re: Chinese Soldiers 'Attack' US Citizen on American Soil

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Here's a flash for you Tibet was annexed around 1957, this bitch didn't make a bit of difference now she can go back to her community activism.

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Oh I get it, shut up and sit down. Well, calm down there buddy, you're wrinkling your brown shirt.

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You can have respect for the Olympics and not support genocide.

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Yes, we can't let 60 years of oppression stand in the way of a few frivolous games now can we?
I mean shite let's get our priorities straight.

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Yes, we can't let 60 years of oppression stand in the way of a few frivolous games now can we?

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Perhaps you consider them frivolous because you are a culturally illiterate dolt. Have you ever done anything about Tibet in the past 50 years?

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As a young man, in 1892, Coubertin had the idea of renewing the ancient Olympic Games, which duly took place in Athens in 1896. Whereas his educational aspirations had additionally been confined to France, the success of these first Olympic Games marked, for COUBERTIN, the internationalization of his educational visions, where his main priority at first was the idea of peace among nations.

“Wars break out because nations misunderstand each other. We shall no have peace until the prejudices which now separate the different races shall have been outlived. To attain this end, what better means than to bring the youth of all countries periodically together for amicable trials of muscular strength and agility? “ (Coubertin)

The quotation above shows his notion of peace. In these ambitions he was influenced by his paternal friend Jules Simon. Simon h ad been a co-founder of the Interparliamentary Union, established in Paris in 1888, and the International Peace Bureau, founded in 1892.

80% of the honorary members of the IOC founding Congress 1894 in Paris were members of national peace movements. Five of those won later Nobel Peace Prices.

Coubertin was convinced that peace education could only be effective if theoretical learning was accompanied by personal experience. Olympic sport was the very means to achieve this aim. Sport in the sense should become an instrument to reform economy and politics and thus society as a whole: “The Olympic Games will be a potent, if indirect factor in securing universal peace”.

Pierre de Coubertin was primarily a pedagogue and his foremost aim was to reform education. In 1925 he was one of the founders of the World Pedagogical Union (Union Pégagogique Universelle/ U.P.U.) compiled a “Charter of Educational Reform” and in 1926 he founded an “International Center of Sports Education” (Bureau International de Pédagogie sportive/B.I.P.S.). His great achievement was to combine and interweave sports, education, and the idea of world-wide peace. Influenced by his experiences during several visits to England, especially by the study of Thomas Arnold’s (1795-1842) conception of education, Pierre de Coubertin demanded ethical and moral values together with physical training – sports being the basis and initiating source. Coubertin’s programme of modern sports education did not originate in ancient Greece but in the system of English public schools. The idea of universal peace was predominant in his thoughts on the beginning, a misunderstanding of the ancient notion of peace by Coubertin. The modern Olympic Games conceived by Coubertin were built on the three pillars: elite sports, ethics and peace.

Evaluating and looking back on the Games of 1896 Coubertin writes in more realistic tones:

“ One may be filled with a desire to see the colors of one’s club or college triumph in a national meeting, but how much stronger is the feeling when the colours of one’s own country are at stake! It was with these thoughts in mind that I sought to revive the Olympic games. I have succeeded after many efforts. [I hope] it may be a potent, if indirect, factor in securing international peace.”

Coubertin’s “Ode to Sport” underlines the identification of sport and peace in literary form:

“O Sport, You are Peace!

You forge happy bonds between the peoples

by drawing them together in reverence for strength

which is controlled, organised and self disciplined.

Trough you the young of the entire world

learn to respect one another,

and thus the diversity of national traits becomes a source

of generous and peaceful emulation! “

In his early writings, he refers to international sporting encounters as "the free trade of the future" seeing the participating athletes as "ambassadors of peace" even though by his own admission he still had to take care, at the time of the founding of the IOC in 1894, not to say too much about this, not wanting - as he says in a document that has come down to us - to ask too much of sportsmen or to frighten the pacifists. With his ideas of peace, however, Coubertin associated an ethical mission which, then as now, was central to the Olympic Movement and - if it were to succeed - had to lead to political education. On the threshold of the 20th century, Coubertin tried to bring about enlightened internationalism by cultivating a non-chauvinistic nationalism.

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I don't buy anything produced in China.

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BS, that is impossible unless you have a catch like you let your mother do the shopping for you, or you live in a cave wearing youor hair shirt and tin foil hat.

Goddamn...

I was a libertarian and a supporter of the good doctor well before it became 'cool' and I am completely embarassed at how the little ones have hijacked the cause into nothing more then a leftist sit in.

The movement always emphasized freedom, personal responsibility and adherence to the rules in place while we work to fix the broken ones.

Here you have an honor bestowed on someone who takes that opportunity to effectively piss on it. She SIGNS a code of conduct before engaging, purposelly violates, get told by a guard "Sorry I cant let you do that".. and the pinks who have hijacked Ron Pauls name try to cite it as a restriction on her freedom.

Not it is someone going against the values of the libertarian movement and the fact the diaper dandies can't see this shows how hopeless we are.

As for the underlying Tibet issue itself, these children again further misrepresent the libertarian position (because they have no idea what the hell it really is anyways).

For those who are interested, I suggest Lewrockwell.com and wordsearch china tibet.

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I've been here a day and already see that you have no idea what you're talking about most of the time, GLT.

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Actually, he makes a rather valid point. The irony IS priceless.

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Ah, the age card. Because we all know every 40 year old knows more than every 22 year old.

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Yes, that's right. Now sit down and shut up, Junior. Get back to me when you start paying taxes.

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This person's Constituional rights were not violated.

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Agreed. Why does every nutjob seem to think that the Right to Free Speech allows them to trash every bit of decorum and manners in the world and act like an annoying prick anytime a camera is around?

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Agreed. Why does every nutjob seem to think that the Right to Free Speech allows them to trash every bit of decorum and manners in the world and act like an annoying prick anytime a camera is around?

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There are too many ignorant people out there spouting off about "freedom of this" and "freedom of that" who have never even read the Bill of Rights.