GOODY TWO SHOES: SF Opens Its Golden Gate To The Genocide Olympics

 

Columnist Debra Saunders notes that notwithstanding San Francisco’s “self-righteous City Hall has made it its business to tell the rest of the world how to live,” the city will host an Olympic torch event on April 9th – the only city in North America to do so -  because “Mayor Gavin Newsom argues that the Olympic torch "transcends politics." She thinks San Franciscans should protest this hypocritical hooey:


With the Chinese coming to town, the supes are in a difficult position. As the city is poised to play host to pre-Games festivities, they passed a richly deserved resolution bashing China's mistreatment of Tibet, its support of genocide in Darfur and association with North Korea's regime. It was a well-deserved slap at China, just as the giant seems within grasp of global respectability.


China deserves thousands of protesters lining the streets of San Francisco and rallying in public squares in peaceful protest against these abuses under the mantle of groups such as the San Francisco Bay Area Darfur Coalition, the Falun Gong, Burmese American Democratic Alliance (BADA) and Committee of 100 for Tibet. And that's for starters. …


I don't like that the Olympics Committee chose Beijing as a host city. That was wrong, but it's done. Now the best outcome would be if San Francisco can show the world a city that can harbor vigorous dissent -- without turning into a lawless zoo.


Saunders also gives House Speaker Nancy Pelosi props for her “long-standing opposition to Chinese human-rights abuses.”

Posted by The Stiletto at March 31, 2008
Categories: Goody Two Shoes
 

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