Riots in Tibet

[Strangelet]

I'm with chuck and m.g.


While I don't like the IOC, the games should have always been a politically neutral entity or not exist at all, because I thought the whole point was to have something that would be politically nuetral so as to counter balance the heavy bloody rest of international relationships. I honestly didn't think the olympics were meant to be reducible to a physical display of spoiled teenagers with overbearing parents, but a way of opening up a safe conduit for international communication.

Otherwise, I agree, it should be just scrapped because who the fuck cares about synchronized swimming anyway?

So I am happy for the tibetans, the sudanese, and the chinese students getting the attention they deserve, I just think its folly that the torch run had to be what everyone decided to pin their symbolic rallying point around.

And like m.g. said, there's probably a good number of people who would want to argue, whether right or wrong, that american action in Iraq is enough moral justification to boycott our shit next time.