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

[K9soul]

Communism is just a form of government and philosophy. It's not inherently evil in itself, it is the people in power that can make any type of government or philosophy "bad" or corrupt. The same could be said for monarchy, socialism, republics and democracy. Do you really understand what the original idea of communist structure entails? It seeks to eliminate classes so that everyone is equal, so that there is no wealthy, middle class, lower class, and poverty. Not that China's communistic government achieves this, but it has nothing to do with the Olympics, the Olympics being a time, as mentioned before, when the differences in governments, faiths, cultures, etc. are to be set aside and they come together in the games in a celebration that is supposed to somewhat reenact the original Olympic games that began in Ancient Greece.

More about communism and its ideals can be found in some summarizing here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism

A lot of people consider our capitalist economy and government to be evil and corrupt too.

[moosmom]

Okay, maybe I'm a little confused. Okay, so I'm ALOT confused. But it DOES burn my a$$ that they are planting a Chinese flag on Mount Everest, a ground which I consider sacred, afterall the people who died trying to summit to the top of the world.

[caseysmom]

Okay, maybe I'm a little confused. Okay, so I'm ALOT confused. But it DOES burn my a$$ that they are planting a Chinese flag on Mount Everest, a ground which I consider sacred, afterall the people who died trying to summit to the top of the world.

Mt. Everest is in Nepal and much closer to China than to us, why would you care? Actually China borders mt. everest.....

[moosmom]

I know all about Mt. Everest. It's the PRINCIPLE of the thing that gets my gord, that's all. I'll shut up now.

[caseysmom]

I know all about Mt. Everest. It's the PRINCIPLE of the thing that gets my gord, that's all. I'll shut up now.

You don't need to shut up now Donna, I am just interested in how you feel, it sounds like you know more about mt. everest than I do, I thought anyone reaching the top puts a flag up there, not sure why they are doing it now except maybe in honor of the olympics.

I am not defending china, they have lots of human rights issues that are horrible, one of them being Tibet. I just don't see the olympics as a venue to protest and thats just my personal opinion.

[kittycats_delight]

not sure why they are doing it now except maybe in honor of the olympics.

IMHO I don't think it has the least to do with with 'in honor of the olymics'. I think it is more a political statement to Tibet afterall Nepal is in Tibet. I think they are using something as 'powerful' as the coverage of the Olympics to say to Tibet 'We own you and we have the world's support too. So what are you gonna do about it?' The fact that the chinese flag would be places is a slap in the face and a kind of 'F You' to Tibet.

Just my personal opinion.

[jackie]

IMHO I don't think it has the least to do with with 'in honor of the olymics'. I think it is more a political statement to Tibet afterall Nepal is in Tibet. I think they are using something as 'powerful' as the coverage of the Olympics to say to Tibet 'We own you and we have the world's support too. So what are you gonna do about it?' The fact that the chinese flag would be places is a slap in the face and a kind of 'F You' to Tibet.

Just my personal opinion.

Nepal and Tibet are two countries. Nepal is not in Tibet.

[RICHARD]

Mt. Everest is in Nepal and much closer to China than to us, why would you care? Actually China borders mt. everest.....

On one of the ridges you can technically have one leg in Nepal and the other in China. And depending how a man 'dresses' he can split his manhood between either.

Climbing to the summit from the north requires a 'passport' and that has to be purchased from the Chinese government. They have been very AH-ish to outsiders wanting to make that trip and the climb.