The Chinese Plan To Torture Our Athletes
Meet Liu Qi. Liu has many hobbies, not the least of which is being the current president of Beijing’s Olympic Organizing Committee, being the former Chinese Minister of Commerce and torturing people (from Truthdig):
In an extensive legal opinion, the U.S. District Court in San Francisco determined that Liu was responsible for the illegal detention and torture of two Chinese nationals and a sexual assault against a French woman in China. The two Chinese women later sought refuge in the United States.
I don’t know what’s more appalling, that this guys is the head of organizing the Olympics in Beijing or that senior U.S. member of the International Olympic Committee Anita L. DeFrantz said, “What difference does it make? … This doesn’t tarnish the games.”
No, of course not. I mean, what could people possibly find wrong in a country with an extensive history of human rights abuses hiring a man who was found liable for torture to organize the Olympics? I mean, it’s not like there would be protests or anything.
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1 opinion for The Chinese Plan To Torture Our Athletes
Sean Kelly
Apr 24, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Alejandro: Hi. Sean Kelly here from the other side of b5 at the business channel.
It’s mindboggling that they would put him in charge of the Olympics - like putting Bill Clinton in charge of Secretary’s Day.
But don’t worry! The U.S. has their own plan to torture the Chinese… and it’s a whopper of a plan:
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