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Boycott Beijing Olympics
Gilad Nathan
Published: 11.08.07, 15:28
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1. Boycott Olympics at the Consumers' Level
Noolympics   (08.11.07)
How to boycott: Athletes should go to Beijing and win as many medals as possible. Then walk around wearing a "Don't Be Evil CCP" T-shirt. Don't buy Olympics-related commodities. Boycott the companies sponsoring the Olympics. Refuse to go to Beijing. If you have to, walk around wearing a "Don't Be Evil CCP" T-shirt. Save the world, save all Chinese, boycott Beijing Olympic Games, show the world that evil and fake communism should be banned once and for all! For more information for boycotting Beijing Olympics, please visit: noolympics.blogspot.com
2. CHINA BANNED FOR ANIMAL ABUSE
Factors ,   Montreal, Canada   (08.11.07)
www.peta.com proves beyond a doubt China's direct involvement in massive counts of animal abuse in China daily. Web surfers who have visited Peta.com are able to view for themselves the secretly filmed accounts of dogs- cats- racoons and others being skinned alive and bruatly mutilized while fully concious. Anybody caring the slightest about animal abuse and human rights that had any self respect would ban the China Olympic games, stadiums with a presence of less than 20% of foreign visitors would clearly have China respecting human & animal rights. They who support the China olympic games by attending or viewing them on broad casts are promoting human & anima abuse. When the abuse stops peace will take its place and it is up to everyone to do their part and ban the China Olympic games. Show the world that you the reader have the power to better the world, after all demand creates a market so no demand no market its that simple! If you can not torture people & animals yourself don't be a wuss and have someone do it for you, be a man make your mark in this world ban the olympic games in China and create positive change in our world before its too late.
3. sorry but why is it any of our buisness-
yahn goodey   (08.11.07)
about china and its government as long as they are not poisoning us or waging war against us?we cant even handle our own problems let alone chinas problems.i think gwbushes father did the right thing now looking back in retrospect-he got in and out of iraq-weakened saddam so he wasnt so great a threat to his neighbours and left him to run iraq which apparently will only be at peace within itself as long as they have a brutal leader that keeps them subdued-we should mind our own buisness.
4. China and the Third Reich
Juan ,   Spain   (08.11.07)
Comparing China and the Third Reich is complete nonsense.
5. Let's ban the US
(08.11.07)
Comparing China to the Nazi Germany is complete and utter nonsense. Air pollution? Violence? Maybe it's the US that should be banned from attending the Olympics for their refusal to sign the Kyoto protocol and for waging wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? These wars have exerted a heavy toll on the civilian population in those countries, and what their results have been by now???
6. Yeah, sure... you and these guys can go right ahead:
Antonio ,   Haifa   (08.11.07)
http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0900/olympics.html
7. CHINA ABUSES ANIMALS AND ENVIRONMENT
Steven ,   San Francisco   (08.11.07)
AS WELL AS HUMAN BEINGS BOYCOTT THEIR OLYMPICS!!
8. BottomLine:: China biggest occupier. Freedom to Tibet now!
KMR ,   Middle East   (08.11.07)
9. Not logical!
(08.11.07)
Why should the world's athletes pay the price for China's human rights record? And, by the way, Gilad: are you sure YOU are not supporting the Chinese regime . . . . how many products do YOU have in your home, originating from China???? Quite a few, I bet.
10. Israel should boycott the Beijing olympics
Eli ,   Toronto   (08.11.07)
Just like in the past where nations have boycotted an Olympic games in the name of human rights and communism as seen in Moscow, Israel should stand up and say NO. No to the tyrannical rulers of China, No to the facade of human rights that China will display, and a definite NO to intolerance, for it is this same intolerance that Israel, and Jews alike have suffered from.
11. save darfur, congo, tibet...
ted ,   nyc   (08.11.07)
israelis are just SOOO caring it's deeply moving. while you shoot, beat and arrest non-violent Palestinians who are protesting your theft of their lands in Bil'in, does a great hue and cry rise to stop this brutal theft by your own damn army? no, instead you find the countries that actually behave worse than you (a select club, to be sure) and lead the protests against them. Cynical, pathetic, totally transparent.
12. A Wonderful Idea!
Bill Foonman ,   Jacksonville, USA   (08.11.07)
This is a great idea. With its abysmal human rights record never was a country less deserving of hosting The Olympics than China.
13. First Flush Olmert & Livni...Then let's talk about China
Malcolm   (08.11.07)
Israelis have their heads up their butts while their arrogant "leaders" are driving the country into a brick wall at 500 MPH. No mass protests and hardly a whimper. With such apathy at home, who gives a crap at what's happening in China.
14. boycott beijing article
lakshmi ,   Pembroke Pines   (08.11.07)
archaic methods of showing dissatisfaction with monderity only lead to more ill feelings and break down in communication; causing repetitious fear responses to the past. In turn causing more walls to be erecte which only bring the past to the present leaving us with no real future or renewed future. It is through dialogue, sports, shared concerns that we learn of each other that we change our limited mind sets to embrace diversity. Therefore having a new outlook, a new perspective and ultimately new policy changes that are not fear based. To continue to name call each other only leaves each in an incomplete vaccuum; let us globally join with other's and tear down these false walls. This is the way to peace and a life of prosperity. This is the light promised us and that we promised in a covennant oh so long ago. That promise still stands; we must do our part, the light knows no walls.
15. to all
(08.11.07)
there was a huge intelligence artocel in the n.y. times yesterday describing how the chinese governemen is "getting ready for the olympics" 1. they destroyed all the family buildings and apartments of poor people around the site where the olympics village should be built, expelling very poor chinese and their families and children and providing them nothing to live by. they were simply evacuated to nowhere and displaced without any governmental support. 2. the chinese are in a flury to erase all the evidence of human rights abuses and opression and poverty that the olympic tourists will see should they come for the games. in doing so, as a cover up, and needing to appear compassionate and modern, they have displaced thousands of citizens who are too poor and have no voice to resist. where will these people go and how will they survive. the chinese government doesn't care it seems.
16. #2 Factors - Thank you - Also boycott all
Judy Y ,   Los Angeles   (08.11.07)
Chinese products. All of them. And those purchasing garments with fur trimmings that say "artificial fur", don't believe it. It has been found that many of those are actually real fur. What you may be wearing was obtained through the most cruel torture of animals. Boycott China and their products. Write to your governments to stop making deals with the Chinese while looking the other way regarding animal rights.
17. #14 Lakshmi - Yes, why should we criticize tyrants
Jonathan   (08.11.07)
when it's so much easier and rewarding to criticize Israel instead. One day, when you have grown up and educated yourself, you'll feel embarrassment at the words you just wrote.
18. Free Xinjiang! Give Xinjiang back to Uyghurs
enzo ,   london,uk   (08.11.07)
19. #14 lakshmi's HYPOCRISES and LIES know NO LIMITS
CK Tan ,   Singapore   (08.12.07)
her tortuous ramblngs on peace through mutual understanding are a FALSE cover for her UNBRIDLED support for the DESTRUCTION of Israel by any group or nation. She constantly praises the repressive policies of despotic regimes. This is what she recently wrote in another talkback : "Given (Israel's) size, JUST ONE HALF OF ONE HALF OF A NUKE IS ENOUGH TO INCINERATE IT. There is a nuclear muslim power already, in case you have forgotten this" (Note : EMPHASIS is mine) There are many variations of the above post by this charlatan. Readers : beware!
20. The dont care , kings of the medes
jlynch ,   USA   (08.12.07)
They already said that.They will not allow the Roman Greece olympics to control them.Also they know countries are dependent on them and thier oil and money and product flow control.They got the oil, money and products for long time.
21. 5 China now pollutes more than the USA.
freedom ,   canada   (08.12.07)
Now what.
22. 11 Hey Ted how is the Taliban doing in Afghanistan.
freedom ,   canada   (08.12.07)
Another leftist batch of rhetoric. If you want to complain, why don you complain properly and give the Christians their right of return fo the occupied city of Bethlehem.. If you want the facts, make sure you include them all, or dont bother.
23. Some of your argument applies TO Israel:
Olej Gamur ,   Israel   (08.12.07)
"The country openly represses its citizens’ human and civil rights, and exports cheap products of low quality produced by laborers who work for very low wages, while making a very thin layer rich and creating a capitalist oligarchy."
24. Seen and not heard
Zuza the Hedgehog   (08.13.07)
I thought while I was reading this nonsense that it had a sort of other-worldly, schoolboy quality, and when I got to the bottom -- sure enough. Doesn't Ynet know the expression 'Children should be seen and not heard'?...
25. Boycott China - Free Tibet
RJ ,   Canada   (08.13.07)
And boycott Israel and free Palestine. Boycott USA and free Iraq. Send the troops home and close the 700 plus military bases around the world. Look in the mirror, Israel and USA are just as big or even bigger occupiers and terrorists than the Chinese!
26. Boycott Beijing Olympics 2008
Rajagopal. H ,   Mysore - INDIA   (08.15.07)
Isn't time that China''s blatanat Violations of Human Rights In Tibet is told as it is? Is is acceptable for the free world of this century to remain mute witness to China's colonization of Tibet and East Turkmanistan ( uygur)? US and 50 other nations boycotted 1980 Beijing Olympics becauseRussia had ivaded Afghanistan, and 1976, many countries boycotted Montral Olympcs because NewZealand was admitted after it had played with South Africa, a country that was banned by IOC. Why don't the so called free nations apply the same yardstick in respect of China? By participating in Beijing Olympics the free nations that respect UN Charter on Human Rights are virtually endorsing China's blatant Huamnan Rights violations and ilegeal Occuapaion of Tibet.
27. Boycott the 2008 Beijing Olympics!
dscp ,   China   (08.17.07)
http://boycott2008olympics.start-a-petition.com http://www.thepetitionsite.com/4/boycott-the-2008-beijing-olympics http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/BoycottBeijingOlympics http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/BoycottBeijingOlympics The invested interests spend so much national wealth in preparing the Olympic Games to blandish the international, launch so much propaganda about the 2008 Olympics to gloss over official corruption and social inequality! At the last National People's Congress session, China's Wen wowed discretionarily for the "Chinese's enthusiasm for the 2008 Olympics" - ignoring the voices of naysayers. Many feel the GDP comes from inflation. houses and food are all more expensive. China is falling into the capitalism seen in the 1800s, before the October Revolution. Most recent and upcoming college graduates from all over China squash in fancy metropolises, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, etc, while other provinces remain stagnant. Next spring, Chinese colleges and universities expect a record 4.95 million graduates, up 820,000 from this year. More than a million of them will wind up jobless, according to estimates. The proportion of people's salaries to GDP has been falling year after year.The M2/GDP ratio is unusually high, 200% in 2005.All money is the ruling group's money,all hardship is the mass's hardship.Fight ,or die! No participate in the 2008 Beijing Olympics! No watch the games! No buy the mementos!
28. Boycott? thats frigging retarded!
(08.17.07)
29. And the reason it dumb is that china is becoming
(08.17.07)
a trade partner of Israel. Although personaly I think its dangerous to trade with a country that doesnt seem to believe in trademarks. And on top of that is a murderous regime that polutes the world
30. actually comparing china and the third reich is ok,heres why
jack bauer   (08.17.07)
We can all agree that hitler was a bad guy he was responsible for lots of people getting killed We can also agree that Stalin was a bad guy he was also responsible for more deaths then hitler BUT MAO TAKES THE CAKE He was responsible for more people being killed then both hitler and stalin combined! Its just that nobody ever talks about it. And now that they are a trading partner to the entire world, everyone wants to keep that under wraps.
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