House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a longtime critic of China’s human rights policies, said Friday it would be wrong to boycott the Beijing Olympics.
She said in a statement that while the Chinese government has failed to live up to its commitments to improve human rights conditions in China and Tibet, “I believe a boycott of the Beijing Olympics would unfairly harm our athletes who have worked so hard to prepare for the competition.”
Nancy Pelosi, you, dear woman, are a hypocrite. For years you’ve talked about what you’d like to happen to China and when you can hit them where it hurts the most, their pockets, you decide that it isn’t a good idea.
Why isn’t it a good idea? Because some kid that works in Home Depot might not get to show the world he can run? Are you serious? That’s the reason you don’t want to stand up a country that opens fires on nuns and monks?
“As I said in India last week where I met with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, if freedom-loving people throughout the world do not speak out against China’s oppression in Tibet, we have lost our moral authority to speak out on behalf of human rights anywhere in the world,” she said.
Actually, you lose that moral authority when you refuse to do something, not when you refuse to talk about something. There’s a world of difference between the two.
I’m sure a stern talking-to is just what China needs.
This is what happens when you let the San Francisco liberals run the show. All talk, no action.