In the name of thousands of cats, PLEASE BOYCOTT THE BEJING OLYMPICS!!

[Lady's Human]

By watching from home, you are increasing their market share for whatever time slot they are in. In doing so you increase the ad revenue for the networks who cover the events.


The Olympics site selection comittee is a very well publicized body. The selection process is a competition in and of itself, with the competing cities all showcasing themselves to the selection comittee. When Beijing was selected, it was announced with major fanfare, but nothing was said.......until it was far, far too late to do anything.

[RICHARD]

The chinese governement is screwed....

Check this out.

When you remove an element from the food chain what happens?

In about two months the areas near the sites where the cats are being eradicated will be teeming with......

TONS OF MICE AND RATS!!!! and fleas and all the other funky stuff that goes along with infestations...

Sometimes you just have to let Mother Nature roll up her sleeves to rock and roll.

Remember, you heard it here first!

[kitten645]

I absolutely agree that boycotting everything Chinese is the proper thing to do. You shouldn't watch it on TV either as advertisers pour money into the games to reach their target market. It is naive and unrealistic to say that the sports event and the political/world reality are seperate. China's cruelty towards animals, humans and the Tibeten situation requires economic sanctions. In the end, it's all that makes a difference.

[moosmom]

Shame on the Olympics, and SHAME on the Bejing/Chinese government

AMEN to that!!!

Not watching crew (rowing) will definitely be hard. It's my favorite sport.

[caseysmom]

Okay everyone go ahead and punish the athletes...will you also boycott products from China? Human rights have been a huge issue in China but nobody has had a problem with the huge amount of imports we get from there, its pretty interesting to me. We invaded a country supposedly because of human rights issue but China has gotten off pretty easy treating their own citizens like dirt, its too bad cats have to be killed to wake folks up.

[elizabethann]

This will be the first time in my life that I won't be watching the Olympics. I have no desire to. I would rather watch my Nieces & Nephews during their soccer and baseball games.

[RICHARD]

To expand on what Lady's Human said about the selection committee..

Each city puts together an organizing committee. Usually it's title goes like this....Salt Lake City Olympic Organizing Committee or SLOOC.

The city then hires people to do a presentation and pick out the venues where the events will take place. A bells and whistles tour of the city usually happens and the selection committee are given a VIP tour of the best that area has to offer. Sometimes the area OC tosses in some money, hookers, tickets and lodging to sweeten the pot. If the city needs to construct any venues that is usually a slide show with some kinds of models that a firm will make for the OC.

I seem to remember that some of the SLC people were caught giving the SC bribes to get the games to Utah.
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Even boycotting the purchase of official Olympic products will help.

Each manufacturer has already paid the licensing fee to the BOOC, but there are roylaties that will be paid for each piece they manufacture-and that will hurt.

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Moosmom.
I got to see the rowing and canoeing at Lake Casitas in 84. IT was neat because an American dude won a bronze medal on the last day of competition, that was the first medal of any kind in a zillion years.


Did you see the Oxford/Cambridge race? That was a blast!