Datapoohbah on Tibet issue… Leave the Olympics out of it.

I rarely post publicly about stuff like this.  

It really bothers me when people have a beef about something and then tack onto someone else’s event to make a statement.  Trying to leverage their thunder for their own.

The Olympics have absolutely nothing to do with the Tibet/China issue.   So leave the Olympics out of it.

There are athletes that have trained their whole lives, often hours a day for the dream of competing in the Olympics.

  Protesters of some other non-Olympic related issue have no right to dick that up for them.

One has nothing to do with the other.    I *might* understand if there are security issues for the athletes, like in the 80s when the Olympics were in Moscow, but no politician should decide if or when these athletes should compete.  If I recall even back then the move was mostly political and not really a security issue.

So to you protestors, even if your cause is just, you’ve lost my respect and attention. 

Leave the Olympics out of it.