This question is for the London protesters who called for the boycott of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and harassed the torch bearers:
Should the world boycott the London 2012 Olympics because of the killings of innocent Iraqis it’s guilty of?
What if the Olympics were in the US; should we boycott them, hold protests and harass the Olympic Torch bearers, because we oppose the US’ actions in the middle east?
Or should the Olympics be used as a tool to put differences aside and promote constructive dialog?
British(or rather the whole white race) and human rights don’t fit.
Think about the native Americans, African slaves. Opium Wars, etc, the list is too long to post.
It’s ironic that the worst human rights violators in the human history now are trying to lecturing people about “human rights” of the issues they created. (oh yeah, British tried to take Tibet from China Qing Dynasty, in process, they massacred thousands Tibetans, but in the end they signed a treaty to recognize Qing’s rule over Tibet). The Tibet drama you see today is nothing more than political propaganda of the western anti-communist campaign.
As for the Tibet Riot,
Western media are very good at charging Chinese government with “he said”, “she said” type of unconfirmed accuses. Until this day, there is not a single proof of Chinese government opened fire. Or even “violently crackdown”. While we have tons of proof(videos, photos, foreign eye witnesses) that the “peaceful” rioters were burning, killing on the streets. Along with tons of proof that how western media lied intentionally.
Western Media started a propaganda campaign against China since 1949. It is why you don’t really see any positive news about China. Too much biased garbage from news media. People grow up in such environment, and many naturally become China hater.
Some examples of Western Media’s daily sh1t
CNNhttp://img225.imageshack.us/img225/3999/…
Foxnewshttp://img172.imageshack.us/img172/2632/…
BBChttp://img384.imageshack.us/img384/3079/…
Washingtonposthttp://img517.imageshack.us/img517/8959/…
N-TVhttp://img440.imageshack.us/img440/1383/…
RTLhttp://img247.imageshack.us/img247/9251/…
Timeshttp://byfiles.storage.live.com/y1phrrOY…
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Here is your real version of “peaceful” protest.
(looting/burning shops/banks, beating people to death etc. type of “peacefulâ€)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uusi0vxWb…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpuDTit_p…
Do a google search on Qing Dynasty map. Find 1000 of them if you like, you will always find Tibet on China’s map back then. China only lost control of Tibet between 1912~1949 because of civil wars and WWII, and they took it back in 1949 when communists won the civil war.
Also ask yourself this question, why there was never Tibet UN representatives before 1949?
People are fed up with lies from mainstream media, which are really brainwash tools of a few powerful people with political agenda.
What really happened in the past 2 weeks was,
1. Some monks protested on 3/10
2. Protest turned into a violent RIOT on 3/14. Many Tibetans targeted Han Chinese. They beat people up to death on the streets, looted and burned shops owned by Han Chinese. 19 Han Chinese were killed by Tibetans, many hundreds were injured and were sent to hospital.
3. The government did not respond until half a day later (because they were paralyzed due to couldn’t make decision on what to do right way)according to the only permitted foreign journalist.
4. The government send in troops(because there are too few police, and Chinese police don’t carry guns) armed with RIOT GEARs. You could see it in one of the pictures above. Troops/police had to form a shield wall to protect themselves against the stones from RIOTERs.
5. Dalai Lama and his EXILED government all the way from INDIA pulled a number “140 people dead” out of their asses.
6. Western media lied about everything and blame China for everything…as usual.
7. Ignorant people who can’t even point where Tibet is on the map shouted “FREE TIBET” because they think it makes them cool.
That is about it.
Sure if the world chooses to stand up and protest, but news flash, they wont, because the simple fact is they know what England has done pales in comparison to what China has done. Killing Tibetans for the appearance of ‘peace and tranquility’ is just the tip of the iceberg, they forced millions to move into smaller, less favorable apartments so Olympic venues could be built, some towns now face water shortages because the government is stealing their water to take care of the demand for the Olympics, Factories are being shut down, which means people can’t work, to lower the pollution level so the gov’t wont be humiliated by having athletes fall over from breathing issues. This is not all of it, but this is enough to get started…. So yeah, I think its a good idea to protest the China Olympics. If the world believes Britain is bad, they too have the right to protest that, well unless they live in China… then the government tells them what to do, but you get the point… Somehow I doubt any boycott of the London Olympics will happen, I wonder why.
2012 olympics should not be bycot by the world because they have not killed innocent people but they have been done good thing to killd saddamhussein because he has killd lot od kurdish people by gas so for the vistory it is necessary to win th iraq war so innocent people killing is just insident not premediated done but at china crash tibet so bejing should be banned insted of uk
NOOOO BOYCOTTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the olympics are not about wut is going on in the political world, thts bullshit tht everyone wants to boycot, how would u feel as an athlete??? u would hate the world. All athletes want to do is compete to make their respected nations proud
I believe that Western people have treated the Chinese government unfairly and they have completely forgot their own atrocities:
1. Feb 2006: British soldiers beat and several Iraqis teens and taunting them and the cameraman being quite abusive and uses expletives
2. Supporting the Americans for their atrocities to the Iraqis and Bush caused 4000 military death of his own
3 Support of Israel for their atrocities in Gaza killing many innocent civilians.
Maybe they can’t accept that the fact that Democracy may harm China so they drew sympathy for the jailed traitors and martyrs.
Since British haven’t do so to 2008, it seems unfair to others to boycott theirs.
If the UK is in Iraq then yes.
If you boycott the London 2012 Olympics for the killings of innocent Iraqis in a warzone I think you should just let the London protestors boycott the 2008 Olympics in Beijing for the killings of protestors in a city.
Im boycotting this question. Ironic?