Clamp down

China is clamping down on 'dissidents' for the Olympics which are due to start on August 8, 2008 (08/08/08). By clamping down they mean removing vagrants and other undesirables to anywhere but Beijing. Of course, civil rights groups are up in arms on this latest abuse of human rights.

For the Sydney Olympics in 2000, the Australian government did the exact same thing. For two weeks there were no buskers or homeless on Sydney's streets. They were given a taxpayer-funded holiday to rural New South Wales. And yet this abuse was barely mentioned by any media outlets.

Orwell said something about a nationalist's ability to not only condemn heinous human rights abuses by the 'enemy' but to also completely ignore any abuses committed by their own country.

In other news, one of my recent posts got a very interesting comment. Check it out. I love getting the random intelligent comment.