what do you think about the chinese occupation of tibet

[Tracy J]

will you still enjoy watching the olympics in beijing

[Neil]

Originally Posted by Tracy J

will you still enjoy watching the olympics in beijing

I don't think the Olympics should be held in a City with such poor air quality that many of the athletes won't train there, regardless of Politics.

[Eric]

It's like the American occupation of Iraq ... only a lot less disruptive, bitter and violent.

[Eric]

Maybe the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver should be cancelled because Canadians club cute little baby seals to death and are dragging their feet on the settlement of the claims of First Nations.

[Tracy J]

do you think seals are the same as the tibeten people

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Tracy J

do you think seals are the same as the tibeten people

Ok, forget the seals, (unless you are a movie star looking for some cheap publicity) .... but Canada's record in dealing with First Nations people is not a good one. While Canada does not kill aboriginal people in a direct sense, one can argue that their continued inaction gives rise to the outrageous suicide rates, alocholism rates, and low life expectancy on reserves ...I could go on, but you get the picture ... The point I would like to make is that if one applied strict standards of government morality in all cases, not just to the COMMUNIST Chinese then no country would be judged fit to hold the Olympics. And I do believe that the land on which many of the events in the Vancouver Olympics will take place is territory which is claimed by aboriginal peoples. As the modified version of our National Anthem goes: "O, Canada, our home on Native land."

[Eric]

I can't vote in the poll because I'm not interested in the games. But doesn't linking what is happening in Tibet to a sporting event which has travelled too far into commercialism, trivialise the condition of the Tibetan people?

[cashman]

whilst i dont agree with what MANY countries do, do not think Politics n Sport should be linked in any way.

[jaysay]

Whats going on in Tibet at the moment is absolutely terrible, but everything the chinks do politically unacceptable, they treat people like animals. In my view the games should never have been given to china in the first place with their record on Human Rites, but it appears that money speaks louder than words. AGAIN!!!!!!!

[cashman]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Whats going on in Tibet at the moment is absolutely terrible, but everything the chinks do politically unacceptable, they treat people like animals. In my view the games should never have been given to china in the first place with their record on Human Rites, but it appears that money speaks louder than words. AGAIN!!!!!!!

i can agree they should not be given to such places, but fact remains this has always been the case, so will it stop me watching em - NO.

[garinda]

China have been abusing human rights protesters in Tibet for over fifty years.

I hope the West take some action.

I'll still watch the games, nothing has really changed, except the protests have become more visible, and more violently quashed, because of the forthcoming Olympics.

[MargaretR]

There is such a huge population in China that individual human rights are disregarded and lives are expendable.
It is a society akin to that of an ant hill or beehive, which western societies have difficulty in understanding.

I wouldn't have been watching the Olympics wherever it is held because it has become too influenced by politics and drug abuse -so there wasn't a voting option for me.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

I wouldn't have been watching the Olympics wherever it is held because it has become too influenced by politics and drug abuse -so there wasn't a voting option for me.

There wasn't a suitable voting option for me either.

I will be watching, but I do care.

[steeljack]

Don't think there is any oil in Tibet so not really bothered
In my opinion the Olympics have become way to big and are just an extension of each countries foriegn policy, time they (the summer games) were moved back to a permanant site in Greece .

[cashman]

Originally Posted by garinda

There wasn't a suitable voting option for me either.

I will be watching, but I do care.

agree, so as the choice was not there i voted dont care.