Re: This disaster and the olympics-

"Raymond" <niday@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On Thu, 15 May 2008 23:16:34 -0700 (PDT), anjet9899
> <kuisse0002@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>My heart goes out to all those who lost their loved ones - children
>>their parents, parents their babies and children, and all those who
>>lost their homes and livelihood. It is terribly terribly sad. in the
>>"wake" of this disaster - with the olympics only a  few months  away,
>>what is the government's approach to this event.  I hope they will
>>either tone it down drastically or call it off.
>>
>>I hope they won't group their citizens together and get them to stage
>>their cheers and glee for the event. It would be terribly horribly
>>wrong. Cheering in the midst of devastation? I hope not - and how
>>could they.
>
> I'm sure it's quite appropriate to have all athletes as well as all
> people of the world to observe a moment of silence during the opening
> ceremony to pay tribute to those victims of the earthquake. It should
> be a very meaningful way to remember them.
>
> Western hostility toward China won't stop the Olympics. Natural
> disaster won't stop us either. We have been worse. There is nothing we
> can't overcome.

Except Human Rights ! Wouldn't it be great if China decided it wanted to
be 
seen right in the eyes of it's own people versus trying so hard to be seen

as right in the eys of the world.