Pelosi calls on Bush to boycott Olympic opener

President Bush and U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have both criticized China's record on human rights.

"If freedom-loving people throughout the world do not speak out against China's oppression in China and Tibet, we have lost all moral authority to speak on behalf of human rights anywhere in the world," Pelosi told reporters during a visit to the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in Dharamsala, India, on February 21. "We must follow the purpose of the Olympics and not politicize the games."

OK. HUMAN RIGHTS.

I am all for human rights. But does anyone else smell a bit of historical hypocrisy here?

Why don't we take a trip a down memory lane and look at the human rights track record from other countries that have hosted the Olympics, shall we?

I love the United States. I would love to live in L.A. or Hawaii one day. New York? One of my all-time favourite cities. But here is where I need to say, "Hello! There is a pink elephant in the room, let's not pretend it's not there!"

The US is concerned with China's human rights track record. This, coming from a nation that not more than a century ago embraced slavery. African slaves that were beaten to death, whipped, caned, raped, and even after the civil rights movement, discriminated against...and even till this day, still are in several southern states.

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