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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jeff The Card: [QB] China shouldn't get the Olympics. Why? Because they commit human rights violations. Which is precisely why they SHOULD get the Olympics. Think about it. To steal from James Lilley, "Beijing, in fact, is probably more like Seoul in 1988 than Berlin in 1936." Sure, the Chinese head-honchos'll get a PR boost for getting the Olympics ... But they'll be constrained by the spotlight. "Like South Korea's generals, who were unable or unwilling to suppress a flowering democracy movement, Beijing will find itself less able to cursh its people's aspirations under the world's close scrutiny." After Tiananmen Square, George Bush asked James Lilley, "[would] the Chinese authorities ... do anything if we asked them [to be lenient]?" To which Lilley replied, "Yes, they'll probably deal with the prisoners in private instead of public." Under the spotlight of the Olympics, that would prove very damn hard. And that's why China should get the 2008 Olympics. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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