Olympic Torch protests
Anyone else watching this right now? 37 people arrested the other day during protests in London, now the torch is in Paris. Supposedly more than 3000 police (incl. motorcycle, rollerblade/foot, and riot cops) out to protect ~85 runners.
As of now the torch has been extinguished twice and the runners retreated to the bus under police protection. No word if they're going to re-light it yet...
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I hate protesters in anyway shape or form. Parasites.
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Yes god forbid anyone should stand up for something they believe in and speak out, we should just all sit at home and be lazy, complacent, compliant, sheep...Originally Posted by SimonS
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I hope China is paying attention, but I doubt it.
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I don't think it's to send a message to China so much as the people in charge of selecting the location of the Olympic games.
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they should just use a bunson burner instead of a torch. I burned a pencil with a bunson burner once. My teacher kicked me out of class. He said I was stupid.
LITTLE DID HE KNOW THAT I ENDED UP WITH A C- IN HIS CLASSS!! who's stupid now FUCKFACE
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If I was one of those runners I'd just start beating people with the torch.
I'll bring that bitch a teddy bear. Bitches love teddy bears.
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So... what are they being dicks for?
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I'm off to China in August and will be in Beijing for the Olympics. Its my honeymoon and we've wanted to go there for a long time. We had no plans on going to the Olympics and it wasn’t planned to coincide with it being there. I'm torn between seeing what is a once in a life time event, as they'll put on a good planned show, ( unlike us Brits 4 years later cos we cant even organise the opening of an airport terminal ) and it'll be hard not to get into the 'mood' of the event while there, but I'm also under the belief that its good to make a stand not going, albeit mine would be a small gesture.
The Chinese authorities recently opened up full access for its people to the BBC website, including access to the Tibet and Olympic stories. Some Chinese have posted their views (well I guess its not the authorities 'dodgy' posting) and they seem to feel that their side isn't shown, that the Tibetans really are waging a terrorist/guerrilla campaign against them, and that their government does look out for their best interests & that if they should need to use force in Tibet, then its justified.
I'm looking forward to going, but knowing my love of arguing politics and religion with people and saying things out loud; I know I'm heading towards causing allot of arguments with people there.
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