1.0 link 117245 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marty-kaplan/welcome-to-the-orwell-oly_b_117245.html Now that every dissident within a hundred miles of Beijing has been intimidated, jailed or internally exiled; now that the Chinese communist party has shut down formerly legal means of citizen redress, like petitioning the government; now that free assembly has been banned, unsightly small businesses have been bulldozed, hotel computers have been bugged, and the foreign press has been bamboozled, the "quiet diplomacy" favored until this week by President Bush and International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge has given...

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