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The USA should not boycott the Beijing Olympics of 2008 for violation of human rights or other reasons. Boycotts in the past have never worked.

Carter proposed the boycott of the Moscow Olympics in 1980 and even prohibited the sale of Moscow Olympic Materials. The response was that people crossed the border into Canada or wrote to relatives in Cuba and other communist countries [as well as other countries attending the Moscow Olympics] and bought stamps, coins, and souvenirs commemorating the Moscow Olympics in 1980.

There were embargoes against Cuba and North Korea which were an arrangement between the governing elites of those countries and their masters called the Republicans and Democrats in Washington. People who wanted to went to Cuba and North Korea and bought products made in those countries.

China, Vietnam, and even South Africa [as well as Zimbabwe during its period as Rhodesia] had boycotts and people went and consumed their products.

On the human rights issue, the Republicans and Democrats lack the moral fiber to lecture other countries about human rights when they have repressed alternative political parties [such as Libertarians, Greens, and the Constitutional Party], have instituted the Patriot Act [as an instrument of control], and have their supporters directly or indirectly initiating acts of repudiation against those who disagree with them.

Last but not least, it is the athletes and the citizens of the world who suffer from such a one sided move to boycott the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. I will be hearing it hopefully via the shortwave radio on China Radio International.

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