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"OLYMPICS TRIGGER PROTESTS, BOYCOTTS AND NAME-CALLING"
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The 2008 Beijing Olympics have put the spotlight on China,
bringing attention to the conflict in Tibet and all the
human rights abuses. Protesters disrupted Olympic torch
relays in San Francisco and other western cities, many of
them holding signs with stern messages for China such as
"Free Tibet!", "Stop human rights abuses!", and "Give us
cheaper TVs now!"
Indian soccer star Bhaichung Bhutia declined to run with the
torch as "my way of standing by the people of Tibet," while
actor Aamir Khan vowed to run with the torch "not in sup****t
of China", but "with a prayer in my heart for the people of
Tibet."
Inspired by Khan, long jumper Anju Bobby George announced
that she will protest China's human rights abuses by
participating in the Beijing Olympics. "I am participating
in the Olympics not in sup****t of China," she said, "but
with a prayer in my heart for the people of Tibet."
She pledged to lie on the ground before every jump,
extending her legs outward to form a 'T.' "It may look like
I'm stretching," she said. "But I'm showing my sup****t for
Tibet."
Just a day before the torch relay in India, cricket star
Sachin Tendulkar pulled out of the event, saying that he had
a groin injury. It's believed that he suffered the injury
while running away from Tibetan activists.
Indian officials were so worried about protests that they
drastically shortened the route of the torch relay, asking
Khan to run with it from his bedroom to living room. He
handed the torch to tennis star Leander Paes, who took it
all the way to the kitchen. Other celebrities then did
mini-runs from one appliance to another.
The video was doctored for Chinese television to show Khan
and Paes running in front of the Taj Mahal, cheered on by
thousands of people, including Mahatma Gandhi.
Meanwhile, CNN's Jack Cafferty is in trouble with the
Chinese for calling them "goons and thugs," two of the worst
insults that the FCC allows on American TV.
Saying that America im****ted Chinese-made "junk with the
lead paint on them and the poisoned pet food," Cafferty
added: "They're basically the same bunch of goons and thugs
they've been for the last 50 years."
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu demanded an
apology, saying, "We are shocked at and strongly condemn the
evil attack by the CNN anchor on the Chinese people. How
dare he call us goons and thugs? Not all of us are goons
and thugs."
Indeed, a New York Times investigation has found that only 1
percent of Chinese are goons and thugs -- and all of them
work for the government.
Cafferty's words have upset many of them, according to Jin
Yao, president of the National Association of Goons and
Thugs. "He say we same goons and thugs for last 50 years,"
Yao said. "Is not true. We better goons and thugs than
before. We take government course."
In other news, some folks in Britain are trying their best
to boycott everything from China. Harvey Wilson of London
has stopped buying toys from China, John Rowling of Oxford
has stopped buying electronics from China, and Linda Scott
of Birmingham has dumped her boyfriend, Chang Lee.
In Winnipeg, Canada, Gerald Smith, a retired bus driver who
spends most of his evenings at the local casino, said he's
getting rid of everything he owns that's made in China,
including all his appliances, furniture, clothes and teeth.
Asked if he's protesting a particular Chinese policy, Smith
nodded and pointed to the words on his T-****rt: "Free to
bet!"
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