On 2/11/06, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any attempt to punish the government of China will, ultimately, punish > the people of China. I have friends who were born in China. They don't > want to see that happen. Nor do I. > Paul
The Chinese government is punishing it's own people as we speak - they execute tens of thousands of dissidents a year. Don't you think that doing something to change either the regime or getting them to soften their policies would be good for the Chinese in the long run? BTW, boycotts ~do~ work. The West boycotted South Africa, and apartheid ended and Nelson Mandell was freed and ended up leading the country. That one worked pretty well. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
