tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post2656569309721074406..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: China and the OlympicsBryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-55401633899166359142008-02-21T09:20:00.000+00:002008-02-21T09:20:00.000+00:00Made your final comment on Nick Cohen's blog: I wi...Made your final comment on Nick Cohen's blog: I will happily support a boycott of 2008 provided we are consistent and boycott 2012.<BR/><BR/>Being a student of a number of Tibetan Buddhist teachers I have no illusions about the PRC but for Britons to be calling for a boycott of the Beijing games on the grounds of unethical foreign policy seems the height of hypocrisy. Your realist inclinations Chris Dornanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08714964708452438242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-30234078857696049432008-02-20T17:33:00.000+00:002008-02-20T17:33:00.000+00:00While I detest the Chinese regime, an Olympic boyc...While I detest the Chinese regime, an Olympic boycott does not appeal to me. The athletes are the only ones who suffer the consequences, not the governments. Carter's misguided boycott of Moscow over Afghanistan accomplished nothing except guarantee the subsequent boycott of Los Angeles. Rather than a boycott, perhaps the various olympic committees could show some actual nerve and refuse to Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03071928294799081845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-61943774602657281132008-02-20T15:07:00.000+00:002008-02-20T15:07:00.000+00:00I put my small voice to the no olympics 2012 onlin...I put my small voice to the no olympics 2012 online petition but, you know, it's sport and that's more sacrosanct than god in this country.<BR/><BR/>doing the same against china would be hypocritical I think as most of my laptop appear to be made there!Ian russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11106519805045337505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-62414601294752084242008-02-20T12:39:00.000+00:002008-02-20T12:39:00.000+00:00!! 2012 !!To fan the flames of vanity, Of money bu...<B>!! 2012 !!</B><BR/><BR/>To fan the flames of vanity, <BR/>Of money burned in streets,<BR/>Bloated absurd, dictatorial, <BR/>Olympia unwraps her sheets!<BR/><BR/>With monstrous crest and sickening din,<BR/>A badge like Devil’s wings.<BR/>Red Ken s unholy parody<BR/>On all good sporting things.<BR/><BR/>The gruesome spawn of Livingstone,<BR/>To strut and fret his hour.<BR/>Scorn, mock, deride Selena Dreamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-82486504362483915252008-02-20T11:30:00.000+00:002008-02-20T11:30:00.000+00:00An excellent plan - we'll be feeling the pain of 2...An excellent plan - we'll be feeling the pain of 2012 for decades to come, especially in London...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-56531248482622492392008-02-20T09:30:00.000+00:002008-02-20T09:30:00.000+00:00The London Olympics may well prove to be the bigge...The London Olympics may well prove to be the biggest wake ever held and consume the last of the inheritance of empire. Hubris doesn't begin to describe it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-46784996355920210182008-02-20T09:13:00.000+00:002008-02-20T09:13:00.000+00:00Bryan, your last para nails it.Bryan, your last para nails it.Richard Havershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309594787689405779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-71930792971890278712008-02-20T08:57:00.000+00:002008-02-20T08:57:00.000+00:00Where would you put them. Iceland is the only plac...Where would you put them. Iceland is the only place that for the last number of years has not ticked someone or another off. But wait, it will come. The greens are prime to my mind for the roll. Sooner or later they will have a problem with electricity from volcanic activity. <BR/>They really do not like people.Vincehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09442327549417743472noreply@blogger.com