What benefit is brought by boycotting the Games?
NOTHING
there is Zero Benefit, we tried Boycotting Moscow and they boycotted us and it achieved absolutely nothing, only to destroy the dreams of athletes who spent many years working and dreaming about this chance only to have it wiped away by some A-hole politicians
I love how all these FreeTibet hippies couldn't even find Tibet on a map when asked by a news agency. Nobody real gets the issue behind Tibet, we see some distorted Western view point from CNN/Fox but none of us are exposed to the other viewpoints, their Chinese claim has been going back 700 or so years and nobody would aver address the benefits of their Confucianist, Spock like philosophy on how the needs of the few out weigh the needs of the many.
I think the biggest issue behind this Tibet BS is commie phobia. Mexico saw hundreds of its people gunned down before the games yet nobody batted an eye lid, South Korea was under martial law and people were even happy to turn up for Korea and Hitler's games
-read "IBM and the holocaust" for an insight to the US 1930s, not only did you have crazy stuff like racial segregation but you had twisted political stuff going on
communism was seen as a bigger threat than Hitler dictatorship in fact a lot of great American people like Ford, Lindbergh done business with these A-holes because they liked making money and hated commies more than Adolf. The roots of the cold war are there long before Korea or Vietnam, the roots go way back to the 30s and even before. Today the coldwar mentality continues as Kosovo breaks from Serbia or Putin and Bush go head to head politically etc. Modern China bashing is another continuation of this cold war mentality. China has stated it will not give up Tibet, pushing them, a nation with MIRVs into a corner would be one of the dumbest things ever.
One question that really needs to be asked is how the hell would putting an un-elected A-hole like the Lama back in power make Tibet democratic....maybe it would make it as good as Iraq-Democracy !!. Like that place is doing so fine, and our hawks will claim the surge is working out just fine with our Marines stretched near breaking point and another 12 US troops severely injured yesterday from insurgent attacks
Yes China is a messed up nation, its got huge problems and a really bad human rights history. But why are we getting the other side of the story from a pretentious A-hole like the Dalai Lama, the man is certainly not holy and can be best described as a fraud selling some distorted version of Buddhism. For many years Hollywood and its moronic voices like Richard Gere have been trying to paint some warped picture of a perfect little spiritual kingdom for these lovely people in the Mountains. But the truth is much different, for the ordinary Tibet living in the Lama's kingdom was one of the closest things to hell on Earth, other than a few elite religious lunatics living up the good life Tibet sucked for the ordinary Tibetan dude. The Lama used to have children mutilated as punishment and his business deals were not much different from the former slave owners of the Confederate South. When China gave the Lama a good kick in the pants, did he stay and fight until he won ? No he chickened off like the coward he is, leaving the ordinary Tibetan to deal with the shit left behind and to have a few of his elite trained in terrorist activity by the CIA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOhDBo6x2ZY
peace loving, non-violent ?
