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RE: It's about getting attention, not the Olympics

Comment comment by Eye.Of.Sage on 22 April 2008

There is something you can do about it. Educate people and change people's attitude in the country. The current attitude of America is 'enjoy life to the fullest'. There's nothing worng with that, if our world was utopia. But since it is not, that means while we are still in the race for the top, even when we are at the top.

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RE: It's about getting attention, not the Olympics by Anonymous :: NR0 :: on 22 April 2008

while we are still in the race for the top, even when we are at the top.

In manufacturing we are a long way down from the top and will probably never get much higher. Our manufacturers deserve this in a way since it was mostly their desire to produce things more cheaply overseas that led to those countries learning how to beat us.

Education will help us to understand what is happening to us and it may even help us to claw our way back a little but it won't save us.

Back to the Olympic torch, the subject of this thread.

Surely it will never travel again outside the country designated for the games? It is an appropriate symbol to attack, and too good an opportunity to miss. This time it has made us much more aware of Chinese Atrocities in Tibet, Africa and at home, and less happy about that country becoming an emblem of sweetness and light for the Olympics. For that we are grateful.

Propaganda has always been important for dictatorships, particularly communist ones. I am sorry for athletes who have worked up to a lifetime peak for these games, but we should not have allowed the IOC to take us To China.

Sending hundreds of AK 47s and land mines to Africa to help Mugabe remain in power was just too much. America should be educated enough to see that.