The Chinese government has published a newspaper article informing the president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, that the Chinese people don't want him to attend the Olympic opening ceremonies.China Daily is currently running a headline reading, "Sarkozy Not Wanted at Olympics -- Poll." Below the headline is a story that says a public opinion poll shows the Chinese people overwhelmingly don't want Sarkozy to come to Beijing as a result of his pro-Tibet statements:
Obviously, online polls are always unscientific, and especially so in China, where people know the government is watching their internet usage. But the issue here isn't the voracity of the poll; it's the fact that the Chinese government is politicizing the Olympics by attacking Sarkozy. The International Olympic Committee should tell the Chinese to knock it off.In the survey, 88 percent of respondents said they viewed Sarkozy's remarks as "extremely unfriendly", while an equivalent proportion said they do not welcome his presence at the opening ceremony.
More than 100,000 people have so far taken part in the poll, which is ongoing, Sina.com.cn claimed.
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7-03-2008 @ 4:17PM
johnny said...
In 2007, Cecillia, his then-wife, told Sarko "Don't dirty me [with your p***s]". In February 2008, a visitor in France told him "Don't dirty me [with your hand]". Now, Chinese people are telling him "Don't dirty us [with your feet]".
It is Sarko who politicizes the Olympics by linking his attendance with the Tibet issue.
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7-03-2008 @ 4:26PM
Kris said...
This is going to be going on for a while.
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7-03-2008 @ 11:56PM
kim said...
Talking about and standing up for human rights isn't political. Human rights are the basis for all human life – they are things like the right to life and shelter to the right to the freedom of expression and religion.
Standing up for human rights is standing up for the values enshrined in the Olympic Charter.
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7-08-2008 @ 3:18AM
robert weidenberg said...
How COME you never even mention the Geneva-based UN "specialized" (in THIEVERY) bodies staffed with crooks & criminals, phoneys & parasites, lesbian whores, in short trash people of the basest ILK and funded by the hard-wotking taxpayers everywhere ?
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7-08-2008 @ 4:36AM
robert weidenberg said...
How COME you never even mention the Geneva-based UN "specialized" (in THIEVERY) bodies staffed with crooks & criminals, phoneys & parasites, lesbian whores, in short trash people of the basest ILK and funded by the hard-wotking taxpayers everywhere ?
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