links for 2008-04-01

• Pelosi Urges Bush to Skip Olympics Opening – New York Times
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday suggested that President Bush should skip the opening ceremonies of the Olympics to be held in August in Beijing to protest China’s actions in Tibet, its overall human rights record and its trade policies.
  (tags: US opening_ceremony Bush)
• Some Brilliant Foreign Policy from Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi … boycott the Opening Ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics | Scared Monkeys
  This is the best that the Democratic party can think of to deal with human rights violations in China, a boycott of the Opening Ceremonies? Hey, why not do as ex-President Democrat Jimmy Carter did and boycott the Olympics altogether.
  (tags: usa boycott democrats)
• Techdirt: IOC: No Chinese Internet Filters During Olympics; All Other Times It’s Fine
  (tags: IOC internett china)
• is it Lent in here, or is it just me? » Canada should Boycott the 2008 Olympics (Time Immortal)
  To attend would only give legitimacy to the Chinese regime, and to abstain from participation would be a bold statement against oppression that continues even to this day.
  (tags: canada boycott)
• China says boycotting Beijing Olympics would only invite humiliation
  “If any one wants to take the world people’s grand event as a stage for political show, he or she has found a wrong place, and will only ask for an insult.”
  (tags: China)