Sign for the boycott Beijing Olympics 2008
I would like to express my indignation at the attribution of the 2008 Summer Olympics to Beijing. Given the massive human rights violations in China, it seems unacceptable to us that the Chinese government be allowed the right to host the world's most prestigious sporting event http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=2285
Of course, China protesting about that is a major case of the pot calling the kettle black. All those millions killed in Mao's "Cultural Revolution"? You won't see that in Chinese textbooks.
But that doesn't change the fact that Japan needs to admit to its wrongdoing in WW2.
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Anonymous2005-04-20 23:15
Regardless of the horse shit with Japan and China atm, the Olympics should under no circumstances be allowed to happen on any Chinese territory.
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Anonymous2005-04-21 18:46
Hahahaha I am sure that many of you wouldn't be saying the same thing if the Olympics were held in America, despite the gross breaches of human rights comitted by the US in places like Central America or Camp X-Ray. Or the illegal and unfounded wars
Every nation and administration has got someones blood on its hands, just as every administration uses propaganda to contol its peoples. China is not really so different
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well, that's true. but china exceeds the limits of cruelty, at least i've never seen dead fetus in american roads, not even people passing trought them naturally.
>>1
I dunno. There were olympic games in the US two years ago. I don't see why we should have double standards when it comes to HR violations.
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Anonymous2005-05-20 2:14
One reason not to have them in Beijing is that in 2004 China has executed more people than every other country combined. About 3500, compare that to the 59 inmates the US has executed that year.
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Anonymous2005-05-21 12:38
In think Beijing have a right to host the Olympics, human rights have been an issue but it's all mostly american propaganda. When was the last time anyone checked the Human rights violation in the US? Or even the war going on in IRAQ for example is a great violation of human rights by the the US. Or How many Mexicans get shot down and killed trying to cross the border each year? Or the injustice of homosexuals in this country? or the none reported rapes of Asian American women or any other races for the matter? There's a double standard here ur not seeing, and it goes on too often and the arugement becomes bias. Besides man, this is sports! sports are inclusive not exclusive.
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Anonymous2005-05-21 13:09
omfg u r all so smrt l1k3 asl? lol
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Anonymous2005-05-22 21:15
>>1
If we are to boycott countries' stuff for human rights violations, we'd have a lot to boycott... I personally don't care. I'm supporting Beijing 2008 because of the positive cultural contact.
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I'm very sad to see this. I'm with Japan in this one. What communist China has done is unfair and lame. What about Tibet? Oh, but that was not "invasion", that was "liberation", according to commies.
And by the way, I don't think Japan was that bad in WW2. What about USA? They were eager to nuke Japan so they get rid of a rival economy. That's worse than anything Japan did in WW2, so I feel sympathy for Japan. I think it's understandable that Japanese politicians visit Yasukuni Temple. America mourns the people who bombed Japan too.
As for education, I can't help but admire countries which still teach the children to love their nation, despite their faults in the past. Japan has a very healthy national values I wish countries like mine, Spain, had.
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Anonymous2005-05-28 9:51
1989: Massacre in Tiananmen Square
Several hundred civilians have been shot dead by the Chinese army during a bloody military operation to crush a democratic uprising in Peking's (Beijing) Tiananmen Square.
what is worse
moscow olympics in 80
or chinese in 08 ?
personally i dont mind
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York!TnfC957mQY2005-06-21 17:43 (sage)
The Olympics doesn't fucking matter! Why do people send strongmen, swimmers and lolis to that silly fucking shit?
I'm going to overthrow the Principality of Sealand. Upon completion, I will establish a new nation-York's Awesome Place. I will then invite scientists to live there. I will then write letters to the Olympic committee to the effect that we are an advanced people.
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Anonymous2005-06-25 15:58 (sage)
Olympics are about the reaching the pinnacle of physical human ability. Is that silly? In any case it has nothing to do with the freedom of the mind.
Our bodies exist only to support our minds. Physical stuff is secondary; it's cerebral capacity, intelligence, speed, imagination, wit and cunning what matters.
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Anonymous2005-07-09 21:32
Our bodies exist only to support our minds.
Not. Where'd you dig up this shit anyway? Are you god or evolution or what?
I love it when people pretend the body and mind are seperate things. A body without a mind is a vegetable, and a mind without a body might as well not exist. There are also plenty of biological reasons to believe that the mind really is a toy of the body. In any case, one is not more important than the other to the individual.
That said, the Olympics are about making money and national penis-waving. Reaching the pinnacle of physical human ability it is not.
I think mind is just an abstraction of what happens in the brain, just like software is for hardware. Of course, it's all down to our brains. However, in my previous post I meant "mind" as in anything related to thinking, and "physical" as any physical exercise that's not to support thinking, like the amazing, incredible ability to kick a sphere making it get into an arc. Moving around and kicking stuff is for monkeys; we can do better.
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Anonymous2005-07-10 21:02
just like software is for hardware.
Sure, and you need both for a functional system.
we can do better
Yeah, but we need our bodies to actually achieve anything. Until we can move out minds between bodies, one isn't more important than the other.
Perhaps you meant to say that our minds have had more effect on the technical progress of society.
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Anonymous2005-07-11 1:02
Some idiot once had the idea that esscence of what we were was now, that it was all set up so that the way things are now could exist, with dualities of male and female and stuff, and din't believe it came out of the random noise, says he thought that the past which led up to now was merely the pattern of what exists now retroactively inventing itself, because time was an abstraction. His basic point is that the reason why the meat reacts like it does is because there's "cosmic energy" as he called it behind every cause and effect in the world. I barely understand what he's talking about, and I think it's BS and that he was a crazy SOB but it's interesting. Make a good fiction story.
your mind is simply a mass of grey matter with an electric charge, that electric charge. a brain without a body is virtuallyuseless because it is like a computer without and disk drives keyboards or a monitor, it runs, but it serves no purpose.
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Anonymous2005-08-08 3:40
south corea > japan > china
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Vinz2005-08-09 6:37
>>40
Hook it up to a generator. Power outage? Not a problem, lemme plug in and provide the power myself. Oh, wait, on second thought there's enough idiots online as it is, all the smarties would probably drop to their level due to the charge we're using up powering the computer. Oh well, fun while it lasted.