Olympic boycott 'may cost us money.'

[reddragdiva]

The noble Chinese foreign minister (left) stands alone against the onslaught of corrupt Western interests (right) with ulterior motives daring to abuse their armoured might to call for a boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

OPIUM SQUARE, Westminster, Thursday (UNN) — Any call for a boycott of this summer's Beijing Games would be "counterproductive," the Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell has said.

Her comments come after a group of artists, Nobel Prize winners, international athletes and politicians called for a boycott of the games, citing China selling guns to Darfur militia in return for Sudanese oil, actually violating human rights more in the runup to the games than it did before, killing Falun Gong followers to sell their organs and, worst of all, selling claimed "MP4 players" that only do crappy AMV videos, lying bastards.

The Chinese foreign ministry was quick to respond, stating that those calling for a boycott have "ulterior motives". "They claim to have a higher motivation than working for prosperity. I find this highly implausible. They just don't understand our actions in Darfur!"

Ms Jowell said calls for a boycott are a "great pity" and Britain is still committed to attending the games. Eddie "the Eagle" Edwards in particular will be competing in several events to replace those boycotting the event. "The world has known for the last seven years that Beijing would host the Olympics. The International Olympic Committee is famous for its incorruptibility and would never pick a host city for any less than the most noble of reasons.

"Most progressive governments accept there are wholly unacceptable aspects of Chinese policy. But there are important ideals of international cooperation to consider. Particularly economic ones."

• Tessa Jowell "Oh Jesus I have to get this right for 2012 too". If we're not voted out by then, Feruary 14, 2008

Comments

[webcowgirl.livejournal.com]

HA HA HAH!

[steer.livejournal.com]

Heh... I've got one of those AMV players. Still, for the price I didn't know it had a video player and still thought it was bargainous. It does have the worst software ever in the history of software though.

[reddragdiva]

http://wiki.s1mp3.org/Main_Page - you can actually hack the things. If you dare risk bricking it.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Ah... alas, mine is a sigmatel.

[anthanum.livejournal.com]

The IOC isn't corrupt, it is all lies that Uncle Samaranch was a fascist; that blue shirt was given to him by his mother; it wasn't his, he found it by the side of the road; he borrowed it from a mate because his shirt was at the drycleaners; he was not a leading fascist in the Franco regime, fascist, Samaranch, not!

so there :P

[reddragdiva]

Next they'll be saying the Pope had any option not to be a Nazi. Perish the thought! Also, devil worship is a much more urgent problem for the Catholic Church to deal with than priests fucking children and the Church covering it up.

[anthanum.livejournal.com]

well you see, the devil IS the Prince of Lies after all; that kiddie fiddling stuff is all well constructed spin on the part of said Prince. No self respecting priest would ever (get caught) doing that and the church isn't covering it up, it is quietly but pro-actively correcting the malicious misrepresentations of the Lord of Darkness. The church does this quietly because it doesn't want or desire the adulation of doing a good job, they get plenty of satisfaction from the children concerned.

Therefore, the evidence is before your very eyes that devil worship is a immediate and growing problem and clear and present danger that must be dealt with as a matter of some urgency.