Posted on 02/15/2008 12:36:06 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Ping!
I don’t like Spielberg on much, but on this one you have to give him credit. What a sham: Olympic Spirit being hosted in a land full of butchering Maoists.
Spielberg did the right thing for all the wrong reasons.
We should all back the Chinese Olympics Boycott.
including the USA olympic comittee.
The Leftist Hollywood jerk found the true about what he supports.
What has this puke done to help the 40 million Iraqis given liberty & opportunity thanks to the USA?
Spielberg would not know Justice if it hit him in his little Lefty Brain...he is just another HH, hollywood hypocrite.
And then tell China we have 3 or 4 Trident subs within 100 miles of their coast.
Cheers!
I still see more bumper sticker saying “Free Tibet” than I see say “Stop Chinese Genocide Enablers in Sudan”.
100,000 Beijing serfs were forcibly removed from their homes, the homes and neighborhoods destroyed, and the serfs given NO compensation what so ever.
100,000+ peasant and agriculture collective famrers and their families lost their water for irrigation this year so the water can be diverted to Beijing so the tourists can drink, and the farmers received no compensation what so ever, and are looking forward to a year without jobs or food to sustain themselves.
Anti sweatshop coalitions believes upwards of 10,000 factory work slaves are being used to produce officially licensed Beijing Olympics 2008 merchandise.
The construction management companies owned by the children of elite Cadre officials are using slave labor to build the hotels the tourists will stay.
Tibet was part of China’s territory since the Qing Dynasty centuries ago. Perhaps the reason the Tibetan exiles demand region’s independence because they reject communism.
How sad, a game which supposed to be politic-free suddenly become a propaganda which Ameircan did the same thing in the past (1980 Moscow remember?).
Using Olympic as a propaganda is really disrespect to the game’s reputation. Ancient Greeks started this game without any politic agenda in their mind even when they’re compete against their arch-foe.
Then I guess the Ancient Greeks will definately roll in their grave for this. The modern people use Olympic as political propaganda.
Let see now, can we sense Ancient Greeks and Pierre de Coubertin anger and disappointment?
If China wants people to stop comlaining about Tibet, let it go, which I sincerely doubt, given China's nature. They love to say U.S. is the imperialist nation. I would say China has been the imperialist nation for more than 2,000 years.
I have a very low opinion of any athlete who would participate in these games, not to mention the hosts.
Sorry. I don’t buy that for a moment. Jimmy Carter’s boycott was a total screwup fiasco. The athletes of that era still talk about it.
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