Why are Freepers Interested in the Chicoms' Olympics? SHOULD we be?

Vanity | 08/10/08 | Mobile Vulgus

[Mobile Vulgus]

So how should Freepers feel about the Olympics? Should we write about it, post about it or covering it in any way?

I feel that every American (including President Bush) that are in attendance at the Olympics are traitors to democracy and civilization.

These commie bastards are our enemies. Each and every Chinese citizen (and I use that term citizen very euphemistically), each man, woman and child are enemies to the USA, the west, and basic civilization. They look at us as enemies and we should return the favor. Look where pretending that "they really don't mean it" got us where it concerns Muslims!

China should be treated as the lepers that they are, not as useful and legitimate citizens of the international community.

We should have, every western nation should have, boycotted these Olympics once the pliable and most likely bribed Olympic Committee chose China to host the games.

But that's just me.

What will be the consensus of our community?

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>Why are Freepers Interested in the Chicoms’ Olympics?

I’m not the least bit interested in the Olympics - they could be in my back yard. If they were, I’d be somewhere else.

[Ronaldus Magnus Reagan]

It’s a disgrace when the Olympics allow such new sports such as walking, kayaking, and beach volleyball while still not allowing a sport such as pocket billiards or any kind of billiards that has been around forever.

[KevinDavis]

I think the Olympics are boring and I won’t watch them until I see football..

[mainerforglobalwarming]

Remember at the last olympics some reporter asked Bush what his favorite events were and he couldn't answer? I guess he's taking a hands on approach to the olympics now, with the great game of beach volleyball as the sport he's focusing on.

[cowboyway]

What olympics?

[mkjessup]

Absolutely NAY.

The Communist Chinese are among the worst oppressors of human rights on the planet. To have awarded Beijing the Olympics in the first place was a betrayal of every standard and principle that the Olympics are alleged to represent.

This is not 1936, when everyone thought it really keen to watch Jessie Owens put the athletic smack down to the huge Third Reich propaganda fest, this is a new century and a new age, and the participation of nations that purportedly believe in democracy puts an illicit stamp of approval upon a regime that would (for example) force the Olympic contestants to undergo forced abortions if they were 'citizens' (i.e. 'prisoners') of the totalitarian dictatorship aka the Chinese Communist Party. Olympic partial-birth abortions anyone? Bullets or scissors?

Furthermore, for democratic nations to participate in this charade provides additional funds to the Communists that will only help them maintain their hold on power. For any free nation that sets aside whatever moral values they have to join this upgraded circus show, they empower the ChiComs and encourage them in their behavior both internally and externally (internally, the continued political repression of any and all dissidents, externally, the continued expansion of ChiCom military influence throughout the Far East, and the eventual absorption of Taiwan against their will).

Communist China continues to represent not only a political and military threat to the rest of the planet, but a health threat as well, due to the wink-and-nod approach of their dictatorship to companies exporting hazardous materials under the guise of 'consumer products' to an unsuspecting and ignorant world population, and their past and present conduct has resulted in the murder of innocent people who made the mistake of trusting products stamped "Made In China".

The Olympics have become the athletic equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize, a geopolitical propaganda fest, pushed and endorsed by leftists and liberals who want to see the moral equivalence game advanced to the detriment of America, and even by conservatives who ought to know better.

So far as the Olympics promoting 'peace and understanding'?

Ask the good citizens of Georgia how they feel about Russian bombs falling during this period of 'peace and understanding', ok?

Our President should be in Washington raising our defcon levels due to this latter post-Soviet aggression by Moscow, not prancing around with bikini-clad volleyball players in a Communist country.

[Petronski]

You want an olympic event made of a sport only played in two nations?

[mass55th]

It’s not the Chi-com’s Olympics, it’s the athletes. And if you chose to boycott every country that you don’t agree with (and there are many), one would never watch an Olympic event ever again. The next summer Olympics will be held in London in 2012. Are you going to complain about the President and athletes attending then because the UK outlaws gun ownership, because they allow abortion, or because they have a large population of Muslims who are pushing for Sharia Law? I could go on and on.

[avacado]

"Always, as in 1936, 1972, 1980, 1984, and that’s just for starters."

Nope. That's not the Olympics. That's jackasses using the Olympics for political purposes.

[avacado]

"Skippy?"

You sound gay.

[Ben Reyes]

“The Olympics have always been about nations coming together for non political reasons to compete their athletes against one another. Bush did the right thing by going and not making the Olympics some dumb political statement.”

I agree with you.

And only a liberal President would make it political. It was Carter who boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

[theDentist]

I’m watching. I’m interested. I think you should try a couple Xanex, stat.

[airborne]

Yea.

I’m set to watch the USA vs. China men’s basketball game, starting in 10 minutes.

I’m smart enough to see through the propaganda and just enjoy my country’s athletes compete.

[airborne]

have a friend competing...stayed up all night watching her event.

Cool! Who is she, and what event is she in?

[Allegra]

It is every American’s patriotic duty to punch at least one Chinese kid a day!

AND take his lunch money. ;-)

[indcons]

Nay, absolutely not.

2008 Peiping Olympics = 1936 Berlin Olympics

Of course, the Bushbots and the slavish pro-Chicom contingent here will disagree (but that’s only to be expected).

[waxer1]

You are absolutely correct. Even though I don’t watch it much, I totally agree with you.

[shadeaud]

Then just don't watch. Sure the Chicoms screwed up the playing of our national anthem, but to me it showed how phony the governments’ ability to be ready for prime time really is. We already know about their treatment of the masses, how they diverted water from the north to ‘’green’’ Beijing and how the air is not polluted with lead and God knows what, but just normal fog like off the coast of Santa Barbara............Beijing is all Hollywood all the time till the games are over and then its’ back to business as usual. Gear up the polluting factories( Walmart has a Christmas deadline to meet). The games (IMHO) are for the athletes who have dedicated their life for these few events. To compete not only with their competitors, but with themselves. Stop looking at the politics and the commercialization. Ignore Lauer and his entourage of ego maniacs. Enjoy the games if you choose, watch Oprah if you are inclined to. The world really isn't all about you or me.

[waxer1]

When the USA entered the stadium friday night they got a wonderful reception by the crowd.