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Junior Chimp
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« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2008, 04:30:41 AM » |
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Speech in Parliament last week:
Mr FINN (Western Metropolitan) -- Passionate demonstrations against China in London and Paris in recent days and in the United States of America today should come as no surprise. They should have been foreseen by the International Olympic Committee when it inexplicably awarded Beijing the 2008 Olympic Games.
We have been told that China has changed, but it has not. The so-called People's Republic of China today lives as much by the dictum of the evil tyrant Mao Tse-tung that political power comes through the barrel of a gun as it ever has. After the Tiananmen Square massacre we were told China had changed, but it has not. The government of China today is still controlled by the same sort of lying, murdering, bullying old thugs it has always been controlled by since the victory of communism. They are barbarians who oppress their own people in the name of totalitarianism. They hate freedom.
The Australian Olympic Committee should immediately announce the cancellation of the Olympic torch visit to Canberra later this month. If not, the temptation to travel to the national capital to express my own protest may be too strong to resist. This is not about mixing sport and politics; this is about showing our disdain for a totally corrupt regime dripping in the blood of its victims.
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