OFF TOPIC - The IOC sucks.

[Phoenix-D]

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Yet, in the most bizarre twist of all, most of the 'white middle-class' population think they live in a democracy!

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That would be because most are idiots and/or do not care about the political system. Never was set up as a democracy. Democracy, like communism, appears to be one of those systems that might work in small communities but falls flat on it's face in large ones.

Lucanos

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The difference between the chinese and you, in this sense, is that they know they live in a dictatorship.

You don't!

You think your country is "the free world", don't you?

I'm sorry to tell you that EU propaganda against the US is saying something else. Most Swedish and Danish citizens I know think that the US is alot WORSE than sovietunion ever was. You US citizens (as I refuse to call you "Americans") have no idea.

On the other hand, I can't say I blame you for beliving that your country is a free one. The propaganda in the US is so intense.

Whenever I see the newspaper here in Sweden or in the UK - G. W. Bush looks like a moron. They prefer to publish pictures where he's got stupid expressions.

When I came to the US (A couple of months ago - I have cousins there) the pictures of Bush in the newspapers where totaly different, he looked alot smarter and somewhat cool in his trenchcoat and hat.

Human rights? What's with vietnam? Was that a humane thing to do?

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First, Vietnam. Happened in the 1960s, early 70s. If you can bring that up, I can bring up France executing people right up to 1977.

Second, the death penalty. China excecutes a lot more people than the US does, and for lesser crimes. Not all US states allow the death penalty, and McVeigh was the first one to be federally exceucted in quite a while, I think.

Third, the papers- I'm curious, where was this? Local papers here gennerally do not show ANYTHING in a good light in their editorial comics. Heck, today's was a Chinese-looking guy in a suit with IOC on it, saying "We have no political repression, we merely outlaw unauthorized "issues advocacy"

That's actually a dig at the IOC AND a local Senator, John McCain, who constantly tries for "campaign finance reform", which appears to be mostly making lots of complicted rules so you need to pay lawyers just to campaign.

I'm also trying to figure out why a lot of people seem to think their local news is the only word. You called the EU news propaganda along with the US news, but then you go on to take their viewpoint!

Phoenix-D

[This message has been edited by Phoenix-D (edited 15 July 2001).]