The way people are protesting the Summer Olympics in Beijing is ridiculous. Of course protesting the way the country handles human rights is all good and well, but why would you wait until now? You know since 2001 that the Games are going to be held here. And it's not like Tibet and Taiwan are issues that just happened to pop up four months before the Games.
If you wanted to protest, you should have protested then. They could have still gone another way. Now people have trained years to get to the Olympics, businesses have signed multi-billion dollar contracts for merchandising, people have a vested interest in the running of the Games. And you think any of them will be persuaded to boycott the biggest event of the summer, just because you were to negligent or lazy to do something about it seven years ago?
The genuine nobility of a protest has a day of expiration. That date has passed sometime around the 2002 holiday season. Also, any protest coming less than four months before the start of the Olympics, is just a way for adolescents to plead for attention. There's nothing genuine about it, and I would be hard pressed to be convinced otherwise.
But you can always try.
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