Comments on: China and Tibet: Will Athletes Desert the Olympics http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/03/14/china-and-tibet-will-athletes-desert-the-olympics/ The blog of the mystery writer, screenwriter and CEO of Pajamas Media Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:23:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Consumeripedia http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/03/14/china-and-tibet-will-athletes-desert-the-olympics/#comment-93347 Consumeripedia Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:44:19 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/03/14/china-and-tibet-will-athletes-desert-the-olympics/#comment-93347 The Olympics are just entertainment. If you want to influence China, hit them in their pocketbook and stop buying Chinese goods. Please explain to me why anyone voluntarily gives their money to the Chinese? The list of wrongs they're involved in is endless: communism, Darfur, slave labor, thousands executed each year, political prisoners, Tibet, catastrophic pollution, organ harvesting, Burma, tainted exports... The Olympics are just entertainment. If you want to influence China, hit them in their pocketbook and stop buying Chinese goods. Please explain to me why anyone voluntarily gives their money to the Chinese?

The list of wrongs they’re involved in is endless: communism, Darfur, slave labor, thousands executed each year, political prisoners, Tibet, catastrophic pollution, organ harvesting, Burma, tainted exports…

]]> By: ldt http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/03/14/china-and-tibet-will-athletes-desert-the-olympics/#comment-93346 ldt Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:01:26 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/03/14/china-and-tibet-will-athletes-desert-the-olympics/#comment-93346 PR China has so much blood on its hands and it amazes me how oblivious and or quiet the western progressives are about this. There are big simularities between what's happened in Tibet and what went down last summer in Burma (which everyone has forgotten about). The difference is that in Tibet PR China is directly involved not acting through a proxy. \ A Burmese friend of mine noted with some bitterness that now people may boycott the Olympics where they wouldn't do it for Burmese blood. (The Burmese blame the Communist Chinese for supporting the Junta and putting the original "revolutionaries" in place) Meanwhile people protest "Bushilter" and so forth. Bizarre. PR China has so much blood on its hands and it amazes me how oblivious and or quiet the western progressives are about this. There are big simularities between what’s happened in Tibet and what went down last summer in Burma (which everyone has forgotten about). The difference is that in Tibet PR China is directly involved not acting through a proxy. \

A Burmese friend of mine noted with some bitterness that now people may boycott the Olympics where they wouldn’t do it for Burmese blood. (The Burmese blame the Communist Chinese for supporting the Junta and putting the original “revolutionaries” in place)

Meanwhile people protest “Bushilter” and so forth. Bizarre.

]]> By: Lightnin' Hopkins http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/03/14/china-and-tibet-will-athletes-desert-the-olympics/#comment-93345 Lightnin' Hopkins Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:45:02 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/03/14/china-and-tibet-will-athletes-desert-the-olympics/#comment-93345 The Olympics in general have become something of a joke in the last few decades - with the doping and bribing scandals, etc. It might be time to discontinue them once again until a later, more appreciative era. Major world events may take care of that anyway - not that I'm hoping for it, but it feels more like 1939 out there every day. Maybe Pres. Bush should have boycotted, maybe not - I know I wouldn't have objected. Seems he has bigger fish to fry anyway. In a time of climate change hysteria it is fitting that the Games are being held in a place absolutely choked with pollution. Maybe the enviro-zealots can focus on China for a while and admit that the U.S. is actually doing pretty well. Yeah, right. Right after they congratulate us for restoring the marsh that Saddam drained in Iraq - not to mention thereby preserving a culture that would have disappeared along with the wildlife. That was two for the price of one on the progressive feel-good scale - yet the last time I checked Bush was still the Devil, and America, you guessed it: still sucks. The Olympics in general have become something of a joke in the last few decades – with the doping and bribing scandals, etc. It might be time to discontinue them once again until a later, more appreciative era. Major world events may take care of that anyway – not that I’m hoping for it, but it feels more like 1939 out there every day.

Maybe Pres. Bush should have boycotted, maybe not – I know I wouldn’t have objected. Seems he has bigger fish to fry anyway.

In a time of climate change hysteria it is fitting that the Games are being held in a place absolutely choked with pollution. Maybe the enviro-zealots can focus on China for a while and admit that the U.S. is actually doing pretty well. Yeah, right. Right after they congratulate us for restoring the marsh that Saddam drained in Iraq – not to mention thereby preserving a culture that would have disappeared along with the wildlife. That was two for the price of one on the progressive feel-good scale – yet the last time I checked Bush was still the Devil, and America, you guessed it: still sucks.

]]> By: Captain Hate http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/03/14/china-and-tibet-will-athletes-desert-the-olympics/#comment-93344 Captain Hate Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:00:22 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/03/14/china-and-tibet-will-athletes-desert-the-olympics/#comment-93344 Although I agree with srlucado, Nazi Germany wasn't impeded one iota by hosting the games. Yes Jesse Owens (who I once met; very nice person) provided a feelgood moment that ended up being nothing more than that. The games are a total sham that never live up to the ridiculous hype. That the Berlin games went on after the palis murdered the Israeli athletes tells you all you need to know about the underlying integrity of them. The way they bankrupt countries, the IOC should be a branch of the World Bank. The only smart thing Carter did in four years was refuse to participate in the Moscow games; Bush should do likewise but he won't. Too bad. Although I agree with srlucado, Nazi Germany wasn’t impeded one iota by hosting the games. Yes Jesse Owens (who I once met; very nice person) provided a feelgood moment that ended up being nothing more than that.

The games are a total sham that never live up to the ridiculous hype. That the Berlin games went on after the palis murdered the Israeli athletes tells you all you need to know about the underlying integrity of them. The way they bankrupt countries, the IOC should be a branch of the World Bank. The only smart thing Carter did in four years was refuse to participate in the Moscow games; Bush should do likewise but he won’t. Too bad.

]]> By: srlucado http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/03/14/china-and-tibet-will-athletes-desert-the-olympics/#comment-93343 srlucado Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:58:05 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/03/14/china-and-tibet-will-athletes-desert-the-olympics/#comment-93343 The Chinese no doubt want the Olympics to be a showcase that boosts their global prestige, but I think it could become a fiasco. All the Olympics might accomplish for China is to let the world see what an ecological, political, and humanitarian nightmare their nation has become. The Chinese no doubt want the Olympics to be a showcase that boosts their global prestige, but I think it could become a fiasco.

All the Olympics might accomplish for China is to let the world see what an ecological, political, and humanitarian nightmare their nation has become.

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