OFF TOPIC - The IOC sucks.

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Re china and olympics, death penalty, communism & democracy

China getting the olympics is a double-edged sword.

firstly they won't people to crack down on the protestors as harshley as the world's media spot-light will be on them and belive me the protestors are going to make the most of this fact.
With many chinese protestors comming into the country as spectotors, you think the handling of the recent anti-capitalist riots were bad, when live ammo was used, China is alot of things but they are not **STUPID**.

Remember China lost the 2000 bid, because of bribery and the fact that countries like Britain after voting made it clear, that their criteria for voting for Australia had nothing to do with merit.

Oh yeah and regarding the death penalty, China asked America (sorry) the US, to stop executing criminals with the mental age of children.

Shame, how can any country justify that position!


(I am not chinese, and belive communism is flawed, I also reject capitalism)*

*I will relate an incident from my school during history class, when we covered communist as an idelogy the teacher after explaining communism asked, people what was good about it/what would make it a success and the kids rolled off a list of points.

Then she asked what was bad about it & why would prevent it from working.

The whole class went quite.
I though about it for a while and started grinning, she asked me what was so amusing, I replied "INTELIGENCE".

She asked me to explain, I said anybody was was smarter in a communist system would find a way to cheat the system.

All it would take is one person who was both smarter and willing to cheat the system and the ideal of every body contributing according to his ability and receiving according to its need could not be achieved.

If many people did this the system would collapse, great in theory, but unworkable once the numbers get large.

The same hold true for democracy, where the ignorant, masses who are easy to manipulate decide the outcome of an election / decession making process.