apparently people who have the right to free speech should be content with just "having" it and not try to excercise it.

like we want to have our cake and it too? or does the new york times just think that if you live in a capitalist society your purchases come with fine print that then says, ok you can have this commodity on the cheap but in return, you give up any right to challenge the government of the country that produced said commodity.

and oh! the poor olympics. their suffering is so SO much worse than that of Tibetans. I mean, priorities people!

"Millions of people around the world are critical of China for its control of Tibet and Xinjiang as well as its identification with the tribal murders in Darfur. But should the Olympics pay the price for widespread governmental aggression and diplomatic failures? Should people who enjoy free speech put on their sneakers from China, their T-shirts and jeans from China, their ball caps from China, their sunglasses from China, in order to disrupt a runner carrying a torch through a free city?"
-http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/sports/othersports/10vecsey.html?_r=1&ref=othersports&oref=slogin