Comments on: China: Official Organ Harvesters For The 2008 Summer Olympics

By: blurvis

blurvis — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:09:41 +0000

After reading your disturbing summary of the use of organs from executed prisoners in China I began to think of another way to make our voices heard. We need to hurt the companies that are enabling the IOC to continue to ignore human rights. I think we should start a movement to boycott all of the NBC coverage of the Olympics and let our voices be heard by the companies that purchase advertising during the Beijing Olympics. It’s not as strong a statement as getting the USOC to boycott the games, but it might be effective in getting the attention of GE, the parent company (and my employer) that profiting from these games is immoral.

By: TomR

TomR — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:32:39 +0000

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Well, thanks to Al Gore, selling organs is against the law in the US - and rightly so…
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This topic always reminds me of that movie Coma. Oh, and if you’ve seen that Monty Python film, the organ donor sketch from The Meaning of Life.

And you know that if the Neocons had their way, they’d love the U.S. to participate and cite organ removal from political prisoners as a exemplary model of “free market” capitalism and a democratic use/sharing of resources. We’ve got some seriously mentally ill people in the Bush administration and appearing on our media. Psych evaluations are needed.

We’ve officially gone through the looking glass where fiction and satire have become reality. Absolutely disgusting.

This updated logo about sums up the China Olympics for me:

http://www.bbdo.co.uk/blog/archives/796

- Tom

By: Beerfart Liberal

Beerfart Liberal — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:04:47 +0000

no. i know. the whole thing is really sad. so many of them are so messed up now later in life.

By: Beerfart Liberal

Beerfart Liberal — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:02:56 +0000

Me too. Like I said in an early comment, those were the first Olympics i remember and i remember that vividly. it really wasn’t a big deal. It seemed to just fit in to the tumultuous times I was growing up in. i jujsty wiki’d john carlos and he denies he was ever stripped of his medal. didn’t know that. hmmm. learn somethingh new every day.

By: Raven

Raven — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:45:38 +0000

The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, yesterday became the first world leader to decide not to attend the Olympics in Beijing.

As pressure built for concerted western protests to China over the crackdown in Tibet, EU leaders prepared to discuss the crisis for the first time today, amid a rift over whether to boycott the Olympics.

By: dmac

dmac — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:37:16 +0000

no problemo kirk, we know from whence the other comes, i think.

thanks for all you do, happy kitchen experiments to you!

By: dmac

dmac — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:34:53 +0000

kirk, since you are a psychiatrist, maybe one day you can do one on the (possible-added that to be gracious-) long term detrimental affects of being an elite ’amatuer’ olympic athlete.

that one i would like to read.

noone ever hears much about that part, as they watch sports.

i might make a comment or two on that thread.

By: Kirk James Murphy, M.D.

Kirk James Murphy, M.D. — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:31:46 +0000

dmac, thanks for being here and sharing your persepctive 9and catching my egregious ommission :)

By: Kirk James Murphy, M.D.

Kirk James Murphy, M.D. — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:31:05 +0000

I’m gonna hop upstairs to Siun’s breaking news on Iraq.

Dien-bien-phu is Baghdad spelled backwards. Who could have known? Well, anyone who read Rober Fisk six years ago.

I’ll be back on Sunday for more comments.

And remember - if you don’t have tickets for the Games, you can always boycott the sponsors.

Universal human rights are too important to leave to the megacorps.

Bon appetit

By: dmac

dmac — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:28:04 +0000

thanks for the olympics thread kirk, one more aspect of it to add to the brain file.

keep on posting them, is a deeply felt, multi-faceted, complicated issue for me.

for many reasons.

it is a subject that can be thoroughly examined from many aspects.