Masked Olympians Looking Out For Number One
This masked woman is one of the U.S. Olympic cyclists who wore a mask to protect herself from bad air in Beijing.
Will she or any of her teammates speak up for human rights in China?
Don’t hold your breath.
So what if a billion Chinese are not free? This woman does not want to breathe bad air. That’s what important.
Here is the Human Rights Watch report on freedom in China in the context of the Olympics.
Both Olympics In Dictatorship & Democratic Convention In Denver To Have Limited Areas For Protests
Both the Olympics in Beijing and the Democratic National Convention in Denver will have limited areas segregated for protests.
“Security” is cited.
This is not unlike the “free speech zones” set up at the Democratic convention in Boston in 2004.
Another place where the mobility of protesters will be restricted is at the Olympic games in Beijing.
Restrictions in China will be tighter than in Denver. Still, why are Democrats, yet again, accepting limiting protests to a certain area when people in America are supposed to have a right of free assembly? The restrictions in Boston four years ago were odious.
So-called “security” reasons are easily used by both dictatorships and more open nations, to curtail the inherent right of individuals to express their grievances.
Here is Human Rights Watch on the absence of freedom in China.
Welcome To Texas Liberal
Texas Liberal is a blog of politics and political history.
My name is Neil Aquino. Here is my profile.
I can be reached at naa618@att.net.
Additional focuses of the blog are books, art, poetry, personal relationships and, also, sea life and marine mammals.
( The picture above is of the Houston Ship Channel. A narrow channel can lead to a wide sea.)
The signature post of this blog is the Martin Luther King Reading & Reference List. This list is the best of it’s kind on the web.
Another good post is my reciting the words to the Shaker hymn Simple Gifts on Galveston Island, Texas as a ship passes behind.
I live in Houston, Texas and I do sometimes write about political issues in Houston and in Texas.
I also often write about my former hometown of Cincinnati, and about the great beach city of Galveston, Texas.
I define liberalism as a role for government in the economy to help make life more fair, and a broad acceptance of people regardless of who they are.
This is why it says “All People Matter” at the top of the blog.
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Texas Liberal began regular posting on July 25, 2006.
I also blog at the Houston Chronicle as one of eight featured political bloggers, and on Where’s The Outrage? which posts out of North Carolina.
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