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Are You Planning to Watch the Olympics?
Artiste:
Merci optom!
I replied to you a very long post, but computor went capute, since it's storming here!
Shortly, I ask you to remember about Greece which came back to democracy peacefully !
Could that not happen in China ?
Au revoir,
hugs!
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: DavidInIndy on July 25, 2008, 04:59:10 pm ---How? How does my watching the Olympics in Indianapolis support Chinese oppression over on the other side of the world? I don't get it.
So you're saying the entire world should tune out the Olympics and ignore all the athletes and their hard work because we are upset with China? China will continue to do what it's doing regardless if I watch the Olympics or not. Like I said, I'm not that important. And besides, perhaps the Olympics will allow China to feel more a part of the international community and cause them to rethink their human rights policies. :)
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if you watch it, the ad rates go up, and the network makes more money, and the Olympic games are more of a triumph for the leadership in Beijing.
I haven't said a thing about the "world tuning out the Olympics". I merely stated that Artiste has a good point about not patronizing the sponsors of the Olympics, that is if you object to the policies of the leadership in China.
Are you genuinely suggesting that the rulers in Beijing will "rethink their human rights policies" based upon a "feeling" from the Olympics? Or are you making a joke?
Did Hitler and Nazi Germany change their policies after all of the good world press they received during the 1936 Olympics?
Artiste:
Merci brokeplex !
You said rightly:
Did Hitler and Nazi Germany change their policies after all of the good world press they received during the 1936 Olympics?
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Even if the USA and other good and free persons went there to those Hilter Germany Olympics games and the black person from USA ran better, Hitler and his thugs still murdered more and more millions and millions of innocent gays, innocent jews, and other so-called unwanted persons !! China did, does and will do more such atrocities because it is a non-respectful regime of human rights in and out of its borders, unfortunately !
So we kiss China now by watching its tortured-like-slaves play at sports ?? That are not free sports, I say !
It will be better to watch the indigenous games August 3rd where free persons play, and other sports games like World swimming, may I suggest, as I boycott the China 2008 Olympics and thier sponsors and the Olympic Committee which accepted China to present it !
Besides, why watch the Olympics when they are anti-gay ?
Au revoir,
hugs!
Artiste:
DavidInIndy, may I ask your ideas on it ? Have they changed and are changing to not watching them, maybe to watch less and less of it ?
Au revoir,
hugs!
Artiste:
No, I will NOT watch the China 2008 August Olympics, since I am for human value because China is not considering human rights having murdered even innocent children in Africa in order to get free oil, having tortured innocent Tibetans, having murdered even Chinsee-born young men in order to get money with their body parts, and continuing such cruelty !!
So, I marked: OTHER !
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