Saturday, April 19, 2008
i cant stop and notice that this whole human rights, anti china Olympics thing can really get out of hand.. President of IOC, Jacques Rogge mentioned that , yes this is a crisis.. personally for me.. its kinda amusing and sad at the same time.. why? cos like electrons, it shows the duality of human.. what do i mean by that??
first and foremost, i have participated in some kind of competition at least once during my lifetime and even though its a national level, principle behind it is still the same.. i guess its called sportsmanship.. i feel, sports is sports, politics is politics.. no matter what the issue is.. if people have issues with human rights policies one country has, i believe there are other ways of doing it.. the olympic isnt some 1 day event you can just simply say, hmm lets not partake in any of it for this year to get our msg across.. its like a major international event held every 4 years.. and some say started as early as 884BC..
i dont know bout you but it goes to tell me how much history this event has on humanity.. its like, you're watching a soccer match, you paid good money for it, and suddenly due to a referee decision, the other team decided to walk off from the match, causing a disqualification.. you will go WTF right?..time and time gain, i believe people has play some form of sports and there were times, you were tempted to throw tantrums or such and people has reminded you to be a sportsman and carry on..take it like a professional or something within those lines.. im not gonna take sides to who is right and wrong.. but yeah, dont get olympics involve man.. its gonna ruin everything for everybody..you wanna protest, fine, go ahead, do it via other means.. dont involve the olympics..
secondly, the nature of these protest.. how does these activist does it? trying to disrupt the olympic torch relay.. how? from what i see, by being violence towards the torch bearer who mind is just carrying out his/her responsibility as a honored olympic torch carrier.. how does the protesters does it? showing act of violence by burning China's flag and creating a lot of chaos in the protest.. cant you guys do it gently? its like telling others, im against bullies who beat up small school kids and you end up catching these bullies and beating them up for it..
thirdly, why are people bothered about the crime against humanities in tibet ONLY when there are many other places where seriously, it would also need the attention.. the palestinian/israel issue, iraq, AFRICA, bosnia etc.. perhaps the parties involve are different and the agenda are different, but still people are involved and worst still, people are dying.. innocent people died, dying, will die, someone they knew died..where are the activist for these then? isnt it not human right not to die? or at least given a choice to die or not.. imagine you wake up one day, saying i dont wanna die and before you know it a bomb lands in your room.. or saying you dont wanna die, but cos you havent eaten for 30 days, you die of undernourishment..
my views may seem unimportant, or 1 sided, or incorrect.. but point is, im just trying to highlight what i think and feel, the duality of human..
smoke on the water.
9:41 AM
