More Information on The Chinese Olympic Torch

As it turns out, I ran into some of the folks from the Tibetan Association of Northern California at the north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge yesterday - the tourist crowds were out and the TANC folks were taking advantage of it to get their message out.

Needless to say, the Chinese government has been doing what they do best: lying, reinventing history and justifying their disgusting human rights record and oppression of a sovereign people as an "internal matter". This is a country with nuclear weapons that's been experiencing 10% economic growth for years and has a population 4 times the size of our own. Shouldn't they occupy more space in our headlines than they do?

I've been saying for a while that precisely because of the Olympics, 2008 will be an interesting year for China. The more open the Chinese government is forced to become, the better for everybody.

Anyway, when I said "What should I put on my blog", they said:"Come to the Human Rights Torch on April 8", and protest the Olympic Torch on April 9. The rolls of participating organizations
are growing.

IF IT'S BAD FOR THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT, IT'S GOOD FOR EVERYONE ELSE.