Olympic Torch

[prowler]

Funny this all the little lemmings trying to get at the flame

[Hetzer]

Even funnier, all the innocent people being murdered and tortured in Tibet by a sub-human, criminal occupying force.
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[Mister James]

Mmmmmm Konnie Huq!

The Olympics disgust me in general - so much of MY money wasted just to inconvenience me and make a lot of people richer at my expense.

That we are pandering to this corrupted ideal without even bothering to censure China for abuses we admit are happening is disgraceful.
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[Skudd]

The more these interruptions keep going on the less i feel for the Tibetans,
the olympics are supposed to be a sign of peace, yes i know the money the politics brought in Blah Blah Blah yarn yarn yarn, but the fact that China has got the Olympics has brought the plight of the Tibetans to the world media.

are we all now going to slash the tyres or stop all those who ride Chines motorbikes? yes thats it, every time we see a chinese made item we smash it up and call anyone who is selling or using chinese items. Protest outside every take away and don't eat rice.
Or we could let them know by peace full methods how we all feel, remember that the guy putting a flower down the barrel of a tank has more impact than any of this charging on some poor sod who thinks that the flame is something to be proud of.
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[Villers]

What pisses me off is them attacking people in this country and protesting on what used to be OUR streets about something happening thousands of miles away in THEIR country.

If they have such a big problem with it why dont they fuck off and protest over there?? Why should our country and our people be disrupted by them?
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[Skudd]

You can say one thing though. Look how good the Police motorbikes work in situations like this. talk about an advert for bikers.
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[Kris]

[Skudd]

People protest in this country because they can.
In all seriousness I do think that the way China deals with Tibet does need addressing, but the protesters need to get at the business community and the Government that is in power at the time ( as all governments are just as bad when dealing with China)
Perhaps the only sign of peace that could be shown i.e. the Olympic torch could have been used better.
But you have to admit that there are alot of renta protest that seem to be everywhere whether it is tree felling, roads being built Tibet, pandas, save the slug or whatever.
I'm just glad, no matter what some may say, that these protesters could protest and I hope China is watching the responsible protesters and not the ones who invade others personal space, ironic when you think about what they are protesting about.
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[Kris]

[Mister James]

I watched a bit of the run live at the gym, and while I thought the police did quite a good job of jogging along like something out of "In the line of fire" I was rather concerned by the image it gave out - namely that in a supposedly peaceful western democracy we can't even have a few Z-listers jog through the capital without 20 bicycle and TSU peelers forming a rolling cordon around them. I was also quite concerned to see Chinese security personnel operating on our streets in a role that was a lot more than a polite 'guest appearance'.


I think our politicians are the bad guys in this one - not Konnie Huq, the police or the majority of the protesters. You can't even really blame the Chinese for trying to put a positive spin on their image - the buck stops with Brown.
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[Hetzer]

[Vin]

[Skudd]

It is a shame some of the muslim fanatics don't follow the way of the Tibetan monks who sit quietly, poor petrol over themselves then light the match. ( before you say it Scotland was just a fuck up)
I have a lot of respect for the way most Tibetans hold their composure and try to protest in the only ways that they are permitted, it is just the rent-a-protester in this and other european countries that get on my nerves and they play right into the hands of the Chinese.

I bet if you put a map infront of 50% of the protesters they wouldn't be able to find Tibet. I know I had to google earth it.
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[colin1]

[Kris]

[colin1]

[Kris]

Your argument is flawed. On the one hand you admit Chinese media is showing the Tibetans in a bad light to muster support for the killings and then you believe the stories (that's what they are - stories) about Tibetan protestors starting the violence. It just didn't happen that way.

But analysts say the reporting of the protests [in the media] is shaping attitudes within China, which were generally unsympathetic to Tibetans to start with.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7302625.stm
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[Kris]

Oh here you go Colin, some press releases from the 14th March regarding one of the earlier massacres by Chinese forces on peaceful protestors (not a small group of protestors at a later protest like in your post).

Around 50 monks from the Labrang Tashikyil Monastery staged a demonstration carrying the banned Tibetan national flag and called for "Tibetan Independence" around 2 p.m. (Beijing Time) today afternoon. Around 500 monks from the same monastery later joined the demonstration. The demonstration eventually grew into thousands when laypeople also joined in. The police started to fire live ammunitions in the air and started to beat when the demonstrators neared the Sangchu County Public Security Bureau headquarters

https://www.tchrd.org/press/2008/pr20080314b.html

violent blockage of peaceful demonstrators by the Chinese authorities have led to the current tension in Tibet. According to reports emerging from Tibet, 25 Tibetans have died during the tension on 14 March alone and hundreds of wounded Tibetans are hospitalized. Scores of Tibetans in various parts of Tibet have been arrested with many more midnight arrests and state sponsored enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions to take place in the coming few days through police CCTVs.

https://www.tchrd.org/press/2008/pr20080315a.html

https://www.tchrd.org/press/

Still, you believe the Chinese/BBC's word about Tibetans getting violent first all you want.
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[Mister James]

The problem is Kris, you've chosen a source that's likely to be as biased and one-sided as the BBC or the PRC. As is usual in these matters, everyone takes sides based on what they thought before the incident - and then picks the media/government line that suits them, labelling it The Truth.
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[Kris]

[rhone81]

I know someone who's nickname is "Olympic Torch" due to the fact he never goes out.

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[sickpup]