China stuns the world! So lets forget the abuse then??

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China stuns the world! So lets forget the abuse then??

Notice how all the TV companies have started praising China now and are completely overlooking the fact that most of the people that were performing in the opening ceremony were doing so without pay or very little of it and most had no choice. Now they have stunned the world with cheap labour and threats to get it perfect are we supposed to just forget their human rights record? It is a very easy thing for a country to make a massive statement when they use virtual slave labour, that's how communists win wars (don't worry about the body count) When you are stepping on the weak its easy to look good. The shame of all of this is that the Chinese are the best immigrants we have, they come to your country, work hard, never complain and you don't see them stabbing and killing us and each other as they have too much self respect and respect for life in general. Its just a shame that their own government thinks its better to show the world how great they are instead of how decent they are "All lipstick and no knickers". SHAME ON THEM, that money could have fed some of their poor or created some decent housing for them. Still as long as the World can see how great they are, that's OK.

Answer 1

'One World One Dream'  (MY BACKSIDE) - I want no part in China's dream (The dictators at the top taking the p**s out of their own people)...

It's bad enough in U.K and America with our elected dictators!

If I was an Olympic Class Athlete, I would choose not to compete in China; also on health grounds (SMOG).

Answer 2

Change can only be achieved gradually and in the last decade China has come a long way in both economical development and in improving human rights. Do you think the people performing at the opening ceremony in London in 2012 will be paid? No they will be volunteers wanting to play their part - whilst the choreographers, planners and organisers will be earning thousands - so we have our own form of slavery! China is not perfect but the best way to help improve their human rights record is to embrace them not exclude them.  

Answer 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSQnK5FcK...

Answer 4

And how do you know that those people get cheap labor? Or just the top of your head without investigating it.

A Westerner talking about the d**n human rights again:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

The west is trying to force its own [human rights] agenda down the throats of other countries and culture. In recent times we condemn the church for trying to force their morality and beliefs on the cultures of other societies that have their own way of life and social organization. Today, there is a fundamentalist movement called 'human rights' which is a secular religion that the evangelists of democracy are trying to spread to other countries. It is ultimately a insidious religion because like the catholicism of the past, it destroys the indigenous societies it touches. The rampant exercise and exploitation of human rights in the west has already seen the breakdown of many higher values, many more important that the right of the individual to have his own ways. We can't even deport criminals who have committed crimes and may go on to commit more. This is just one example. Yet we want to export this secular religion to others. Shame on us!

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About the stabbings...well there's always criminals in any country.

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I have lived there in fact I was born there. I went there last month. I wasn't oppressed. I was free to say anything; eat; drink; have s*x. I was there for 1 month and no harm done. Only 0.3% is been oppressed.

Answer 5

Have any of you actually been to China to see firsthand these so-called atrocities? I have and there are some things which horrified me but then I've seen on the streets of New York, London and so on. What's the difference? Oh, I'm sorry, New York and London are Western cities hence that is okay, isn't it? Double standards, I think so.

Answer 6

Why.

Answer 7

Στους Ολυμπιακούς Αγώνες

During the Olympic Games - all disputes are set aside so that the athletes may compete against each other to become Olympians.

The Olympic Truce - to be revived in the modern world.

http://multimedia.olympic.org/pdf/en_rep...

The Sacred Olympic Flame - lit first at Olympia 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HjKvkEO_...

When the Games are over, the people may then return to their arguments and debates and their wars.  But until then, let there be peace.

I have noticed that the Russians broke the Sacred Olympic Truce to attack Georgia.  In my opinion Russia should be expelled from the Games.

Classical Olympics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbaji3BDP...

Because the Classical Olympic Games took place in high summer, the athletes had their bodies first oiled and then covered in sand.  Why?  The only way to keep the sun off in those days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7zTJRdXc...

Answer 8

Look it's not just China who abuse it's people all over the world each and every day this occurs, It's just that China have the Olympics!...

How long will China remain in your thoughts when the Olympics finish?...will you still campaign for for the rights of it's people? i doubt your interest will last for more than two weeks....Like all the others who spout off......Arm chair politicians most of you.

Rant over have a nice day.....

Look at Brazil.....India......Asia....take a good look around and then carry on buying your goods that originate from these places....

I see your Blind to the rest of the World.....Or is it you can't take being wrong?. Or even you don't want to look silly in front of your mates in the pub.....

I don't suppose you fight for your country would you?....No i don't think so ....

Judging by your edits your a much bigger idiot than i first thought......i assume you live in the UK?....pretty much the same regime!.

Answer 9

shut up you lefty prat you know nothing. it must be nice to sit on your throne and judge everyone else you hypocrite. God forbid that people do anything for little or no money in this modern money obsessed world. Maybe its called a sense of community and pride or civic responsibility. maybe they consider it an honour to represent there country in front of billions of people in an art form that they are obviously good at!

by the way take some history and economic lessons or read a book or something as every business, economy and country is built on the backs of the working classes. if anything have a go at the big business corporation that sell cheap slave labour produce at the same price as when they were made at british manufacturing costs. raking in all the profits just for themselves. get your own house in order. if you care about these people do them a favour let them fight there own battles rather then chipping in with some half assed diatribe.    

Answer 10

they did not stun me.

Answer 11

Nobody is fooled by these Olympics.

Answer 12

I think you're missing a lot of the multifaceted issue that is China. They have resounding national pride, despite many bad actions by he government. They have been a nation and people that has had a recent history of violence, political upheaval and econmic troubles. They are still struggling to identify themselves and they have the same want to establish themselves on a global scale as any other nation (how could they not want to be heard? They're 1.3 billion people). The olympics are a venue to showcase what is great about a nation; to show the positive aspects of a group of human beings. Politics should be set aside for one week (every four years) as we celebrate the accomplishments, as we would with anyother nation. The rest of the time we can talk about their downfalls. China is rising from these problems (albeit slowly), and to many of the Chinese this is their way of saying China is a nation, not a government.

Answer 13

we don't/can't ignore the obvious.

human rights, animal rights or the disabled chinese, who are FORCED to say they lost their limbs in traffic accidents & NOT under the wheels of a tanks in Tiananmen square,

let alone be allowed to take part in the Para-olympics, for fear they will tell the truth.

The fact that parts of china are suffering a major drought, while their regions are stripped of water to pump, by any means possible into Beijing.

that's if we can dismiss that the birds nest stadium is bathed in SMOG!  The fire-works last night in the opening ceremony adding to the problem.

It's hardly the best conditions for athletes, at the pinnacle of their fitness to be gasping in china in a FALSE display of world unity!

AND who's behind the civil disturbances in Sudan & beyond?

CHINA!

These games are a farce in the making.

So why is the world helping with a wholesale lie?

I don't understand..............