http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008...ympicgames2008

Sarkozy will very likely soon join them.

Wonder how far it will go..outright full boycotts by much of the western world?

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McCain 2008
"We make war that we may live in peace"
"...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever."
"Oderint dum metuant"
"Inartful: clear and straightforward, lacking the artistry that allows subsequent self-refutation and denial."
http://members.cox.net/neddy/bobhope_kerfuffles.wmv
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RnfflRNpwKA
http://youtube.com/watch?v=j-QYIP7o2-A

Bush should boycott the games.

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'May no obstacles arise on the path of enlightenment!
May the enlightened intention of Those Gone to Bliss, past, present and future, be realised,
May I neither be bewildered in migratory existence
Nor I lulled by the solitary quiescence [of nirvana]!
But may I liberate beings throughout the expanse of space!'

- Tibetan Book of the Dead by Padmasambhava

“It is unfortunate that despite my sincere efforts not to separate Tibet from China, the leaders of the P.R.C. continue to accuse me of being a ‘separatist,’“ the Dalai Lama said, referring to the People’s Republic of China.

Why did Hu Jintao have the protest out of control?So many Hui and Han killed, to show the "Dalai Lama's cruelty"?

The CCP dare not talk with the Dalai Lama,for that will incur attention on the autarchic system!

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http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/...s-boycott.html

I'm not sure where I stand on this issue.

On the one hand I'm appalled at the Chinese attempt at eradicating Tibetian culture and identity, by destroying 100's of monasteries and temples and importing 100,000's of Chinese to live in Tibet, and yet I'm tired of the Olympic Games always being exploited politically this way.

The current media pre-occupation with Tibet is being exploited by the US and its allies for propaganda purposes. Expect more of the same anti-Chinese propaganda as the olympic games draw closer and as the Chinese economy continues to grow in the coming years.

I find it just a little bit hypocritical to say the very least that the US junta condemns China for its human rights abuses in Tibet, whilst it simultaneously rewards its client in the Middle East, Israel, for raining bombs down on the Palestinian people. Moreover, I do not see the human rights of the Iraqi's respected in view of the fact that 1.2 million of them have died violent deaths as a direct result of the US-led invasion and subsequent occupation of that country, and where a further 7 million suffer serious injury and some 5 million have become displaced out of a total population of 28 million.

Perhaps it's the case that human rights abuses are only deemed to be human rights abuses if those who are doing the abusing restrict their abuse to their fellow countrymen and women? It doesn't appear to occur to the corporate media that 'we' the West are also complicit in human rights abuses. You see folks, for the media to focus a proportionate amount of attention on OUR crimes serves no useful purpose to official forms of Western power - that's the real issue at hand here.

The media conveniently portray Chinese human rights abuses as the operation of outside external forces (China) attacking and invading the sovereignty of an independent nation (Tibet). However, the reality is that Tibet is a province of China and therefore it is a physical impossibility for one country (in this case China) or any other country for that matter, to INVADE ITSELF. What we don't hear about or see on our tv screens are the thousands of Han Chinese who have had their properties and businesses destroyed by the so-called peaceful Tibetan's.

On the other hand, what we do hear and see plenty of are flag waving xenophobic 'Tibetan nationalists' in Greece and elswehere attempting to prevent the olympic torch being carried along its route. We are also expected to believe that a lone demonstrator was able to break through one of the world's greatest security cordons without the prior knowledge of the Greek authorities. I am not alone in thinking that this was a carefully controlled media stunt.

What all this anti-Chinese frenzy is really about is the attempt by the Western powers and their complicit media lackey's to underscore the potential threat the country poses as a future economic competitor to the US and its allies. I am not saying that China is perfect - far from it - but neither are the human rights of numerous other nations throughout the world - many of whom profess to call themselves 'democracies'. But that fact doesn't incur quite the wrath that China is currently experiencing, and one has to wonder why that is the case, especially at this moment in time?

LOL

Gotta hate the Commies.
Always making the people they oppress out to be the villians.

The "US junta".."xenophobic Tibetans".."media lackey's"..zzz rinse and repeat the USSR propaganda more please.

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McCain 2008
"We make war that we may live in peace"
"...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever."
"Oderint dum metuant"
"Inartful: clear and straightforward, lacking the artistry that allows subsequent self-refutation and denial."
http://members.cox.net/neddy/bobhope_kerfuffles.wmv
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RnfflRNpwKA
http://youtube.com/watch?v=j-QYIP7o2-A

lol, a really constructive response ... ha, ha. People like you and Blade may fool some on this site with your US propaganda but you don't fool me.

Anyone could fool you. You aptly proved that

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McCain 2008
"We make war that we may live in peace"
"...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever."
"Oderint dum metuant"
"Inartful: clear and straightforward, lacking the artistry that allows subsequent self-refutation and denial."
http://members.cox.net/neddy/bobhope_kerfuffles.wmv
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RnfflRNpwKA
http://youtube.com/watch?v=j-QYIP7o2-A

They're probably not going because the Olympics are spectacularly boring. Tibet is just providing a good excuse.

Are you kidding??? In the absence of any tibetan protest, the PRC olympics is just a huge PRC propaganda show. The Olymipics, originating in ancient greece, the world's first democracy, should be limited to democracies.

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Justabubba: "that would include everyone"

http://politicalforum.com/showthread.php?t=27847