China's Opening Salvo Against Team Darfur Olympians

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Wednesday August 06, 2008 · 4:07 PM PDT

2008/08/06 · 16:07

Yahoo! Sports carried the story today of Joey Cheek, a former gold medalist speedskater Joey Cheek, whose visa to attend the Olympics in Beijing has been revoked, likely for his outspoken condemnation of human rights violations in the Darfur region of Sudan (and by extension, China's complicity through support of the Sudanese government and its affiliated militias).

China revokes visa of gold medalist, Darfur activist Cheek

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Thursday January 17, 2008 · 8:48 AM PST

2008/01/17 · 08:48

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...

The ACLU's defending Larry Craig's flirtation with Minnesota airport policemen.

"ST. PAUL, Minnesota - In a legal effort to help a U.S. senator, the American Civil Liberties Union is arguing that people who have sex in public bathrooms have an expectation of privacy.

Republican Senator Larry Craig is asking the Minnesota Court of Appeals to let him withdraw his guilty plea to disorderly conduct related to a bathroom sex sting at the Minneapolis airport last year."

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for respecting the crack pipe in your closet and the sex you have in your apartment as a private act in the eyes of the law, but there's a reason it's called a "public" restroom.

It's the 21st Century - Come out already or go on the DL, it's not my place to decide for you - but don't do it in an airport restroom. The ACLU dilutes its effectiveness every time it takes a position this extreme - reminds me of the old Onion headline "ACLU Defends Neo-Nazis' Right to Burn Down ACLU Headquarters."

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Is the ACLU going too far with this one?

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Is the ACLU going too far with this one?

Nah - Give Larry Craig some space and hold it until you get on the plane.

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Definitely. A Public Figure + Public Restroom = Public Sex. Get a room.

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What do I know?

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