Free Tibet, China and the Olymics and all that March 31st, 2008

Before I go on, I am not normally political, but recently I am just getting fed up with lots of things, maybe its my age catching up on me. I have just being watching John O’Shea on TV3 talk about Tibet and the Olympics. Now I don’t have much time for John O’Shea (for no reason only from I find charities annoying and pushy at times) but he did mention two interesting things.

1. The smaller countries like Ireland (Who’s government is ohh so found of telling its citizens how “well respected” it is on the world stage) should take a stance at at least threaten to boycott the games (We won’t miss much anyhow, we rarely win anything)
2. Don’t watch them

The second is a really nice passive way of resistance.

Now considering that this post will now be filtered out by the Great firewall of China, I hope that the rest of this post will go unoticed by the Chinese authorities and we’ll all catch them by surprise.

Proposal

I propose that any blogger who feels strongly enough, make a simple post on the 30th of April 2008 with the title of “Why I think Tibet Should Be Free”/”Please Free Tibet” or something with Free and Tibet in the title. If you think independence is not needed you can also post something similar. You can include as little or as much in the post body as you want to.

If you use WordPress, you can even do it now, and select the publish date as the 30th April and forget all about it. I already have.

Sure its not as strong as storming the Chinese embassy, but its just another way we can all let the Chinese government (I doubt that they need reminding) that people in the world object to whats going on (BTW while I’m at it, China you should be ashamed of your conduct in relation toDarfur). As a side benifit, if enough blogs do this, it should send the Great Firewall into some serious filtering time.

Update: 00:04 01.04.08 – If you don’t feel like doing a blog post, on the 30th you can do simple things like set the status message of your IM client to read “Free Tibet” or similar. You can also do this with Facebook.