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    Posted: 04-Apr-2008 at 16:04
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I'll start.......... Should countries boycott the China Olympics for violations of human rights?
 
I think the merits of the case for doing this outweigh the case against. China's recent economic growth means no pullout from Tibet in the near future for economic reasons. So an Olympic boycott could send a message to the government in Beijing and filter that message down to the hightly propergated Chinese people.
 
 
 
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I do not agree; a boycott endorses the unprovoked terrorist tactics of the mob-for-hire involved.
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In what way can a boycott endorse the Chinese clampdown?
 
 
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'Mob-for-rent' specifically refers to the rabid human-wrongs rioters because, among other savage transgressions, they indiscriminately attacked by-standers, burned schools, hospitals and looted.  As such, a boycott of the Beijing Olympics constitutes a whole hearted endorsement of such terrorist antics. 
 
Analogy: On the same basis as your proposal, I suggest a boycott of London 2012 to protest the illegal war of aggression that the UK has waged and continues to wage in Iraq, inclusive of all ensuing war crimes and crimes against humanity in that theatre.
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Originally posted by Zagros

'Mob-for-rent' specifically refers to the rabid human-wrongs rioters because, among other savage transgressions, they indiscriminately attacked by-standers, burned schools, hospitals and looted.  As such, a boycott of the Beijing Olympics constitutes a whole hearted endorsement of such terrorist antics. 
 
 
You mean like the French, Norwegian, Yugoslav and Czech Resistances in WWII? It can be argued an occupying force, its instituations and interlopers in the occupied country make a ligitimate target.
 
 
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Analogy: On the same basis as your proposal, I suggest a boycott of London 2012 to protest the illegal war of aggression that the UK has waged and continues to wage in Iraq, inclusive of all ensuing war crimes and crimes against humanity in that theatre.
 
I will boycott it, I hope others will join me. For the war on terror, the ridiculous souring costs and I hate sport.
 
 
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What about the vindictive attacks on Muslim Tibetans (whom hardly constitute an institution of Chinese occupation)?  Simple illustration of the mob's theocratic nature.
 
It can be argued an occupying force
 
You just messed up! 
 
No legitimate jurisdiction, international or otherwise, argues Chinese sovereignty over Tibet an occupation.  Furthermore, in Tibet, the local majority's cultural rights remain intact (Tibetan schools teach in the native language) which completely undermines the basis of the mob-for-hire's (followers of a theocratic despot) rationale for violence. 
 
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Random 14 year old and elderly victims of the mob on the street hardly constitute interlopers.
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