Boycott Beijing Olympics - NOT!
I'm doing a 180 on my boycott strategy for all things Sooey-anti with regards to the Beijing Olympics. My reasoning is thus: If we're going to continue with this now bi-annual charade (and I think the bi-annual part signifies a world at one with getting together in the name of sport in spite of whatever is going on otherwise, which is a good thing) I think we should show solidarity to it and boycott the boycotters of the Olympics until boycotting the Olympics becomes an International taboo. And the sort of thing only pariah countries get up to while legitimate countries deal with their political differences between Olympics.
I mean, let's face it. Everybody who's anybody is guilty of getting to where they are on the back of somebody. At least with the Olympics the most powerful countries in the world can duke it out with each other in sport and occasionally, just occasionally, a gymnast from some tinpot rathole wins a bunch of gold medals and we find out how they trained their Olympic gymnasts to be so damned good that, in spite of no freedom or human rights and oppressed countrymen living in squalor, they beat the Americans at the Olympics.
Priorities, people. And every two years (but especially every four, since the Winter Olympics are most definitely the maiden aunt of the Olympic Games) the Olympics should take priority over everything. Think Christmas, but internationally. Then think Diwali beating Christmas.
