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- 3tcp, on 04/08/2008, -1/+107Just the international part? Scrap it all or keep it all. It shows bad form for the IOC to only carry the torch through areas where people who protest can be shot on site.
- inactive, on 04/08/2008, -0/+51IOC never had what you could call a "good reputation". They've been accused of taking bribes as far as I can remember. And in my case that's pretty far.
Plus it's all a joke anyway. ***** fast food chains sponsoring Olympic athletes... How about a peace concert sponsored by Halliburton? - listrophy, on 04/08/2008, -6/+51The honor of hosting the Olympics, IMHO, should never have been bestowed upon the current Chinese administration.
- SirPopper, on 04/08/2008, -27/+72One World One Dream! FREE TIBET!
- JerodSlay, on 04/08/2008, -10/+40[Boycott]
- Seidoger, on 04/08/2008, -1/+27I'm pretty sure that if the Olympics were held in the USA this summer, there would be protests as well..
- sgyoung, on 04/08/2008, -4/+29WORST OLYMPICS EVER!
- tisk, on 04/08/2008, -12/+37One World, One Dream, One Cliche Statement!
- slstsang, on 04/08/2008, -2/+25Boycott the event?
Check with Nike, Addidas, Reebok and another other TV network for ads space.
Boycott Chinese products?
Please rip out all your major computer components, car parts, clothes, food..etc.
Athletes boycott the event?
Go and ask any 12-18 year old kid out there about politics, what do they know and why are we putting political burdens upon them?
If China really gave a crap about freedom, Tiananmen Square Massacre would not have happen in 1989. Who's had the balls back then to stand up for the college students? NO ONE did. So trash talk all you want behind your computers, what do you really know about China? it's history, people and politics? It's all about money, we are all addicted to cheap labor and profits just like a crack addict. - dreicher, on 04/08/2008, -3/+25Typical. Let's not entertain the idea of punishing China by (as a world community) saying "No games for you!". No, let's get rid of the ceremonial lead-up because we chose an ass-backwards, brutal, communist regime to host the Olympics and money has changed hands. How about the IOC man's up and says, "Dear China, we will find alternate venues for this Olympics. Call us when you get your ***** together."
Wouldn't it be a nice show of world solidarity to break the Olympics up and have events going on simultaneously at venues spanning the globe? - aethelberga, on 04/08/2008, -5/+24The Olympics is barely about athletics. Countires pour as much money as they can into supposed amateurs, purely for prestige on the world stage. If it weren't about politics, they would say the names of the three winners as they mounted the podium, not the person's country.
- MalaysianMafia, on 04/08/2008, -2/+19or maybe, just maybe, we shouldn't be throwing a ***** sports party in a country thats murdering people because of their religious beliefs?
- jonohull, on 04/08/2008, -4/+20The idea of the Olympics used to be friendly competition between countries in the world. Taking away the torch thing isn't going to help the problem of countries or protesters doing stupid things. It's like lowering the standards in school so everyone looks better.
- laserblazer, on 04/08/2008, -3/+19I cheered when they doused the torch. Mighty China couldn't stop it, even with all of their brute force.
- JangoFett, on 04/08/2008, -1/+16I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because uh, some people out there in our nation don't have maps and I believe that our education like such as South Africa and uh, the Iraq everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the US should help the US, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for our children.
- form3hide, on 04/08/2008, -2/+16Maybe when you get out of your mom's basement, you'll be more aware of the world around you. Just because you aren't directly affected by Tibet/China, doesn't mean you're not indirectly affected by it.
- omgTHEPATRIOTS, on 04/08/2008, -4/+18Hmm.... lets see what we are protesting here:
Tibet, Taiwan, Xinjaing, flagrant human rights abuses, exporting poison products, flagrant environmental abuse. In particular, the flagrant environmental abuse should be THE issue because the smog is so bad in Beijing it will be unhealthy and even dangerous for the athletes and attendees. So yes, I do support a full boycott, for the Tibetans and for the safety and health of the athletes.
http://whoisterrorizing.us -- NOT MADE IN CHINA! - crushtheenemy, on 04/08/2008, -3/+17i'm sick of the olympics.
- RudeTurnip, on 04/08/2008, -3/+16The Olympics (TM) is all about big business and really, really, dirty politics and corruption. You might be referring to the original Olympics from a couple thousand years ago.
- trogdor282, on 04/08/2008, -3/+15Olympics is about: (In order of descending importance)
1. Money
2. National prestige
3. Steroids
4. Money
5. Olympic village monkey sex
6. Politics
7. Athletics - TitanX13, on 04/08/2008, -3/+15i thought it was stupid in the first place to have the olympics in china. the host city has extremely polluted.
while i think the olympics and politics should be separetes, but i don't disagree with the protest for china is dispicable for they way they treat their people.
i am disgraced though for what the protesters did. why attack the damn torch or the person carrying the torch? the only thing that will prove is your an *****. - Hetman, on 04/08/2008, -6/+17Does anyone watch the olympics anymore. I do not know anyone who does. If you want to boycott china boycott the goods they sale you not the olympics. Boycotting the olympics is not going to do anything to hurt China. If you stop buying their goods that would help like 1000% more than anything boycotting the olympics would do. I personally wouldnt boycott the olympics but that is because it will not accomplish anything.
- sfacets, on 04/08/2008, -1/+11Don't scrap the relay, scrap the games.
- StaticThunder, on 04/08/2008, -1/+11Free Tibet offer only valid with purchase of Tibet of equal or greater value. Some restrictions may apply. Offer not valid on Tibets made by certain manufacturers. See store for details.
- plarp, on 04/08/2008, -2/+12NO BLOOD FOR STUFF!
- thecheatah, on 04/08/2008, -1/+11I'll TAKE IT!
- SpookyDIGG, on 04/08/2008, -8/+18Every country in the world should stand together and boycott this olympics, and send a proper moral message to China, and if they won't every athlete should
- childoftheatom, on 04/08/2008, -2/+11Hello China? I have something you may want, but it's gonna cost you...that's right....all the tea
- craineum, on 04/08/2008, -4/+13Its sometimes hard to reach people... and I am ok with them using something that almost everyone is familiar with to get attention to something that needs it.
I think the hate/killing/suffering is more important than some sporting event. But that is just me. - kurtwinter, on 04/08/2008, -2/+11The IOC is marking its own death here. Instead of avoiding running the torch through areas of the world that allow freedom of speech, how about putting the games in one of these places instead? Better still, how about just ***** off all together? We don't need to spend any more public dollars, any where, to appease a bunch of overgrown children whose inability to move on from childhood games has become a cultural phenom. Olympic Villages are huge wastes of money that could be better spent on upgrading infrastructure, not building more stadiums.
- gglynn07, on 04/08/2008, -2/+11I lit a cigarette with the Olympic Torch...The flame lives on!!!
- max420, on 04/08/2008, -0/+8I watch winter olympics, because of olympic hockey... but summer olympics are lame. As for boycotting chinese products... Good luck, almost everything is manufactured there.
- itsfini, on 04/08/2008, -1/+9I'm more interested in how farcically it's gone so far - didn't the French extinguish the torch 5 times or something like that?
- IphtashuFitz, on 04/08/2008, -2/+10Tell that to the 1980 United States "Miracle on Ice" hockey team. They were a bunch of true amateurs taken from universities around the country who beat the Soviet team that was "amateur" in name only. The Soviet team was made up of the best players within the Soviet Union at the time, and their sole purpose was to win every hockey game they played. That was their job. If that's not politics then I don't know what is.
- bbqsalad, on 04/08/2008, -4/+12China's government sucks. Worse than our American Gov and that is hard to do.
- laserblazer, on 04/08/2008, -4/+12They punished the athletes by letting a murderous regime host the Olympics.
- Hetman, on 04/08/2008, -7/+15How about we start by freeing Illinois, New York, and California from the christian religious conservatives that is american politics. And then we can talk about tibet.
- IphtashuFitz, on 04/08/2008, -0/+8The Olympics are a truly international event, so boycotting them outright doesn't really punish China but instead makes those countries who boycott it look foolish and only harms their own athletes who trained for years to compete.
Boycotting the opening ceremonies is a much bigger deal politically because it's where the leaders of many nations are expected to be, and it's also meant to showcase the host city. It's also one of the events that's watched live by the most people around the world, so any boycotts there would be very public. It would be a huge snub directed specifically at China to boycott the ceremonies, so that's what I'm really hoping a lot of countries do.
I also hope that all the pressure convinces even one or two of the big corporate sponsors to pull out, as that would also be a huge snub aimed directly at China. Without funding from the sponsors China would have foot more of the bill of hosting the events, so that's a rather direct economic snub that I'm sure would embarrass them. - LokitheComplex, on 04/08/2008, -0/+8Anything that is a multi billion industry is political.
- feonixphlame, on 04/08/2008, -0/+8tell that to the nazis. theyre the ones who came up with the idea for the torch relay to begin with, for the 1936 olympics in berlin.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7330949.stm - bicyclethief, on 04/08/2008, -2/+9If the call for human rights in China is just, why not?
- Chompy, on 04/08/2008, -6/+13Tibet isn't the only issue on China's doorstep. See Darfur, the Firewall, execution vans, etc.
I'm glad they're going to cancel this, and I hope the entire farce is ruined. Screw China, screw the IOC, and screw the Olympics. Any false patina of honor or legitimacy it ever had was destroyed the instant the Games were awarded to Beijing. - artliquide, on 04/08/2008, -0/+7China can do whatever they want. An international organization supposedly committed to peace cannot without many people protesting.
- urothane, on 04/08/2008, -0/+7Was it a childish demonstration for Rosa Parks to sit in the front of the bus? the point of a demonstration is take a stand and say what needs to be said. You need to do it in the most visible way possible, but...and this is a big but...it has to be non-violent or you are no better than the oppressors.
The sad thing is so many of these protests are being conducted in such a way that they cross "personal space" lines. Those being protested knee jerk react to that breach with physical action and it escalates from there. Sometimes the protesters get too physical and even violent. This will not win a battle much less the war on oppression. - StaticThunder, on 04/08/2008, -0/+7And China wasn't dressing its soldiers in orange robes (there's a nice photo of that) for staging to implicate the monks and justify the use of lethal force.
I'm sorry, assembling and rioting are two different things. I wasn't there, but forgive me if I don't take China's word on that. I'm sure the students at Tienanmen were a real danger to life and limb too, and not just an embarrassment to the party. - novask, on 04/08/2008, -2/+9Why the ***** would they? The Germans dint start WW2 or the killing of Jews for 3 more years.
- diggduggDOOM, on 04/08/2008, -0/+6I'd like to hear more about #5.
- bffoley, on 04/08/2008, -2/+8Usually I don't watch the Olympics out of apathy. This year, I'll not watch out of support of the protesters. And apathy.
- artliquide, on 04/08/2008, -1/+7Yeah, that's why I try not to buy anything that says "made in China", besides the fact that they've been cutting corners, poisoning our kids with lead lately. Time to buy from manufacturers in our own countries.
- madhouseradio, on 04/08/2008, -0/+6Its called the Mother Flame and its kept in the Mother Box and fed with Mother Fuel aka Mother Oil (olive oil from Greece)
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