Comments on: China’s (well-deserved) Tough Week http://washingtonindependent.com/2298/chinas-well-deserved-tough-week National News in Context Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:50:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: baltimoron http://washingtonindependent.com/2298/chinas-well-deserved-tough-week/comment-page-1#comment-3738 baltimoron Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:22:41 +0000 http://www.washingtonindependent.com.php5-9.websitetestlink.com/?p=2298#comment-3738 This notion of boycotting the Olympics is heaping childishness upon imbecility and authoritarian abuse. Who cares for weeks of spectator sports most viewers will never practice, and the mere viewing of which is even more harmful to health. Why support a movement fueled by corporate endorsement of drugs-abusing spoiled, isolated monsters whose entire lives have revolved around celebrity and abuse of their own bodies? Why support a movement that allows governments to build worthless infrastructure with public money, and then forces tax-payers to alter their life's for weeks to cater to foreigners for the governments' benefit?<br><br>Stop this nonsense! This notion of boycotting the Olympics is heaping childishness upon imbecility and authoritarian abuse. Who cares for weeks of spectator sports most viewers will never practice, and the mere viewing of which is even more harmful to health. Why support a movement fueled by corporate endorsement of drugs-abusing spoiled, isolated monsters whose entire lives have revolved around celebrity and abuse of their own bodies? Why support a movement that allows governments to build worthless infrastructure with public money, and then forces tax-payers to alter their life's for weeks to cater to foreigners for the governments' benefit?

Stop this nonsense!

]]> By: kevinh http://washingtonindependent.com/2298/chinas-well-deserved-tough-week/comment-page-1#comment-3737 kevinh Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:00:49 +0000 http://www.washingtonindependent.com.php5-9.websitetestlink.com/?p=2298#comment-3737 What I don't get is how Spielberg thinks that it was okay to work on the Beijing Games even putting the Darfur issues aside. The massive media censorship, arbitrary arrests of journalists and lawyers, repression of ethnic minorities in Western China, and of course cultural genocide and occupation of Tibet... those weren't enough to garner his concern (or Congress' for that matter)? What I don't get is how Spielberg thinks that it was okay to work on the Beijing Games even putting the Darfur issues aside. The massive media censorship, arbitrary arrests of journalists and lawyers, repression of ethnic minorities in Western China, and of course cultural genocide and occupation of Tibet… those weren't enough to garner his concern (or Congress' for that matter)?

]]> By: baltimoron http://washingtonindependent.com/2298/chinas-well-deserved-tough-week/comment-page-1#comment-2032 baltimoron Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.washingtonindependent.com.php5-9.websitetestlink.com/?p=2298#comment-2032 This notion of boycotting the Olympics is heaping childishness upon imbecility and authoritarian abuse. Who cares for weeks of spectator sports most viewers will never practice, and the mere viewing of which is even more harmful to health. Why support a movement fueled by corporate endorsement of drugs-abusing spoiled, isolated monsters whose entire lives have revolved around celebrity and abuse of their own bodies? Why support a movement that allows governments to build worthless infrastructure with public money, and then forces tax-payers to alter their life's for weeks to cater to foreigners for the governments' benefit? Stop this nonsense! This notion of boycotting the Olympics is heaping childishness upon imbecility and authoritarian abuse. Who cares for weeks of spectator sports most viewers will never practice, and the mere viewing of which is even more harmful to health. Why support a movement fueled by corporate endorsement of drugs-abusing spoiled, isolated monsters whose entire lives have revolved around celebrity and abuse of their own bodies? Why support a movement that allows governments to build worthless infrastructure with public money, and then forces tax-payers to alter their life’s for weeks to cater to foreigners for the governments’ benefit?

Stop this nonsense!

]]> By: kevinh http://washingtonindependent.com/2298/chinas-well-deserved-tough-week/comment-page-1#comment-2033 kevinh Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.washingtonindependent.com.php5-9.websitetestlink.com/?p=2298#comment-2033 What I don't get is how Spielberg thinks that it was okay to work on the Beijing Games even putting the Darfur issues aside. The massive media censorship, arbitrary arrests of journalists and lawyers, repression of ethnic minorities in Western China, and of course cultural genocide and occupation of Tibet... those weren't enough to garner his concern (or Congress' for that matter)? What I don’t get is how Spielberg thinks that it was okay to work on the Beijing Games even putting the Darfur issues aside. The massive media censorship, arbitrary arrests of journalists and lawyers, repression of ethnic minorities in Western China, and of course cultural genocide and occupation of Tibet… those weren’t enough to garner his concern (or Congress’ for that matter)?

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