you do, looking for any reason what so ever to detain you, torture you and deport you. God forbid you are accused of divulging State Secrets...a vague term used to sentence people to interminal punishments or years at slave labor. Perhaps Reuters, the AP, CNN, FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS and other major news organizations should simply SKIP THE OLYMPICS, cover the story from the safety of a desk at the home office, or a laptop sitting on your coffee table as you watch the action unfold on TV.
From AP:
Secret police tails. Reprimands or perhaps even expulsion for writing about topics sensitive for the Chinese Communist Party. Propaganda apparatchiks working overtime to stifle negative news.
These were some of the grim scenarios painted Friday at a Paris conference sponsored by press freedom groups about conditions that foreign reporters might face at the Beijing Olympics this August.
China’s viewpoint was not heard: The two-day meeting’s organizers said Beijing Games officials, the International Olympic Committee, leading sports manufacturers and NBC, which holds the U.S. rights to broadcast the Olympics, declined or did not respond to invitations.
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Let's see. You can boycott and do whatever you want to. But your presidents will come. I welcome you to Beijing. Don't forget to bring your Tibet flag and buy yourself medical insurance for your trip in China. Chinese nationalistic youth know what to do to you.
If any nation boycott Beijing Olympic Games, I guarantee you, that nation's embassy will be smashed, just like the American embassy in 1999. We have a lot of anger to release. We would really appreciate if you give us a vent.
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