First Rights: Genocide Olympics: Bush’s moral blindness

When Steven Spielberg finally resigned as artistic director to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, the filmmaker of "Schindler's List," and the founder of an oral history by Holocaust survivors, said: "I find that my conscience will not allow me to continue business as usual. My time and energy must be spent not on Olympic ceremonies, but on doing all I can to help bring an end to the unspeakable crimes against humanity that continue to be committed in Darfur (whose benefactor is China)."