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  1. Marley B from Vancouver, Canada writes: You reap what you sow.

    I don't believe the games should be boycotted either but the IOC courted this PR/Political disaster by awarding and thus symbolically condoning China in the first place.

    I love it when corporate greed(the Olympics stopped being mainly about amateur sport long ago) gets its hands stuck in the cookie jar and egg on on its face - it's a sweet recipe.
  2. Clark The Mighty from Canada writes: BOYCOTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Don't support the murderous regime who needs, ala Hitler, legitimacy from the in't community to get the support of their people!

    LOOK AT HISTORY!
  3. Clark The Mighty from Canada writes: Olympics shoud go to Toronto!
  4. brokeback mountain from Canada writes: it's funny how the rest of world has to always live up to the western standards..
  5. Kevin Dooley from Canada writes: The Olympics are no longer relevant anyway. It's time for a fan boycott. They award the games to Beijing, they assemble the world's best athletes in conditions where it's too hot and humid and polluted for them to give peak performances, and somehow we're supposed to care? It'll feel like the NHL all-star game. Yawn.
  6. Nelson L from Canada writes: Kevin Dooley.... hot, humid and polluted... sounds a lot like Toronto in the summer...
  7. Justin Campbell from Ottawa, Canada writes: brokeback -- Can you think of a single "standard" that would allow the running over of peaceful protesters with tanks? No?

    Didn't think so.
  8. Dominique Millette from Canada writes: Say what you will about the Chinese, and please do boycott their goods and services. For example, all those celebrities who want to be on the right side of things can stop doing commercials for companies that manufacture their products there. That would include... oh, just about everybody. Meanwhile, there is one event in the entire world where politics are supposed to be suspended, where excellence must prevail, where war has no place. That one event is the Olympic Games. It's been called the Olympic Truce - or ekecheiria. It certainly wasn't perfect, but it's all we've ever had like it. Here's a description from : http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/showcase/abrams3.html "... It meant that the travelers going to the Olympic Games were safe. It meant that the city-state of Elis, the host to the Games, was not to be warred against. It meant that once the athletes and pilgrims arrived, they wouldn't hurt each other, even if they were combatants from warring city-states. The truce protected those who were going to honor Zeus. It didn't protect everyone. Warfare continued but the travelers through warring territories were not harmed. "The ekecheiria was announced by three heralds, called spondophoroi, who traveled from Elis to the various regions of Greece, proclaiming the beginning of the period of truce and announcing the date of the Olympic festival." The site goes on the explain that in history, the truce was often violated - by the Eleans, the Macedonians, the Romans and the Heruli, amongst others. However, in the one short century since the Games were revived, in 1896 by the Baron de Coubertin, "we have cancelled three Olympic celebrations in order to go to war, in 1916, 1940 and 1944. The ancient Greeks celebrated their Olympic Games for over 1100 years without a known cancellation."
  9. Adam Clark from Verdun QC, Canada writes: Boycotting is an appropriate opportunity for the Canadian Govt to stand up to these bullies. Glad that PM Harper has some credibility in facing them. There needs to be an immediate review as to options of having some other sanctioned event that's not in China. This may be the only chance to help the Tibetans. They deserve hepl at least as much as the Afgans. Adam
  10. Concerned Citizen from Vancouver, Canada writes: China has shown it does not deserve the Olympics with its actions in Tibet and its support for thuggish governments like Sudan and Burma, let alone its treatment of its own people and threats to Taiwan.

    The Beijing Olmpics are a showcase for this communist government and is not sport but propaganda. Free peoples of the world- support the Tibeten people and urge your goverment to boycott the Olympics !
  11. Jack Rip from Vancouver, Canada writes: The Olympics are such a crock .... I love the President's comment about "innocent athletes". The athlete-as-a-victim ... that's a new one.
  12. Robert Miller from Habs-ifax, Canada writes: Don't get me wrong.

    I dislike these godless communists as much as the next whacko poster here, but their goods sold at Wall Mart are just so gosh darn cheap...

    If you haven't already, watch the CFB movie, "Manufacturing Landscapes", and you too will realize how much that China owns us!
  13. Allan Martel from Canada writes: Powerless though we might feel in the face of government inaction, if we really believe in doing something then the answer is really rather simple.

    Ignore the Olympics totally. Don't buy one magasine featuring them; don't buy anything with a logo on it; don't watch any of the television including the weeks of preamble.

    When European consumers started boycotting paper and lumber from clear cut forests, multi-national firms changed their harvesting practices overnight.

    You want to put the heat on China? Then make these games the least watched and most ignored in history. Athletes will want to go and governments won't boycott - but millions of fans can vote simply by turning the dial.
  14. Camilo Cienfuegos from Anschlussed Alberta, Canada writes:

    Clark the Righty is correct on this one:

    BOYCOTT the games - BOYCOTT VANCOUVER 2010

    Teach the occupiers of the aboriginals' rightful land a lesson!

    We know the police of this oppressive province have already fatally shot and tasered innocent citizens over the last 2 years....and that's just the incidents that have leaked out of their controlled press....who knows how many more???

    BOYCOTT VANCOUVER
  15. brokeback mountain from Canada writes: maybe you should look at how the natives were being treated here.. how about the head tax on chinese immigrants.. how about importing blacks here as slavery.. of course it is very easy for white americans and canadians to forgive themselves because they can always justify their action! anything that chinese government does is an opportunity for western societies to launch an attack
  16. Robert Miller from Habs-ifax, Canada writes: Whoa -- a political r3volu#ion started on the sports pages of the G&M??

    Well, if the Leafs' nation can be overthrown, why doesn't the "trio" take on China too?

    CONSUMER BOYCOTT OF THE OLYMPICS IN CHINA, ANYONE?
  17. brokeback mountain from Canada writes: just a reminder, to this date, the Japanese government still has not formally apologized for what they did to the comfort women during ww2.. why? because neither the american nor the canadian goverment is putting pressure on japan.. if anything we should have boycotted japanese products first.. but no, we let them build factories for cars here.. so dont get too high brows.. if it is your economy that is going to be affected, you will learn how to be humble..imagine all the Japanese pulling out their invest here if we go boycott them
  18. guy tozer from Saskatoon, Canada writes: I am already boycotting the olympics, and have for years. I just don't watch them or support them, as they are fixed, crooked and only serve the big conglomerates.
  19. Alberto Bayo from Canada writes: Canada and the West should undermine, embarrass, and hobble China every chance we get...Boycott the Olympics
  20. Eric Kirkpatrick from Vancouver, B.C., Canada writes: 'Athletes not to be used as pawns in anyone games', who payed for these athletes. The Taxpayers. For years we supported them, built and maintained their venues. Idolized them and give them millions in post competitive endorsements. If we wouldn't send them to South Africa, then why China. They maintained things would get better if given the games, they lied and heaven help the Tibetans after the games are over and the press/tourist gone home. Give the Chinese a dead line to live up to their part of the agreement and start looking for alternative sights to show we mean it.
  21. Iain's Opinion from Canada writes: Adolph Hitler and the Nazi's hosted the 1936 Olympics.
    Yup, it surely did moderate their politics.
    Surely was a force for good there.
    DUH!
  22. andrei de souza from Toronto, Canada writes: Sport is a unifying force in the world that builds bridges and opens up dialogue between different countries. Boycotts do nothing but alienate and have the opposite effect of the intended purpose.

    If we're really going to go down this ineffective route of boycotts, every type meeting between the world's nations would be boycotted no matter where it was held, save places like Greenland or Tonga.

    Are we going to boycott US Olympics because they torture people? Sounds like a double standard to me. It's a double standard and it doesn't work. It's better to engage nation's like the USA or China in dialogue to put an end to repugnant behaviour.
  23. Mia Culpa from Togo writes:
    The Olympics have become so tarnished in the past few decades. Athletes doping, scandalous, IOC members taking bribes, countries using it to make political statements --- the spirit of the Olympics has become irreparably sullied.

    I think it's fitting that the Olympic games are held in an oppressive, totalitarian state.
  24. Roop Misir from Toronto, Canada writes:
    If China gets out of Tibet, then holding the Olympics will have meaning.
  25. brokeback mountain from Canada writes: boycott chinese, you will have no food, no toys for your kids, no auto parts to fix your car, no clothes to wear, no lights in your house, no tiles to put on your walls, no tv, no wireless routers.. etc go ahead, do it

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