chococake
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posted on July 13, 2001 07:20:37 PM new
I don't know, it's a long way off, and I just don't see it happening. Any thing could happen between now and then. I'm glad we aren't going to ban it. It should be left up to the individual athletes as to whether they want to attend.
About those dogs. I saw that story and it made me sick too. They were sure beautiful dogs. When I saw that puppy tugging on the guys shirt wanting to play it made me very sad. My DIL said in Indonesia it was very hard to keep dogs as pets if you had a Chinese as a neighbor. She said they (the dogs not the Chinese, lol) disappeared from yards all the time. Dogs are also thought to be a great aphrodisiac!
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hepburn
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posted on July 13, 2001 07:45:50 PM new
So are Rhino horns. Need a critter's parts to make you "function" better? No sweat. Just go kill it and take its horn.
Makes me sick to even think about it.
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ZilVy
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posted on July 13, 2001 07:59:22 PM new
Too bad, I won't be supporting the Olympics in 2008...my own personal boycot.
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hepburn
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posted on July 13, 2001 08:36:32 PM new
I love watching the olympics. But I think I will have to pass in 2008. Consider it my personal boycott myself.
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gravid
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posted on July 13, 2001 09:37:59 PM new
If there are a lot of TV's not turned on it will be noticed.
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chum
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posted on July 14, 2001 10:21:17 AM new
I think the USA should stay out of it. I would not go to China in a million years. Wait till people sees their menu lol. Cat..Dog..Rat..Snake..need I say more? 
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ziLvY
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posted on July 14, 2001 10:32:33 AM new
Chum if this really comes to fruition you won't have to worry about the menu...McDonalds, KFC and a few dozen other money hungry franchises will be set up with big bucks paid to the Chinese to camoflage
the mystery meat...snake it tastes like chicken....Make that Xtra Crispy! Bleach!
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Zazzie
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posted on July 14, 2001 10:37:09 AM new
If you really want to make a boycott heard--- write to the TV network that has the 2008 broadcasting rights and the companies that are 'Official Olympic sponsors'
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bunnicula
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posted on July 14, 2001 10:37:45 AM new
I don't know. I agree with many in regards with China's human rights policy.
On the other hand, I look at the history of the Olympics. For the original Olympics *wars* were stopped & a truce held for the duration of the Olympics. Bitter enemies competed in peace, upholding the spirit of the Olympics.
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Zazzie
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posted on July 14, 2001 10:51:42 AM new
that's the spin
Berlin
Munich
Los Angeles
Moscow
personally I find the whole 'Athelete as Gods or Goddesses' scenario a might distasteful. Whether it be in the scheme of the Olympics or in other venues.
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Hjw
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posted on July 14, 2001 11:41:45 AM new
The human rights group said that China has executed more people in the last three months than the rest of the world put together in the last three years.
I wonder if the focus on China's human rights will lead to a rethinking of out own problems in that regard.
"Ironically, sports stadiums were the last places where many of those condemned to death were taken, to be subjected to ritual public humiliation in front of large crowds just before being executed," Amnesty said."
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,10488,521701,00.html
Helen
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KatyD
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posted on July 14, 2001 11:56:51 AM new
Bitter enemies competed in peace, upholding the spirit of the Olympics.
Uh huh. Like in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The world KNEW what Hitler was doing, but chose to look the other way, all in the "spirit" of Olympic competition. We're not talking about simple political differences. This has to do with state-sponsored murder of human beings. It's wrong and gives the impression that the international community is willing to look the other way when it comes to basic human rights.
KatyD
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gravid
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posted on July 14, 2001 12:09:09 PM new
Well uh - yes they ARE. Just happened in the Balkans. Sure they are trying some now but they sat and watched them roll in and surround an area with armor and lead away as many as 5,000 unarmed men at a time to be slaughtered like pigs. Did not DO anything watching it happen from binocular distance away, and in survailence aircraft.
Same in Africa. The big powers are very aware from all their intelligence operations of mass slaughter and don't see any compelling reason to stop it.
Not new - long established way of doing things.
Sometimes when you see what happened for example in Somalia you see why they don't whant to get in the middle.
[ edited by gravid on Jul 14, 2001 12:10 PM ]
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bunnicula
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posted on July 14, 2001 01:49:13 PM new
Uhhh...I was speaking of the *original* Olympics. The Olympics we have now were revived after a couple of thousand years of no Olympic games.
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gravid
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posted on July 14, 2001 02:11:55 PM new
Interesting. I bet a lot of people don't know for how many years they went on in ancient Greece and I sure don't know who started them up again. Another thing to search .......
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bunnicula
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posted on July 14, 2001 02:41:52 PM new
The ancient Olympic games lasted over 1,000 years, from 776 BCE to 393 CE.
On June 23, 1894, French educator Baron Pierre de Coubertin, speaking at the Sorbonne in Paris to a gathering of international sports leaders from nine nations— including the United States and Russia— proposed that the ancient Games be revived on an international scale. The idea was enthusiastically received and the Modern Olympics, as we know them, were born.
The first modern Olympic games were held in Athens, Greece in 1896.
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Hjw
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posted on July 14, 2001 02:51:56 PM new
ed. brain glitch
[ edited by Hjw on Jul 14, 2001 03:07 PM ]
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shoshanah
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posted on July 14, 2001 03:56:29 PM new
This was my answer to Zazzie yesterday, on another thread:
Better yet: How will America feel, now that China snubbed their nose at us, by PULLING THE PLUG in the middle of a report...BANNED US from continuing the report... Cute! Real cute!...How they must be laughing right now! I think we got "took"..
Of course, it is not the people...It is the chinese government...still, the moment they geot what they were after, they slammed the door in our face...not good! They did not want our pure eyes to actually SEE the Followers of Fun Gon...(spelling?) setting themselves ON FIRE because of brutality excercised on them...!
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And I still hold the same views today...Good suggestion, Zazzie, about contacting the TV Broadcasting Stations to express our dismay...
Hey, Hepburn...glad to see you. I was just starting to wonder where your were...
Hi, everyone...
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My "About Me" Page
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jt-2007
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posted on July 14, 2001 04:40:50 PM new
I'm going to boycott. I'm not going to go this time.
T
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hepburn
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posted on July 14, 2001 06:59:40 PM new
Hi there Shosh. Im around, but not as often. Work work work, ya know. (Which is a good thing, because my bills are getting paid off super quick...and my owning my own home is in the near future )
But I do like to stop in to see whasssuppp
edited to make sense.
[ edited by hepburn on Jul 14, 2001 07:00 PM ]
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krs
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posted on July 15, 2001 10:36:52 PM new
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