Clearly, there is too much money (at least several billion dollars, but no one seems to know for sure) on the line for a widespread boycott of the games, especially with corporate giants like Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Visa and GE, the parent company of NBC, which paid $894 million for the television rights. In recent days, however, pressures against China have come from the street in London as well as Paris, and – hopefully – today, in San Francisco. Short of having the athletes themselves boycott the games as they should, I plan to travel, go mountain biking, hike and work around my house instead of watching the 2008 Beijing Olympics of Commercialism.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
The real Olympic ideal
Reactions from the International Olympic Committee and from most western governments about the recent events in Tibet have shown that no one dares to put pressure on the Chinese and that the Olympic Emperor really has no clothes. Of course how are the United States to gave the Chinese any lessons in human rights when we’re now world’s famous for Guantanamo, Abu-Ghraib and water-boarding? This certainly is old news; for quite some time, wise minds have known that the Olympic motto “altius, certius, fortius” should be replaced by “greed, cowardliness and double-speak.” 
Clearly, there is too much money (at least several billion dollars, but no one seems to know for sure) on the line for a widespread boycott of the games, especially with corporate giants like Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Visa and GE, the parent company of NBC, which paid $894 million for the television rights. In recent days, however, pressures against China have come from the street in London as well as Paris, and – hopefully – today, in San Francisco. Short of having the athletes themselves boycott the games as they should, I plan to travel, go mountain biking, hike and work around my house instead of watching the 2008 Beijing Olympics of Commercialism.
Clearly, there is too much money (at least several billion dollars, but no one seems to know for sure) on the line for a widespread boycott of the games, especially with corporate giants like Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Visa and GE, the parent company of NBC, which paid $894 million for the television rights. In recent days, however, pressures against China have come from the street in London as well as Paris, and – hopefully – today, in San Francisco. Short of having the athletes themselves boycott the games as they should, I plan to travel, go mountain biking, hike and work around my house instead of watching the 2008 Beijing Olympics of Commercialism.
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