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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 06:41 AM
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Bring Tibet to the 2008 Olympic Games
Edited on Thu Dec-13-07 06:50 AM by GoddessOfGuinness
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 07:08 AM
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1. How about the IOC ban China from the games until they free Tibet?
Boy would that piss our future masters off!
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 11:39 PM
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4. That would thrill me no end...
But I have a feeling they never will. I know I won't be watching the Olympics this summer.
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Dhalgren Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 08:37 AM
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2. Is there anything that you can think of that would make China give
up Tibet? Tibet is now part of China. Period. The US will never give up any of its territory and the UK will never give up Northern Ireland and China will never give up Tibet. It would take a major war to take Tibet away from China - and we can't even take Afghanistan away from the Taliban...
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 11:35 PM
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3. Who'd have thought that England would relinquish her colonies?
The fact that the odds are against Tibet's people being free should not stop people from supporting their liberation from oppression.
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