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- w3v3, on 03/17/2008, -61/+321The Olympics are borings as ***** anyway.
- Kronk42583, on 03/17/2008, -20/+215its surprising we haven't seen any official responses to the increasing number of atrocities coming out of china. from filthy air quality, censoring musicians, tibetan riots, rounding up and killing of cats, censorship of news/video web sites... its ridiculous. every new article i read about china makes me want to throw up. this olympics is going to be a mess. and i will make a point not to watch it.
- hiscity, on 03/17/2008, -19/+209 "The sportive, knightly battle awakens the best human characteristics. It doesn't separate, but unites the combatants in understanding and respect. It also helps to connect the countries in the spirit of peace. That's why the Olympic Flame should never die."
– Adolf Hitler, commenting on the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Summer_Olympics - chris9902, on 03/17/2008, -20/+140This has the same ring to it as the 1936 Berlin Olympics. It's a showpiece for a military power.
The international community should not support China in anyway. - Kronk42583, on 03/17/2008, -11/+128as with nazi germany... the feeling that china has any aspirations of peace is absurd. people on digg love to point out scientology's bullying tactics, chinas hypocrisy and censorship makes CoS look like walt disney.
- longman, on 03/17/2008, -9/+63Here's an idea... Stop borrowing money from china. Stop your companys from investing in china.
Sure, its a nice symbolic reaction with the olympics, but that is all it is... - inactive, on 03/17/2008, -8/+60This should not stand from the world community. Where is the ***** outcry!?
The Olympic Rings (Link)
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Origin: Designed in 1913 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the five rings represent the five regions of the world that participated in the Olympics: Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. While the individual rings do not symbolize any single continent, the five colors - red, blue, green, yellow, and black - were chosen because at least one of them is found on the flag of every nation. The plain white background is symbolic of peace. - aidave, on 03/17/2008, -17/+65Can't wait for the 2008 Slavery Games!
- Erect, on 03/17/2008, -4/+47I can't view the link you provided because Wikipedia is censored by the Chinese gov't
- khail250, on 03/17/2008, -2/+40before people start bashing china, lets not forget its the gov't, not the people.. its the same way here in the US, the people are mostly ok but the gov't is the reason the world hates us. i just came back from china, and met the friendliest people i have ever met.. its usually not the people rather the politicians.. Hitler, Stalin, Bush!
- webefools, on 03/17/2008, -9/+44A huge crowd here protesting in front of the chinese consulate here in nyc... i'm going to join them today!
- alex7575, on 03/17/2008, -7/+36Because we shoot protesters on sight?
I agree with you on a certain level, but you can't really compare here. - o0joshua0o, on 03/17/2008, -7/+34Now I feel guilty for playing "Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games".
- satori3000, on 03/17/2008, -7/+34After the Boycott of the Olympics in 1980 for the Russian games after the invasion of Afghanistan it's fairly clear that a boycott really only impacts the athletes. Still, given the massive investment that the Chinese have made into these current games this may in fact finally be a good time to do this if we want to make our displeasure known.
- mjpanzer, on 03/17/2008, -3/+29My girlfriend is in China. Her and her friends have called people in the US to talk about Tibet, and almost every time they bring it up, their phone conversations are cut. She also sent me a pro-tibet link from China, and her e-mail address was suspended FOR A MONTH. I wish I was kidding.
- poidh, on 03/17/2008, -0/+25"On an island"? Dude, they have their own continent down there to play with.
- dizilbdog, on 03/17/2008, -4/+29You know boycotting china and the olympics i'll try, but honestly i've looked around my apt and I don't know if anything is built in America anymore, and that's sort of sad..
- smcnow, on 03/17/2008, -9/+33If you want to do your part, boycott the sponsors (http://www.usolympicteam.com/12956.htm):
The Coca-Cola Company
Atos Origin
The Eastman Kodak Company
GE
John Hancock
Johnson & Johnson
Lenovo
McDonald's
Omega
Panasonic
Samsung
Visa - dartmanx, on 03/17/2008, -3/+27Just because we have issues, means that China is right? The vast majority of Americans have nothing to do with what supposedly happens at Gitmo or other facilities, but you're telling them they have no right to say anything about China.
- inactive, on 03/17/2008, -1/+25September 27, 2002. Cops in riot gear surrounded 650 protesters, me included, in "Freedom [sic] Park". They allowed no one to leave the cordoned-off area. They arrested every single man woman and child in the park. They hog tied us, humiliated us, and threw us onto the cold floor of a gymnasium for 30 hours, denying us bathroom privileges etc. Fortunately, the ACLU sued the Wash DC Metro Police, and the City Council passed a law to protect the rights of free speech in the District of Columbia. Some protesters received $50,000, the rest of us are awaiting the Class Action Suit. Check out the progress on
http://www.justiceonline.org/site/PageServer?pagen ... - ontain, on 03/17/2008, -20/+43I think we need to worry less about China and more about the US and how we're hypocrites as well. And our civil liberties have gone down dramatically but we're more worried about outside forces.
- inactive, on 03/17/2008, -1/+23yeah, ***** digg is always banning people for profanity.
- eddy23170, on 03/17/2008, -1/+21boycot Walmart, in other words...
- rebrad, on 03/17/2008, -6/+25I have to agree. How anyone could want the Olympics to continue either plans to make money off it or just don't care. There are plenty of other venues for an athlete to pursue their goals. The Olympics have just become another marketing tool for the corrupt and the greedy.
- brufleth, on 03/17/2008, -0/+18What in the world are you talking about? So everyone who thinks the Olympics are boring is bad at sports?
There were always a lot fewer people coming out to see track meets than football games. Many of the sporting events in the Olympics are not really typical spectator sports. - morningmatters, on 03/17/2008, -0/+18US and much of the western culture are based on individual well being as supposed to caring for everyone around the world. It's one thing to complain, but another to spend that extra $20 to buy something which is not made in China, which most people do not want to do even if they are against China.
- Raian, on 03/17/2008, -8/+26While we're at it can we please boycott China in general? The US was quick to boycott Cuba at the advice of self interested Cuban-Americans... yet China itself is a far greater economic and military threat than Cuba ever was. Boycott China!
- killerofkiller, on 03/17/2008, -0/+16Beach Volleyball?
- saggygrandma, on 03/17/2008, -1/+17well someone is too ignorant to know what happens outside their trailer park.
- robinator08, on 03/17/2008, -2/+17Walt DIsney was an *****.
- xaxxon, on 03/17/2008, -0/+14I don't care how "skilled" a synchronized swimmer is. It's still synchronized swimming. I can appreciate the time the person put in, but I can also think it's absolutely ridiculous.
- Monk22, on 03/17/2008, -3/+17anything on that list thats less than 30 years old? just because we did doesnt mean we still do it. and it doesnt mean we cant say shooting protesters on sight is wrong.
- bosssmiley, on 03/17/2008, -4/+17Greed + pragmatism. There's too much money to be made in China to blot our copybooks by raising any objections on humanitarian grounds. "Pecunia non olat" after all; the hand holding it might be bloody, but the money's still good.
- badqat, on 03/17/2008, -3/+16Because you're too busy defending the Galactica, right?
- gak001, on 03/17/2008, -0/+13Troll.
- Chupacabra82, on 03/17/2008, -4/+17what a poorly written article.
they pull in obama and talk about him...yet he doesn't ask for a boycott of the olympics. richard gere talked about a possible boycott, but no *****....it's richard gere. other than that, there are some grumblings about a possible boycott, but the headline just comes off as sensationalist. - captainiceman, on 03/17/2008, -4/+16This is for Toronto, who lost the bid to Beijing 5-6 years ago:
***** the IOC.
I'm not hostile, and have love for Chinese, but c'mon, we were highlighting the human rights problems from day one. Serves you right if the boycott screws the Olympics this time around. - WoollyMittens, on 03/17/2008, -3/+15Try reading up on the Olympic games of 1936 before you repeat propaganda.
- MaxPayne3476, on 03/17/2008, -0/+11It's still an island. Just a gigantic one.
Australia is fun but there is that issue of
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But they do have Corey Worthington - x1soundgarden1x, on 03/17/2008, -3/+14My swim coach was on the Olympic team that had to boycott the Korean games. You could tell how disappointed he was as it was his only shot at the Olympics. I think boycotting would be really stupid. The point of the games is to bring countries together DESPITE disagreeing with the politics of competing nations. The West should attend the Olympics because that is the only incentive China has to not be even harsher with the Tibetans right now.
- Phrag, on 03/17/2008, -9/+20"Because we shoot protesters" On occasion yes... Kent State College, May 4th, 1970. Jackson State College, May 14th-15th, 1970. South Carolina State University, February 8th, 1968.
- BN2L, on 03/17/2008, -6/+17From wikipedia,
'If the matter of Tibet's sovereignty is murky, the question about the PRC's treatment of Tibetans is all too clear. After invading Tibet in 1950, the Chinese communists killed over one million Tibetans, destroyed over 6,000 monasteries, and turned Tibet's northeastern province, Amdo, into a gulag housing, by one estimate, up to ten million people. A quarter of a million Chinese troops remain stationed in Tibet. In addition, some 7.5 million Chinese have responded to Beijing's incentives to relocate to Tibet; they now outnumber the 6 million Tibetans. Through what has been termed Chinese apartheid, ethnic Tibetans now have a lower life expectancy, literacy rate, and per capita income than Chinese inhabitants of Tibet.'
REF: Lasater, Martin L. & Conboy, Kenneth J. "Why the World Is Watching Beijing's Treatment of Tibet", Heritage Foundation, October 9, 1987. - inactive, on 03/17/2008, -11/+22Island? It's "roughly the same size as the United States". That's not an island.
http://www.chapelaustralianbiketours.com/bikes.htm ...
I could find something to do to keep me busy down there as well. Some of the finest people I've ever met are from there. - Schmich, on 03/17/2008, -21/+31I like the Olympics, especially when there's someone representing your country or a country with very few resources. Even better when something unusual happens.
Just because half of the diggers failed at sports and were always picked last in school doesn't mean sports/competition is boring "as *****". What's wrong with figure skating? Not enough blood?
But go ahead, digg me down. Truth hurts right? - Ryosen, on 03/17/2008, -0/+10The US influences world foreign policy, it does not control it.
That privilege goes to OPEC. - dartmanx, on 03/17/2008, -1/+10Okay, "America" refers to alot more than the United States. Yes, it's quibbling, but I need to point that out in the context of what I want to say.
The United States is (slowly) shifting from a manufacturing economy to a service based economy. This is because the laws of economics state that the lowest price wins.
The only way we are going to "win" is to encourage a shift of cheap manufacturing from China to another low cost area. Maybe "Made in China" can become "Made in Namibia" (which would help improve the sh*thole that is 90% of the African continent, but thats another story). - emptyinside, on 03/17/2008, -1/+10well, china owns us. who do you think loans our shoddy government money?
- khail250, on 03/17/2008, -1/+9why?
- isaactwito, on 03/17/2008, -2/+10I just got a message from a friend who is in the center of tibetan resistance in india. She said that they already are wiretapping all phones in tibet, so any outgoing calls result in you being raided and probably imprisoned, tortured or killed. According to some of the monks she's talked to shelling has already started in some places in tibet, and if protests aren't completely disbanded by tonight they're going to start indiscriminately killing anyone who is around the protest areas. This news has to get out. It is outrageous that we haven't had any of our politicians stepping forward responding to the outcries of these people.
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 03/17/2008, -2/+10China is now Americas banker. So the US will not do anything to piss them off.
Boycott ain't gonna happen. -
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