hmmm....there are so many ongoing issues such as :

-issues on Tibet (genocide, oppression, forced-chinese influx into Tibetian territories, cultural destruction, & etc.)

-rising tensions amongst the Chinese and the minority ethnics,

-very poor track record on human rights and freedom of the press,

-demolition of homes causing locals to live off the streets just to make way for the game

With these issues, there are rising support for a global boycott on the games to send a message to the chinese govt.
Just like the boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics.....sending a strong message to the Russians after their invasion of Afghanistan.

juz wanna know what u guys think of it....

i can't get involved. look, i can only take you as far as anchorhead.

and did the boycott in 1980 resulted in the ruskies pulling out? i bet you there were many would be olympians who kursed that decisions because they were too old to wait 4 more years because they were used as pawns.

blame the oh-limb-pig board. they should have known this before hand. now only want to kecoh.

yea u got a point that....but if thats the case why not juz boycott the opening ceremony...make them lose face....btu still participate in the games??

so u mean juz leave those issues alone n juz dun bother?

nothing will stop china!!!!

Don't just boycott, tarik balik the games from China.

Let some other country or countries hold it.

This would be chaotic, so the games should be split up to various countries.

Blame China and its poor human rights records for this.

China has been generous
We have big plans
This is the Overlord Tank
It is time
I am big
Are you ready?
What do you need?
Overlord is waiting
Extra large
Yes?
Defenders of peace
The people's army
We are the red guard
Standing attention
Ready for orders
We stand together
Inferno cannons loaded
Hehehehehe
Let's rain some fire
Everything will go up in smoke
When do I get started?
Let's start an inferno
Laptop in hand
I can cripple thier facilities
Batteries charged
Uplink cables ready
There's always a way in
No system is safe


^ guess something

boycotting is a wrong way to go bout this.

We fight for China!

I would support an official boycott but I believe the atheletes should be allowed to participate. Anyone remember what happened to malaysia back in 80? We qualified to the Moscow Olympis by knocked out South Korea but the team never went due to the official boycott. Our team never reached such heights again.

then we should boycott US products as well
they invade iraq
their soldiers violate the human right as well as animal
doesnt that sound familiar?
i don;t think so that people should boycott

just my 2 cents

Maybe we shouldn't boycott. All the athletes at the opening ceremony (except for China athletes of course) should pull down their shorts and moon the Chinese officials.

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Added on April 1, 2008, 6:02 pm

Humans should fight for human rights.

This post has been edited by joe_mamak: Apr 1 2008, 06:05 PM

i think we should. china has little regard for human rights. all they think about is how they can make more money, even if at the expense of their own people.

boycott the o.c.? how to keep it a secret from china?

boycott the games?
"in the 100m dash, in first place... china. 2nd place china. third...china."

clearly there are problems in Tibet and all the players involved are playing many grand games before the Olympics even starts.

i'm only a bystander, and the "force" is not with me and clearly i'm just an ordinary farm boy, besides there are so many better equipped.

boycotting seems like a dumb act to me.

politics shouldn't be mixed with sports.

imagine you're of of the chosen athletes, you have trained like mad. then it goes to nothing when some big belly president of your country boycott the game.

That's not looking at the full picture.

It's about some big belly president that the majority of your country elected who decided to boycott the games as a sign of protest of all the wrong that the country hosting the games had done and continue to do.

Wrong thread.

How was China picked to host the Olympic if their records were not good?

Just like how USA was given the right to host the Olympics, I suppose.

And like the USSR.

Superpowers. They can do what they want and what are you going to do about it?