User: xcrunnin

See jin jing article: http://torchrelay.beijing2008.cn/en/torchbearers/headlines/n214299282.shtml

The olympics are not politics. They are above politics. The olympics give unity to all nations of the world. It is athletics, not politics. It should not be boycotted.

If you agree, then don't go. I could respect that. But if the president, (as Carter did in 1980), makes the US team boycott the olympics, then i will be $%!@ed cause its unfair. Most of the athletes don't want to boycott and forced boycotting is just not right, its not democratic. The athletes trained there entire lives for these olympics and some of them are so crazy that they would do anything to go to them. It will just not be fair to make them boycott.

Even the daLai lama agrees with me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7z_-wqAV2Q

No violence? Do you have any idea what has been happening? The very point of the protest is to disrupt the relay and its torch. On April 7th, in paris, a handicapped women carrying the torch was attacked three times by protesters trying to steal the torch. Jin Jing (the wheelchaired torch bearer) was thrown off her wheelchair and then 3 or 4 men were grabbing the torch trying to steal it from her. On Aprli 8th, in London, there was more violent protesting of people grabbing the torch and trying to blow out the torch with water. On April 9th, in San Francisco. They were trying to disrupt the relay so the guy ran through an abandoned warehouse.

This violent protesting is a disgrace. They are attacking the olympic flame, which is a symbol of the olympics (not the 2008 olympics but the olympics as a whole) and the worldwide unity it has created. They are thieves that beat up handicapped women.

no way is marching band a sport. You play an instrument and move in order to create entertainment. That's art, not a sport.

you call yourself a cross country runner, uhhhhhhhhhh