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Plo Koon - Student  |
Hi there, Please join me in speaking out against the Beijing 2008 Olympics. As long as the Chinese government occupies Tibet and oppresses its own people, it does not deserve the honor of hosting such a prestigious international event. Follow this link to sign up: http://actionnetwork.org/sft/join.html?r=g1qsd3M1DBIy _______________ Free Tibet! Click this link,and learn Here too |
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Jacen Aratan - Student |
Politics are always involved, yes; but imo, using the sport to pressure a country, is just wrong, and pretty much blackmailing - no matter what that country did. |
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Plo Koon - Student 
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predator you said my exact feelings. and it does sicken me too how people quickly say war is the only way. _______________ Free Tibet! Click this link,and learn Here too This comment was edited by Plo Koon on Aug 30 2004 10:17pm. |
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Carve - Student 
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The Olympics are most certainly not all about the money. There are government politics involved in nearly if not all of our day-to-day activities, Olympics included. That kept in mind, let's not forget that the Olympics are a representation of what is possible for the world. People representing countries from all around, competing, but showing friendship and admiration for their each other. The Olympics always have been a prestigious event. It blows me away to see that people don't think so. Why don't you try telling the athletes who competed in those games that it's not prestigious. Tell the people who use their Gold Medals to provide services and community development to their homes and bring publicity to human rights and social issues with the fame they've garnered. Just because our media doesn't pick it up doesn't mean it doesn't matter. Also, it's ... sickening, frankly, to see how quickly war comes into this conversation. Believe it or not, conflicts can be resolved without the necessity of mass violence. Attitudes like "such-and-such will not happen without a war" is the reason wars happen in the first place. Now I'm not a pacifist, but neither am I a war-monger. It's just plain depressing to witness the opinions I've seen displayed here so flippantly talking about war - MASS MURDER, for those of you unfamiliar what a war actually means. Sorry if that's blunt but that's the truth. _______________ © |
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Plo Koon - Student
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thats just sad. _______________ Free Tibet! Click this link,and learn Here too |
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Steinin - Student 
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Quote: it does not deserve the honor of hosting such a prestigious international event Since when is the olympics a prestigous event? It's all about money these days. BTW, while we're on the china topic Pregnant Inmate Forced To Undergo Abortion To Be Eligible for Death Penalty in China _______________ 362 Ohi on! This comment was edited by Steinin on Aug 30 2004 10:52am. |
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Jacen Aratan - Student |
If you think China is so bad, then I'm almost afraid to see what you thought of Iraq... It's sports. Making it a political tool is just making it even more embarassing to the roots than it already is. |
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Aron - Retired 
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* thunder strike * |
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Plo Koon - Student
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well the Olympic flag was carried over to bejing.its set in stone now sadly and you know what stuck out,the singers who where singing the chinese anthem where in outfits of the styles & colors of countries they conquered.they're not fooling me,i wonder how many others out there noticed that.I wonder how china's gonna handle all those millions of foreigners milling around  lets see them "control" it HaHAHA!  _______________ Free Tibet! Click this link,and learn Here too This comment was edited by Plo Koon on Aug 30 2004 03:00am. |
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Nero - Student 
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Ofcourse it's true China has commited an horrible crime in Tibet, but even the Dalai Lama (which is like the king and pope of Tibet when it was an independant country) is okay with the Olympic games there. It's horrible and one day Tibet should be a free country again but why would you cancel the Olympic games for it.... edit: Talle is right. edit 2: prodigy is right too _______________ -Nero Quote: Curious, Smartass, what else? This comment was edited by Nero on Aug 29 2004 10:55am. |
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Tallepyon - Student 
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Tibet isnt gonna be freed without a war. This comment was edited by Tallepyon on Aug 29 2004 02:03am. |
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Plo Koon - Student 
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no i havn't been to tibet or china but about 15 monks & a Lama came over from Tibet fleeing for there lives and came and stayed at the campus where my dad is a Philosophy professor (Down the block and across a street) they gave speeches,talks and had many lunches and dinners with us so i know about it.They where the most compassionate,kind and caring people i have ever met. _______________ Free Tibet! Click this link,and learn Here too |
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Nero - Student 
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Plo, a great thing to say these things, but if it would be 8 years earlier it would've actually made a difference...now it doesn't... _______________ -Nero Quote: Curious, Smartass, what else? |
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Plo, have you ever even been to China or Tibet?  |
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Plo Koon - Student
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no no no...NO WAR!I WOULD NEVER WANT WAR! do the exact opposite! cant you see? do it the peacefull way. _______________ Free Tibet! Click this link,and learn Here too |
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Tallepyon - Student 
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feh what do you want us to do go to war with China. They have such a large population it would be so hard to win |
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Plo Koon - Student
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[b]Reports from Beijing indicate that as the city prepares for the games, a large number of people are being forcibly evicted from their homes to make way for city development projects[/b] In March this year, Chinese local authorities and developers evicted hundreds of thousands of homeowners and tenants in Beijing. http://www.studentsforafreetibet.org/article.php?id=329 _______________ Free Tibet! Click this link,and learn Here too This comment was edited by Plo Koon on Aug 28 2004 01:59am. |
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Jacen Aratan - Student |
The Olympics are a farce as it is. And why mix MORE politics into it, than the pretty heavy doze there's already in it? EDIT: Btw, I wouldn't say it's THAT prestigeous - last I checked, Greece was facing profit loss on hosting this thing. But that was more than a week ago. This comment was edited by Jacen Aratan on Aug 28 2004 12:40am. |
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Buzz - Student 
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Countries can always boycott the olympics though. _______________ When you are going through Hell, keep going. -Sir Winston Churchill. Those who seek power and control of others, no matter the level, no matter the intentions, should never be given it. |
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Scythus Aratan - Student 
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Isnt the Beijing 2008 kinda set in stone now? I doubt any other country will want to take it up at such short notice. The would have to build a stadius most likely for it. _______________ Padawan to the great Jacen Aratan! <Setementor> Scythus is a genius! Claimer of the 5000th post in the Count thread [Solitude] scy rocks [Casual] good point scythus, you're really smart |
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Italian Ice - Student 
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this is fourgen politics, i focus on local ones. _______________ It's funny how many people know they have the right to remain silent, yet never do. |
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Plo Koon - Student
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Communisn,China is a Dictatorship they where friendly to try to fool us "americans" to believe that they arent what they do and it looks like it worked on you Leif.The chinese people are good leif,im talking about there govermant!,the people havn't done really anything. _______________ Free Tibet! Click this link,and learn Here too This comment was edited by Plo Koon on Aug 27 2004 05:26pm. |
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Buzz - Student
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Tibet is a region covered mostly by the Himalaya's. China took it over sometime after the communists took over the government and claimed that its part of China. Most in Tibet don't like that fact and you have a lot of others who want China to give up the occupation of the region. They also heavily monitor people who visit the place and what they see and take out. At least they were still doing that a few years ago. We had channel 1 in my high school and they had a reporter go there and their camera and film were confiscated by the chinese before they left. Someone smuggled it out for them though. China has also had numerous instances of human's rights violations over the year's as well. _______________ When you are going through Hell, keep going. -Sir Winston Churchill. Those who seek power and control of others, no matter the level, no matter the intentions, should never be given it. |
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Fire - Student 
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i disagree with that, i do know that chinese are a communist country and their government seems more important than the people themselves, but from what i've seen when i was over there this summer, i was amazed. they're very kind, generous, and awesome, and to not give this thing that they've wanted to actually see in front of their eyes, and hold in their hands, would truly break the hearts of 2 billion peeps. so i say THIS ONE'S FOR CHINA! hallelujah. anyways, there's always the 2112 olympics |
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Plo Koon - Student
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It's a Country Man... A Country with Millions of People. watch the movie Kundun and you'll see some things the 14th dalai lama & the Tibet went went through _______________ Free Tibet! Click this link,and learn Here too This comment was edited by Plo Koon on Aug 27 2004 03:59am. |
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Tallepyon - Student
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ummm arent tibet a set of mountains? arent there like only a few monks that live there? |
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