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I Won’t Watch The Olympics
A Petition - 522 pledged

In the US we can see protests on TV all the time. If we live in metropolitan areas we may even see them on our own streets. Some of us are annoyed by them, some are disrupted by them, most of us are completely desensitized to the violent images of protesters clashing with law enforcement.

However, no measure of desensitization prepares you for images of Tibetan Monks being fired on while engaging in peaceful protest of the Chinese government. Nothing prepares you for the news reports of protestors being burned to death. As I watched those images I was both shocked and outraged.

As I tried to make sense of what I was seeing I found the Dalai Lama’s press conference on March 16 responding to media questions regarding the violent response to the protests. He did call for an international investigation. He did refer to it as genocide. However, what he didn’t do was rage, or threaten, or lose his place of emotional center.

So, after watching all hour and fifteen minutes of that press conference I decided if the Dalai Lama can keep his composure, and stay focused on solutions, so can I. With that it made a solemn and solid decision that I will not watch a Chinese sponsored Olympic games. I cannot support that government’s feeble attempt to bolster its public image while at the same time gunning down monks on the streets and burning protesters alive.

Please join me. Please sign our electronic petition below so we can let advertisers know that collectively we will not watch those games. Our goal is one million signatures. Let’s follow the Dalai Lama’s example and stay calm, but let’s also leverage capitalism and hit ‘em where it hurts….the pocketbook.

Peace,

Lisa

I DECLARE THAT I WILL NOT WATCH THE OLYMPICS HOSTED BY THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA, AND I WANT THE MEDIA TO KNOW.

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  • Eric Sarai,
    "Ya, turn off your tv-sets while your at it..."
  • tom n,
    "They tout themselves as a progressive nation but it cant be further from the truth.Toxic toothpaste poisonous pet food toys covered in lead paint they wouldnt even let american ships into their port.I wont watch a minute of the games "
  • Topher Blair,
    " Has anyone seen the Pepsi "Go Red" crap? Geez we are seriously hell bound."
  • Michelle Eickmeier,
    "Make a difference!"
  • Rose-Mary Bottom,
    "China needs to free Tibet and Stop the violence in Darfur. Buying the oil from Darfur only continues that conflict. I love the Olympics especially the summer Olympics, I will not support China."
  • Dellianan of the Sea,
    "Evil."
  • Martin Watson,
    "The Olympics are now as far removed from their original intent as is possible. Now they are in China, a country with atrocious human rights. Why is no country boycotting the games? The US were all too quick to boycott the Moscow Olympics weren't they?"
  • hjkdhjl,
    "watch the olympich and have some pride for your country. stop being such an ativist and just watch them. it only happens ever four years and it shows that all countries canunite under one roof. "
  • Victoria
  • Mar Echevarria
  • Dimitriy Boynetskiy,
    "OLYMPICS ARE GREAT"
  • Tucker Johnson,
    "You guys don't know what you're missing out on, the Olympics in Beijing is great!"
  • mike tuggle,
    "It is a sad shame that through shear greed, jobs and money are flowing into china. china has not developed any of these products or technologies they are making (shoddy quality, at best). And if it weren't enough, they are given the Olympics. "
  • Lin Goodman
  • Jason Johnson,
    "I will not be tricked by a totalitarian state offering "bread and circuses" to masses."
  • Thomas Hunger
  • José Cordeiro,
    "Olympics Games, the hypocrisy... freedom, please"
  • Jennifer Masters,
    "This is my peaceful protest against the hate, violence, war, terror, fear, torture, and destruction in the world, affecting our planet Earth and all of humanity... I say *no more.* It is time to remember our humanity, how to be humane."
  • Cynthia Hupper
  • Nate Dauth,
    "Free Tibet!!"
  • Ryan Kirk
  • Eric
  • Travis Chesney,
    "Tibet. Darfur. Millions of cats and dogs killed. Moon Bears. Pollution. Just a few reasons to boycott the Olympics and to send a message to a sinister nation."
  • Anna K
  • Von Hauesen
  • Ben Neise
  • Jake Dalton
  • Thomas Nunn,
    "disgusting treatment of animals, we should round up these people and do the same to them. they call themselves a great nation, the are disgusting and the scum of the earth. "
  • Christie Benker
  • LeeAnn Herring,
    "I want shop at walmart either. "
  • aiga de oliveira vicente
  • kathy jo,
    "I will not be watching this years olympics at all!!!! That country treats its people like animals!!!!! They act like robots.....all of them doing what they are told and to "behave" themselves while we are watching!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SICK"
  • mbuonarroti,
    "Yes, The peaceful benign people of tibet have been taken for a ride for years...and world knows this,....Infact every true sportsman in the world should oppose openly and drop out...I am sad to find no one has done this..."
  • Maurice Von Tarnow,
    "I don´t believe in rewarding a nation that shamelessly violates human, animal, civil & environmental rights...a Nation that kills his own people should not be rewarded."
  • gene harris,
    "GEORGE BUSH YOU EMBARRASSMENT WITH THE TITLE OF PRESIDENT....BRING OUR ATHLETES HOME!!!"
  • Geza Varadi
  • Heather Harmon
  • Kelsie Pyle,
    "I refuse to watch the Olympics since they are hosted by the people's republic of China! "
  • Kerri Zimmerman
  • richard carmichael,
    "China's role in enabling and perpetuating the atrocities in Dardur by the Sudanese government is reason alone to boycott the games. Unfortunately it's only one reason among many."
  • Lucas Yang,
    "Olympic gold medalist and outspoken Darfur activist Joey Cheek has had his visa revoked by the Chinese embassy, hours before the speedskating champion was set to fly to China. I WON'T WATCH THE OLUMPICS!! "
  • Luxembored,
    "As citizenships, we don't have any power to decide where the CIO organize the games. As consumers (at the end, that's all we are), we can decide not to consume those games. I won't watch those games organized by a dictatory country."
  • thomas MARTIN
  • Gabrielle Dickman
  • nina
  • BW Price,
    "A communist country shouldnt have the right to host the games. Makes you wonder if the IOC got something under the table for this decision. Its a Possibilty!"
  • Kerry Hammond
  • Pinuccio,
    "For me it's more other issues, like animal abuse, especially dogs and cats. Dalai Lama is theocratic dictator! not a hero really. But of course the olympic games should be abolished altogether and return to their Hellenic, non-professional roots. "
  • Terry Mackey
  • Ian Oller,
    "FREE TIBET!"
  • mark Baird
  • Leonie Hitchenor,
    "What a cynical move this has been on the part of the IOC. I can't believe China has been selected as a host nation for an event that supposedly symbolises the unity of humanity considering the Chinese govt's appalling record."
  • Heather Lapierre,
    "The IOC bought into the Chinese Gov't's promises. More fool them. The Olympics should never have been awarded to Beijing. It was naive to believe that they would actually honour their commitment."
  • peter harris
  • Mike Tomazic,
    "Pick a flavor - human rights, democracy, free speech, the environment, animal rights, arming atrocities, unfair trade, etc. The Chinese have a horrible record. Don't watch/don't buy from companies sponsoring the Olympics."
  • Beth Rogers,
    "I will not be watching any broadcast of the 2008 Bejing Olympics. China has an extensive record of torture and cruelty toward animals. That being said, if this is how they treat their animals, it stands to reason they have a similar respect toward humans."
  • Zach Fuerst,
    "The TV ad voiced by Morgan Freeman tells us the Olympics are a time for us to put our differences aside and unify. Blatant rights violations are not a 'difference'. They are an atrocity, and those who perpetuate this behavior should be condemned."
  • Jamen Fresquez,
    "¡Para Justicia y Libertad!"
  • L. Schweitzer,
    "My husband and I always watch the olympics. This year we will not, because we feel that watching the olympics gives authenticity to the Chinese oppression of Tibet and the Chinese people. "
  • Molly Rothert,
    "I love the Olympics and all they stand for. Which is why I will not watch one moment of these Games. "
  • J Ciavardini
  • Deirdre Shaw,
    "To participate in, even just to watch the Olympics is to condone China's disgusting foreign policies and its human rights record. I want no part in it."
  • Beatriz Gomes
  • Deborah A. Niwa,
    "IF I watched the Olympics all I would see are the millions & trillions of animals that you have killed & are still killing .. & to me nothing is so worthwhile to watch that I see only this in my mind.. horribly.. "
  • Pam Burton,
    "Everyone around the world should switch off the TV it would be nice too if the athlete's made a stand too. There is always another year. But not so for the slaughter of millions of animals and pets. Show your support for goodness sake!!!!"
  • Radka Horvathova
  • James Vinales,
    "Dictators - Loved by China for their similarities to the Chinese regime."
  • Shoko Nishimura
  • Kathy Whitaker
  • Zane Lamberte
  • Dannielle Philipson
  • MACOVEI GABRIELA
  • Joanna Górowska,
    "Country breaking constantly human and animal rights doesn't deserve the honour of holding the Olimpics!!!!!!"
  • Michelle Rie,
    "China lacks compassion & empathy for human/animal welfare, the environment. ONLY negotiates w/world regarding $/business. Supports horrendous deaths & torture of their own, countless Africans, & now elephants, for Ivory. "
  • Mark Kiernan
  • Matsi Yasei
  • Kevin Flatow
  • Jacinthe Vigneault
  • Laurie Brewer,
    "Your country does not deserve this honor. I am deeply ashamed of the people responsible for not moving the Olympics elsewhere."
  • Alessandro Barracciu
  • David Hollington,
    "not watch olympics? nah dont think so"
  • ursula neuß
  • Janet Solomon,
    "I'd watch the liberation of Tibet, however..."
  • Kayla,
    "That is so awful!!! They don't even do any of the killing humanely!! I am completely anti-china and I hope that more people will realize how bad the country really is."
  • Tim Redfern,
    "Ignoring the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing will be a pleasure."
  • BiLL Fowlie
  • Bron Harrison,
    "Stop the torture, stop the abuse of basic human rights, stop forced abortions, stop forced sterilization. We CON NOT just sit ack and let the Chinese off the hook."
  • Suzanna van der Voort,
    ""If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals." --Albert Einstein-- "
  • audrey ruseell
  • Terri Ybarbo
  • Alicya Lima,
    "support to free Tibet!!"
  • KC Minton
  • Xochitl Olea,
    "I wont watch this year the olympics, its awfuk what that country and every country as well do with the animals to use the fur, to eat them or testing all kind of products!! We have to stop this."
  • Lynn Lie
  • Rhiannon Myst
  • Mariel Zamora
  • John Kamradt
  • Jennifer Marie Brackett,
    "Boycott!"
  • Nancy A Pierce
  • Dominique Marquez,
    "This is sick! I cannot believe that China is being allowed to host the Olympics! I will definitely not be watching this year!!"
  • Jose Carmona
  • Helen Forsythe,
    "Sick of the brutal animal torture and slaughter, boycotting China for human and animal liberation, won't be watching ANY of the Beijing Olympics, absolutely disgusted with China for not enforcing long overdue change - STOP THE KILLING."
  • mick cave
  • Zbigniew Szyma?ski
  • Elzbieta Brzezinska
  • White Owl,
    "The pictures I have seen of the way animals are treated there say more than i possibly could. Appalled"
  • Jenny Vegan,
    "I remain committed to a comprehensive boycott of all Chinese products and sponsorships - including the 2008 Olympics."
  • Denise Lytle
  • Gavin West,
    "I am not going to support the Olympics this year. How could they have chose China?!"
  • lashitha
  • Darlene Davis,
    "I will not watch the Olympics every again! I am never buying any China products, neither. Thank you."
  • Lorie Rhoden
  • Jamie Flitton,
    "The Chinese are good people. The government however has some misguided policies. I will not watch the Olympics. Not to punish the Chinese people, but to show solidarity for those who are abused by the Chinese government."
  • Edward Kotlan
  • Jacqueline Tremlin
  • Christine Kamradt
  • Lorraine Kay,
    "Boycott china for their lack of animal welfare laws!"
  • Jay cosbab,
    " the THOUGHT of the 2008 event fills me with utter disgust..due to the BLATANT exploitation of the event by the chinese leaders! How china with it's Appalling record could be CONSIDERED .to host such a HUGE WORLD WIDE EVENT is beyond belief "
  • ulla weiland
  • Diana Dayton,
    "I will not support China in anything as long as it allows this brutality to continue. And I am spreading the word."
  • Sugar Bouche,
    "When we abuse other living creatures we suffer and we can only receive as a much compassion and mercy as we are capable of giving....I hope that China will have more misery, floods, disasters and nobody will give a shit. "
  • JAY A,
    "please do the right thing!"
  • Terrie C. Williams,
    "I will not watch this travesty. China's human rights record, Tibet, the way China treats animals, especially dogs, will always prevent me from watching anything that China hosts or is a party to. I also boycott Chinese products!!"
  • Carolyn Tonahill,
    "I will not watch the Olympics in delberate protest of their atrocities against human and animal life. "
  • Jessica Cresseveur,
    "Why should I support a country that abuses humans, animals, and the environment?"
  • maikki urban
  • donna smith,
    "They need to improve all animal rights.I will have nothing to do with this country until they do!"
  • Lil Judd,
    "China's government has no concerns over what's humane & humanitarian rights. OK the Panda seems safe. But what about all the other species. What about people's pets. "
  • Shirley
  • Sandy Rusch
  • misty shanks
  • Sarah Panullo,
    "It is sickening they way they treat people and animals."
  • Susana Carinhas
  • Stephanie Bradley,
    "I will definately be boycotting the Olympic games while it is being held in such a barbaric country! and my family and friends feel the same way. Treat human beings and animals right then maybe you will earn the right to hold such an event as this."
  • Adam Klod
  • Lynn Kane,
    "It is the smiles on the faces of these godless animal torturers that is so pathetic."
  • Dani Leboeuf,
    "BOYCOTT CHINA ALL OVER THE WORLD!!!"
  • KIMBERLY FLECK,
    "I can't watch or support the Olympic games in a country who engages inhorrific human and animal rights violations. Please restore harmony to your country and the Olympics. Kimberly Fleck"
  • Maggi Parker,
    "As long as China violates human an animal rights, ships poisonous food and toxic chemically treated products to the US, I will not patronise the Olympic Games or buy anything tat says Made in China."
  • Rose Bellamy,
    "A disgusting cruel barbaric country that have no respect for any living creature. I will never buy anything from china, and definately will not watch the olmpics. This country just sickens me completely."
  • Pearl MIllard
  • Patricia Hisey,
    "How is it possible that the cruelest country in the world will be profiting from the US by hosting the Olympics? It is appalling to me. "
  • Jackie Doller,
    "I can't believe humans would do such a horrible thing. May God have no mercy on their souls. Bless the animals."
  • Carol-Ann
  • J Steven Reese,
    "I won't be participating by watching or buying anything that bares the now-tarnished olympic symbol."
  • Eva Eberhardt
  • Lars Larsson
  • Marcy Morgan
  • BRENDA HODGES,
    "IT IS AN ABSOLUTE ATROSITY THAT CHINA (THE CRUELIST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD) IS ALLOWED TO HOST THE OLYMPICS! MYSELF-MY FAMILY OR FRIENDS WILL NOT WATCH ANY OF THE OLYMPICS! "
  • Dawn Bolin
  • Jacinthe Vigneault
  • Summer,
    "No I will not be watching the olympics this year. I also BOYCOTT China products.Chinese peoples souls are not in harmony with what is good. That is a big thing with the "orient"...you believe you need to be in "harmony"...and you aren't. "
  • Jonathan Horne,
    ""Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, to you it shall be for meat" Genesis 1:29"
  • Alice O,
    "I have seen enough from china. I refuse to see anything else. China does not deserve to host the Olympic Games unless it gives some attention to animal rights and human rights."
  • Eleni Michaels,
    "The atrocities committed towards animals in China is seen by many as very barbaric and should not have been allowed to host the Olympic games."
  • mick G,
    "i will not support this olympics"
  • barb
  • terry west
  • Eric A,
    "sad"
  • Annelies Ooms,
    "End this cruelty towards all animals!!!!!!!! I will not watch the Olympics!!!! You are sick, disgusting, sadistic non - humans!!! "
  • kathy
  • Patricia Nigro,
    "This is a barbaric country. I will not buy anything that is made in China & most definitely not watch it on television. the United States should not attend it. "
  • joan levitt
  • Claudia Peters
  • Laura Redhawk,
    "Their souls are not in harmony with what is knowing of good. As long as China supports the abuse and killing of animals and people in the manners that they currently do. I will not support any endeavor of theirs."
  • Angela VanCleve,
    "I will not support a country that cruelly kill dogs and cats for meat nor that brutally beat helpless dogs to death in their streets. I won't use any of my hard-earned money to help such a nation."
  • granpat
  • Alicya Lima,
    "stop with hate. Start to love again...."
  • John Olexa,
    " You should call yourselves " The Animal Killers Republic of china! "
  • Julie Frew,
    "BARBARIANS! SICK, CRUEL BEYOND BELIEF!! I am boycotting anything with a China label on and absolutley, will not watch their olympic games at all."
  • Helen Beasley,
    "Disgusting, sick people what they do killing of these poor dogs & cats disgust me to no end.I do not like China for this reason and I do not buy one thing marked made in china."
  • Debbie Low,
    "What the chinese do to animals is beyond inhumane and sick. I and my family will not support a country who is without compassion and relishes cruelty to any living being. No way will I watch the Olympics nor will I buy any Chinese products."
  • Anna Hickl,
    "I will not watch the Olympics because the way china treats his animals is disgusting and horrible... An with their humans they do not much better..."
  • Pam Fioretti,
    "The Olympics should NEVER have been awarded to this country which has no respect or compassion for human or animal rights.It has tarnished the concept of the Olympics forever for me."
  • Guglielmo Tatti
  • Laura Tatti
  • natasha vuletich,
    "IT IS DISGUSTING WHAT THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT DOES AND CHINESE DISGUST ME WITH THEIR CRUELTY TOWARDS ANIMALS, DOGS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE FOOD ON YOUR TABLES, SICK SICK PEOPLE"
  • Angela Rhodes,
    "There is no way i will be watching the Olympics, your country is the most evil and brutal in the world. You have no respect for any sentient beings, you all have blood on your hands."
  • Charlene,
    "The Beijing, China Olympics WILL NOT be viewed in our home. China and their treatment of animals is barbaric and heartless. "
  • Jacquie Schell
  • Karen Sheaffer,
    "I want everyone to know that I will NOT watch the 2008 Olympics hosted in China! China does not deserve to hold the olympics. I do not buy anything made in China!I will not support this government."
  • Linda Wong,
    "I refuse to watch the Olympics from any place where the people treat the animals horrific! SHAME!!!"
  • Joycey Berry,
    "I will not be watching the olympic's. Have no desire to see them because they are held in a barbaric and uncivilized country."
  • Heather Wilson-South
  • Carrie Wolf,
    "And I plan on sharing WHY with everyone I know. And I have many other friends who share my view and are telling their friends."
  • STEPHANIE COLSON,
    "ANYONE WHO EATS DOG DOESNT DESERVE TO EVEN BE SEEN BY OTHER COUNTRIES AS CIVIL..."
  • Kenneth Lapointe
  • gwyn wahlmann
  • Jack Simpson,
    "China needs to quit sending us tainted product, and quit murdering it's own citizens. Isn't this supposedly why we went into Iraq?"
  • Brian Wolf,
    "Now that it's getting closer we need to renew our commitment! Om Mani Padme Hum"
  • gg,
    "you all misunderstand about china and china's government,maybe you can have a visit to china to have a look how Chinese people are nice."
  • Lamarche Christine
  • Chris Mason
  • Stephen Newton,
    "Genocide in Darfur, occupation of Tibet, cheap goods made with slave labor, stolen jobs from the US, oil hoarding and glutony, millions of homeless Chinese from earthquakes, state sponsored cyber terrorism, and the list goes on and on.... "
  • David Drake,
    "China also has thousands of Christians locked up for the unforgivable sin of loving this dude named Jesus. I will not watch."
  • Simon Schneiter,
    "I am not going to watch this Olympics! Freedom for Tibet!"
  • julie skipsey,
    "I love the olympics but I won't be watching this time, Money might make the world go round, but not in my house, they should never have been allowed to hostwith a Human Rights record like that!!!!!!! "
  • Chance Harp,
    "Fight the genocide or repeat history's vicious cycle!"
  • Peter Hazelton
  • Steve,
    "I will not watch, not only because of human rights issues but also because of the economic games they play that do not create a global competative market."
  • Charlie McAnulty,
    "I have loved the olympics all my life, but I cannot watch it this year in a country who squashes people's human rights to disagree with their government. Jails and murders dissenters. No I will not watch or support such a government."
  • Richard
  • Pham Trung Nghia,
    "They turned the Olympics into something else. "
  • caroline prak
  • Michelle Platas Piña,
    "The goverment of china is dangerous, is killing the liberty of expression, Tibet, Myanmar, Vietnam and the people of china are suffering this, the only way is to do something, i will not watch"
  • Geiah Homeres
  • Rick Dalley,
    "I support the aims of the Olympics but the human rights violations of China make it impossile for me to watch. I will also not purchase products from companies who are advertising."
  • Shane Buchanan,
    "I have always watched the olympics, but not this year.. Will also ask all I know not to watch.."
  • bert,
    "china could be a wonderful country. I hope the government of china and of other influential counties (Russia) notice this initiative and think about it twice!"
  • Mary DeFranco,
    "Human rights come before olympic games. Not only will I not watch the olympics, I will boycott the sponsors"
  • Kay,
    "Toxic manufacturers! Surpressing, Lying Government! DIRTY COUNTRY FOR ATHLETES!"
  • bettina ruepp,
    "we can't wait that someone change something, it must something be changed by us!"
  • Tom Phillips
  • Ken Hayashi,
    "China is wrong."
  • Gary Meddick
  • Sam Jung,
    "I love watching the Olympic Games too. But as painful as it is for me not to watch, I cannot do so in good conscience when I know of China's appalling behavior."
  • Zack Rizzo
  • Michael Murphree,
    "Screw the Chinese Government "
  • Tamás Kincses,
    "I will not watch the 2008 Olympic Games. Boycott the sponsors!"
  • Abby V.,
    "One world, one dream?"
  • Sarah Nelson
  • Frank Wang,
    "Instead of boycotting the 2008 Beijing Olympic games, I would advocate all people in the free world to refuse watching the Beijing Olympic. "
  • ??,
    "Those who have never come to China never have any say in defaming our country ,our people and our Party.So adult people should come and see instead of believing what you hear.As a Chinese college student ,that's what all I want to say to the world."
  • Dennis Sein
  • Thomas Myers,
    "Screw China, I'm not watching their "sham" olympics. Free Tibet first."
  • Gethin Jenkins,
    "China has a rich history and culture that the present government doesn't deserve."
  • vaani kapoor
  • Régis Guyonnet,
    ""China too crowded""
  • Megan Merchant
  • chris lynch,
    "THE CHINA OLYMPICS RESEMBLES THE 1936 GERMAN/NAZI OLYMPICS.THINK ABOUT IT."
  • Johnny B. Goode
  • Philip Heacock,
    "By not watching you strike the Chinese government in the two spots that they are the most vulnerable, their image and their pocket book."
  • Momo Hamamori
  • Linda Faigen,
    "Some people who sign this don't watch the Olympics anyway. But I do. I love the Olympics. But this time, I'm not going to participate in China profiting from them"
  • Tero Karvinen,
    "I will not watch a second of the olympic games nor will I spend a cent on the sponsors' product."
  • Kathy Heacock,
    "Besides their treatment of the Tibetan people, China has been tearing down whole villages of their own people to build Olympic venues, leaving them homeless. Dreadful."
  • cactus_spiky
  • Randy Martin
  • Dr. Shaker B. Srinivasan,
    "Please read Hu Jia and Teng Biao's letter, The Real china and the Olympics, available for download here: http://hrw.org/pub/2008/asia/teng_biao080220.pdf. "
  • Simon Patrick,
    "The promises made are not being kept, every time I hear the word "Olympic" I feel only shame. The flame was extinguished in Paris by the Chinese organisers. It remains extinguished for me."
  • Ryuuji Maeda
  • Janet Heierbacher,
    "human rights come before olympic games. i think its obvious..."
  • ajfoster,
    "Free Tibet!"
  • Frenette D.
  • G Martinello
  • Scott K,
    "Not only will I not watch the olympics, I will boycott the sponsors."
  • Doug Nixon,
    "The Olympics are "games". China's treatment of people is not a game. I will not be watching. "
  • lee baldwin
  • edward lin
  • Émile Cadieux,
    "La situation en Chine est tout simplement inacceptable à l'égard des droits de l'homme"
  • nol
  • Carlos Perez,
    "China both blows and sucks, and I never thought that was physically possible. (good one Bart Simpson)"
  • Katja Braeuer
  • Osmo hjjmp,
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  • Victoria Hall
  • Niamh Breheny,
    "I think that the EU should look to it's population and understand that many people would be more then happy to miss out on this Olympics so as to give coverage to things that China is involved in that are against Human Rights"
  • Nelly Guerra,
    "Totally in agreement with this position."
  • Michela
  • Monica Martinez
  • Renée G. Gagnon
  • Vincent Peerlinck
  • Antony Masters,
    "I'm appalled by the Chinese government's disregard for human life, also appalled at the lack of a back bone of the British Government in not stopping the torch run in London."
  • kayne Jansen,
    "It's sad but everyone needs to start taking responsibility - including athletes; it'd be good to see them step up to the real challenge."
  • Ruth Witte
  • Pan Yan,
    "Does anyone of you know what's happening in Tibet, Has anyone of you been to Tibet? Opening your eyes, stop fooling yourself......"
  • Hannah Lee
  • Romain Philippon
  • Thomas Graham
  • yolanda garcia,
    "I just would like to say to my coleges that they have power to say know, would you imaging no one media going over there? we would teach them how to respect human beings..."
  • Guy Dee
  • Nicky Davies
  • Tony Young,
    "The games are becoming a joke anyway. Too much money, politics and drugs have ruined the ideals. The Chinese agression is the last straw."
  • Randall Barish,
    "I won't waste my time watching this media farce which is just a promotion and photo op for the thugs who brought us the Tienanamen Square bloodbath and the Rape of Tibet. "
  • Victoria John,
    "..not watching & not purchasing any products produced by international sponsors...for Facebookers, a list is here:http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=35841465130"
  • Kurt Henderson,
    "on top of not watching, any product with the "proud supporter / sponser of the 2008 olympics" will go unpurchased by me as well. Olympic games are about freedom, not oppression."
  • rahul patil
  • Thomas Beck,
    "there should be peace not violence "
  • Kermit Walden,
    "Boycott the Chinese period!"
  • Benjamin Wagner
  • rhiannon murgatroyd
  • Tenzing G,
    "I'm appalled by the Chinese government's disregard for human life, human rights and freedom. They are fully deserving of a boycott."
  • Jigme,
    "I love sports but I will not watch this BLOODY Olympics in China. FREE TIBET "
  • Max Siekierski,
    "The human race is more important than any 100 meter dash."
  • Daniel Owen,
    "They were given the olympics on the condition that they improved their human rights record, they didn't honour the agreement."
  • Tsering Dolma,
    "I am boycotting this genocide Olympics to show my support for human rights and freedom in Tibet! FREE TIBET!!! "
  • Namtran Nguyen
  • Marco Curcio,
    "Free Tibet!"
  • Tom Jurstrom,
    "I will miss the javelin competition."
  • francesca varasano,
    "tibet libero!"
  • Alice R. Keiser,
    "Join in the boycott of the Chinese, their games and their corporate sponsors."
  • William Keiser,
    "Boycott the Chinese, the 2008 genocide olympics & their corporate sponsors. And be sure to let them know you are!"
  • Malcorps Caroline
  • Florian Wagner,
    "i won't watch the olympics in china! humantiy frist! to all: please visit http://nolympia.wordpress.com and get engaged! thanks."
  • Weber Jup,
    "no tv watch, no quota for the tv channels, no money from the advertising industry, no more interest from business, and the whole commercial build up for the games collapses"
  • Gabriel Freyria,
    "China is the biggest troglodite our generación has, and will ever see If we dont act now it will affect every country! DONT WATCH THE OLYMPICS, DONT BUY ANYTHING CHINESSE!"
  • Fátima Alvarado
  • Robert Szabo,
    "Enough. Tibet deserves better."
  • Tenkila J,
    "Free Tibet!"
  • Philip Malcorps,
    "No TV, No comercials, No money ! Pas de TV, pas de pubs, pas d'argent !"
  • misha
  • MARY RUTH PETERSEN
  • HervéSimonet,
    "Justice will prevazil : as Buddhists say, everything that has a beginning as a hand....including barbary."
  • Pierre Simonet,
    "Justice one day will prevail and as an Arabic saying goes : 'sooner or later the highest tree wille fall'."
  • Jaocb Beaty,
    "Free Tibet"
  • Roslyn Alexander,
    "I am disgusted by the inhumane manner the Chinese try to over throw a gentle people for 50 years"
  • Nathalie Tanguay
  • Courtney Maness
  • Rod Culp
  • Nicholas Candaele
  • michelle
  • Annabella Spagnut
  • Patti Robertson
  • Rod Fleming
  • Chisako Tsujino
  • Sheila Goddard
  • Hans Meyer,
    "Everyone should sign and honor this!"
  • irene sobkin
  • janet king,
    "the whole situation is appalling and the Chinese should feel ashamed."
  • Erica Scagliotti,
    "Business should not trump human rights, and China has proven that their assertion that the Olympics would improve human rights is false. The opposite is true."
  • Rae Bilash,
    "I am appalled that that China and the rest of us who would watch the olympics would smile and pretend that all is good when it is so obviously not. "
  • jeffrey paijmans,
    "Even the sporters train years for their medals, but will consider their medalls not so valueable. because there are more imortant things in life and it are these things things taht are happening right there in China."
  • Cori d'Ambrumenil
  • June Swadron
  • Daniel Barre,
    "The Dark Dragon will fall!"
  • Lidija Martinovic
  • Filomena Ruggiero,
    "Their medals are worthless as far as I'm concerned. There is nothing more important than peoples' most basic human rights."
  • Kim Leslie
  • Nicole Chan
  • Zorro
  • Jaia Friesen,
    "Freedom for All..."
  • marco de la barrera
  • Aimi Primus
  • chanchal cabrera
  • Elyse Cregar,
    "I think the Chinese government's treatment of the Tibetan people is outrageous. Thank you for taking steps to address this serious human rights issue."
  • rhonda donnelly
  • Sheena Anderson,
    "China is a bully and all the world leaders are allowing the bully to continue its oppressive rule. I will not watch the Olympic Games in China and I will not buy Chinese products. "
  • mike johnson,
    "'there is no god higher than truth' -mahatma gandhi"
  • Sarah Duncan
  • Troy Turi
  • Saundra Thomas,
    "I choose not to put economic/entertainment considerations over human life. I can't continue to pretend"
  • Jane Charles,
    "Free Tibet now. Allow all human beings to live in peace. All countries should withdraw their commitment to attend these Olympics until the Chinese agree to allow Tibet to have autonomy and freedom of speech and religion."
  • Barb Franklin
  • Karethe Linaae
  • Connie Maute,
    "I will not watch the Olympics hosted by China. Not with the way they treat other humans and infiltrate our shelves with poisonous goods."
  • Freyda Isaacs,
    "Wouldn't it be refreshing / revolutionary if everyone just told the truth? "
  • claude gignac,
    "c'est une vraie honte!!!!"
  • Gavin Stairs,
    "May all humans awaken. May all beings cease suffering."
  • Penn Kemp,
    "If only we could emulate the Dalai Lama's composure and courage... Yes, and boycott Chinese goods. "
  • Pamela Graham
  • syra cowin
  • JessAnn Smith
  • Matthew Richards
  • Gary Bauder
  • Chris Fritzen,
    "No country perpetrating such horrendous human-rights abuses should be granted the privilege of hosting the Olympics"
  • Edward Smith
  • Eric Fauque,
    "Shame on any one who watches the olympics in 2008"
  • Anna Zach,
    "If I were an olympic athlete I would NOT participate in the Olympics in China!!!"
  • Robert Hegyes,
    "Isn't the Bank Of China the institution that holds nearly the entire debt/deficit of the USA? To buy oil from Saudi Arabia? Hummmm..."
  • Jaime De La Barrera,
    "I will not watch the olympic games and I will boicot whoever sponsors this charade JDLB"
  • J.Christian Gagnon,
    "Vive les humains libres !"
  • John Thompson,
    "Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha !"
  • Skye Frank
  • Nan Wright
  • dianne korchynski
  • Bill Dougherty
  • Rachel Clark,
    "We are all one. Please embrace true peace."
  • Chris Caudill,
    "I urge all to avoid Chinese products too!"
  • Sarah B
  • Ann Dougherty,
    "It is time to FREE TIBET and stop all repressive tactics."
  • brennan
  • Amber Wade
  • james a. foster,
    "The olympics is being used as propoganda. I'll watch high school basketball first."
  • Guru Dorje
  • Jessica Turner
  • Jerry Gordon,
    "China represses Tibet and controls the Chinese people's and world's access to accurate news, revealing China's contempt for human rights. I will boycott products of Olympic advertisers unless they use their power to make China be responsible."
  • Jon Henson
  • Eileen Lynx
  • andrew wells,
    "all peoples deserve the simple freedom to live happily and on their own terms"
  • Soo
  • nicole martin,
    "wtf!?"
  • modamageo,
    "Down with the war machine!!"
  • Jonathan Williams
  • Kristen Miller
  • maripa Grieve,
    "it abut time the international community realises what is and has been happening in Tibet"
  • darcy henderson
  • Nancy Clemens,
    "We as freedom loving people cannot tolerate the cultural genocide of the Tibetan people."
  • Trudi Maaskant
  • Linda Bassingthwaighte,
    "I will not watch the Chinese Olympics. The Chinese government's repressive and violent campaign against the Tibetian protestors cannot be tolerated."
  • Nancy Brown ,
    "There is no way I will have anything to do with the olympics given the situation in China/Tibet. Please lets have communication, compromise. May all beings have happiness, joy , compassion and equinimity. "
  • Carly McMacken
  • Susan Brown
  • misty barros
  • Chris Fortune,
    "I'm not certain answering punishment with punishment is what's needed here. My highest wish would be to see the entire world arrive in China, and do a massive group meditation generating waves of Loving Kindness. OM MA NI PE ME HUM"
  • Chantal Dery
  • Deanna Wells,
    "Bill said it best: "The Olympics are all about achieving our highest potential as humans. This aspiration should begin with human rights. Any country who does not honor that committment should not be honored with an audience on the world stage." "
  • dale voss,
    "China should put their money where their guns are and realize the actions of this crackdown has possibly more ramifications than Tienamen did given their place in the world today. I will not watch Olympics orbuy anything from SmallMart."
  • Carol Mathison
  • Brian Gardner
  • Janet Pinkham,
    "I will alos boycott any products made in China at Walmart or any other store, until the Tibetan's are liberated. I urge others to stop buying Chinese products of any kind."
  • Bill Wells,
    "The Olympics are all about achieving our highest potential as humans. This aspiration should begin with human rights. Any country who does not honor that committment should not be honored with an audience on the world stage."
  • Bridget MacKenzie,
    "i will not be watching"
  • Malika
  • Phil Druker,
    "The Chinese are wonderful people, but they suffer with bad leaders."
  • Lori Batina,
    "The Olympic Games are a symbol of peace between nations. For the Chinese to host these games while engaging in a violent campaign against basic human freedoms is an outrage and a horrible insult to all the athletes and their supporters around the world."
  • Penny Joy
  • c Benson,
    "totally inappropriate behavior. I will not be watching."
  • Patricia Maarhuis
  • GARY BAUDER
  • Stacey Nievweija
  • Cynthia Dyrnes
  • Amber Kolln
  • Sharon Gretzinger
  • Martha Foster,
    "Athletes! Join our protest and don't go to the Chinese Olympics!!"
  • Debra Cummings
  • Oya Yansa,
    "Human Rights violations will not be tolerated anywhere in our global community-"I am a woman therefore the world is my family""
  • M. Dow,
    "Basic human rights, including safety, are far more important than business, sports and international prestige - and must be properly addressed FIRST."
  • eric stary
  • Hannes Stender
  • Kim McCullough
  • Michael Bucheler,
    "Countries should sort out civil rights as a pre-requisite not as a promise of hosting the olympics"
  • Scott Duncan,
    "Shame on the great nation of China, brutal force will never work. The whole world is watching what China does, not what they say"
  • Barbara Stennes-Cox
  • Barbara Matteri,
    "We must focus on PEACE to bring about the changes needed. Our focus will manifest. Not watching the games is powerful, imagine if we combine it with a meditation on peace in Tibet. The power of change is within us. raven-dream@hotmail.com"
  • jessica,
    "I am continually horrified by the actions of humans...but continue to have faith and vision for our future."
  • Meta,
    "We should take the time to distinguish violence and oppression wherever they occur, televised or untelevised, in our lives and in our country as well."
  • Faith Ramirez,
    "We must be the change we wish to see in the world. Not an exact quote but close, from the Dalai Lama. Inspirational."
  • Shaye Watson,
    "China must make a choice; if I have to refrain from watchin the Olympic Games on T.V. in order to help them make that choice, so be it."
  • Lynne Pulizzi,
    "I will not buy any produts from China till the vilonance has stoped in Tibet and Napal."
  • Brian,
    "I have a featured Internet radio show and would love to interview someone about this to help get the word out."
  • Lisa Forgacs
  • R Hill,
    "Free Tibet!!!!"
  • Aaron Baxter,
    "No one watches the olympics anyways, I do not see how boycotting them will solve anything. And I like how you'll do this, but you'll still consume mass amounts of Chinese goods on a daily basis. You guys are all ******* hypocrites"
  • Lovisa,
    "It is simple. Let Tibet and its people go."
  • Sasha,
    "This is in protest of the GOVERNMENT, not the Chinese people."
  • Jennifer Rosendale
  • Robert Wedel,
    "Just say "No" to the 2008 Olympics and to the government of The People's Republic of China... is that an oxymoron? Some day the Chinese people will get their country back."
  • amy Howell,
    "Nothing good can come out of trying to control others."
  • Elizabeth Loudon
  • Nicole Waite
  • ckohler
  • Neal MacFarlane
  • Tim Jenkins,
    "I do not believe these actions reflect the true character and will of the Chinese people and this signature is a protest of their government's actions only and not the people of China. "
  • Joseph taubitz
  • B. Buchanan,
    "I cannot fathom WHY China was even chosen. The government's disregard for their people and the rest of the world is disgusting."
  • Cristina Potmesil
  • Steve Shaw,
    "We should also boycott all Chinese products"
  • Liz LaCoss
  • Kelly Smith,
    "No country that treats its people this way DESERVES the honor of the Olympics!!!"
  • Serenity Hallgren,
    " "
  • Bonita Cubow,
    "China has done NOTHING required to host the Olympics.Human rights & pollution are worse than ever; even food is going to be imported because no one wants to eat their tainted crap. I WILL NOT BE TUNING IN!"
  • Angel Gregory,
    "Free Tibet!"
  • Aimee Bancroft
  • Timothy DeBusk
  • Val Jon Farris,
    "Human(kind)ness is something all of us must stand up for. I stand for compassion and decency."
  • CRAIG STEWART
  • J. Daniel Dusek
  • helen heronheart dusek,
    "violence in support of politics OR religion is unconscionable... violence of this nature is a crime against the entire world. my tv will remain off or on another channel for anything sponsored by china until these policies cease. helen dusek"
  • layne powell
  • Matthew Shough
  • Sam Givens
  • Linda Buffy,
    "I will in no way whatsoever support any Chinese products or the olympics now.The genocide, torture and suppression of the Tibetan peoples and their spiritual leaders is not at all acceptable or humane.Boycott the Olympics Now! "
  • Ximena Lemoine
  • Adam Goodman,
    "I support any type of peaceful protest"
  • John Donovan
  • Karmen Naccarato,
    "Another thought to make a point is not to buy ANYTHING from China. Just think of how much of our so called cheap merchandise comes from China. Perhaps the price is too high."
  • christina
  • Wendy L
  • Ivy McCanta
  • Sara Archer
  • Niko Birbilis,
    "Man, I can't believe that they expect us to want to go and watch the Olympics while we watch them kill monks."
  • Will Quartermain
  • Jeanette Heidt
  • Sheye Blaze
  • Taryn Gerhardt
  • Katherine A. Farr
  • Siobhan AW
  • keith bertrand
  • patty
  • Kinsey Shough
  • Graham Klym
  • JoAnn Fox,
    "We should pull our atheletes out of the games in protest, as should all countries who oppose genocide and torture."
  • Patricia Hamilton
  • Jennifer Cole
  • Lynne Bly
  • E. M. Blake
  • Todd Ulbrich
  • James
  • Duane Gatewood
  • Danielle Westbrook
  • Leo Page
  • Laurie Byres,
    "i refuse to watch Chinese-hosted oplymics, not because i do not like the Chinese, but because I believe that Chinais not doing anything to help the enivornment, and killing monks is just wrong on every level."
  • Carolyn Maddux
  • Shenelle King
  • Phyllis Rhyan
  • Brenna,
    "Free Tibet!"
  • Emily Wilson-Hoss
  • Charlene Weber,
    "HORRIBLE!"
  • David Howell
  • LINDA NEEL
  • Eric Brown,
    "Honestly, what the hell is wrong with the Chinese? Seriously."
  • Beulah Neel
  • Morgan Smith
  • Christopher Ahlin
  • Kayleigh Fleeman
  • Kara Donnell
  • Lacy Wesland
  • Jessica Eskelson
  • Chris Henson
  • barbara
  • amanda speer
  • Sarah Gates
  • Selena Kilmoyer
  • Steve Barnell
  • Brita Fosse
  • jason,
    "Basic Human Rights should not be overlooked in the event of competition. "
  • steve barnell
  • Carleen C. Coker
  • Lois Sage
  • Allison Zelman
  • Caleb Hayes
  • Lisa Hayes
  • Robert C. Gale

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