The China Oylmpics will be another Berlin 1936, a propaganda pageant for a bunch of dictators more interested in their own personal power than freedom for their own people. Let's not fool ourselves though. It's not just a handful of thugs who rule China. They couldn't overlord the country without millions of cogs in their wheel who support them.
If we do not boycott the China Olympics, the question arises as to if not now, when do we have the fortitude to publicly show China that enough is enough? Private diplomacy won't work. For the rulers of China, everything dear to them is done in secret. They couldn't care less about what is said in private. China can throw barbs about 19th century imperialism at us if we tell them the Olympics is persona-non-grata but most importantly the peopl eof Burma and Darfur will at least know that someone gives a damn, and cares enough to tell China that we will no longer stand for business of mass murder as usual.

If Olympics were awarded based on good behavior by the government of the hosting country, the USA should not have had the 1904, 1932, 1984, or 1996 games. China may be friendly with the Myanmar dictatorship, but USA trained brutal dictators in its School of the Americas in Florida and its CIA helped install them into power through coups like the one that overthrew Guatemala's elected government. These US-trained and supported dictators slaughtered civilians for decades in America's 'backyard'. Listing individual abuses of power and human rights abuses committed by the USA since its founding and continuing on today would take an encyclopedic volume and not to be attempted here.