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• Silence here on HZ about the Olympic shame, I mean flame. - Jacob - 4/9/2008 7:06:13 PM
  • Let the Games end - Fox - 4/10/2008 5:09:13 PM
  • IOC Chief speaks to the issue. - TAFKASE - 4/10/2008 3:43:49 PM
  • re: Silence here on HZ about the Olympic shame, I mean flame. - REB - 4/10/2008 2:16:54 PM
    • Yes - TAFKASE - 4/10/2008 2:24:45 PM
      • Maybe a few athletes when they win their medals will refuse to wear them... - TAFKASE - 4/10/2008 2:30:06 PM
        • I see Burma has already been forgotten - Socrates II - 4/10/2008 2:53:31 PM
          • China has a role to play with that one too. - TAFKASE - 4/10/2008 3:02:30 PM
  • Communist countries and the Olympics - azstrummer - 4/9/2008 8:38:45 PM
    • Just posted - azstrummer - 4/10/2008 3:45:39 AM
      • Interesting concept - TB - 4/10/2008 6:17:08 AM
        • re: Poster children - Fox - 4/10/2008 5:19:35 PM
          • Doesn't really answer my question. - TB - 4/10/2008 6:23:36 PM
        • re: Interesting concept - REB - 4/10/2008 2:26:02 PM
          • because it's easy - azstrummer - 4/10/2008 3:42:03 PM
        • Hint: It has to do with the labor union constituancy - TAFKASE - 4/10/2008 1:41:28 PM
    • Great thought regarding Carter. - Bowser - 4/9/2008 11:09:48 PM
      • So Tiananmen Square, 1989, was just a 'bump' in the road for Red China? (n/t) - Jacob - 4/10/2008 1:33:46 PM
        • Show me a government that doesn't react with force to the threat of overthrow. (n/t) - Bowser - 4/10/2008 4:25:27 PM
          • So the police in Selma were justified? - TAFKASE - 4/10/2008 4:44:24 PM
            • Just where did that statement talk about right or wrong, good or bad? (n/t) - Bowser - 4/10/2008 5:36:23 PM
    • There is NO Tibet. - Lee - 4/9/2008 10:42:59 PM
      • There was no Austria, either, between 1938 -1945. (n/t) - Jacob - 4/10/2008 1:35:08 PM
        • Austria willing joined with Germany. - Lee - 4/10/2008 5:02:27 PM
      • There's a Tibet like there is a Texas. - Bowser - 4/9/2008 11:11:48 PM
        • Tibet had bad karma. - Lee - 4/10/2008 1:35:34 AM
          • I do have to agree with you that Tibet would have been taken over by the Soviets had the Chinese not done so. - TAFKASE - 4/10/2008 1:45:01 PM
            • And your sources for believing that? - Bowser - 4/10/2008 5:38:52 PM
              • It's a little more complicated than that. - TB - 4/10/2008 7:05:12 PM
          • Red China wasn't satisfied with just grabbing Tibet, it wants Taiwan, too. (n/t) - Jacob - 4/10/2008 1:38:32 PM
            • Taiwan is Chinese even more than Hawaii is American. - Bowser - 4/10/2008 5:41:42 PM
          • Missed the point. Tibet is a province of China, and has been for a long time. (n/t) - Bowser - 4/10/2008 2:18:25 AM
            • True, that's my point too. - Lee - 4/10/2008 4:42:42 AM
              • People said that about apartheid too. (n/t) - alcaray - 4/10/2008 6:05:15 PM
                • More like polar opposites. - Lee - 4/10/2008 9:52:30 PM
                  • Seems like the and equivalent set of protesters to me, rather than polar opposites. - alcaray - 4/11/2008 4:11:00 AM
                    • Good grief! "the and" should be "an". (n/t) - alcaray - 4/11/2008 4:12:04 AM
    • Jacques Rogge said the same thing! (n/t) - Raoul - 4/9/2008 8:56:51 PM
  • My apologies; I noticed REB's post on this topic down below. (n/t) - Jacob - 4/9/2008 7:08:29 PM