Posted on 04/13/2008 6:21:14 PM PDT by John Jorsett
When the Olympic torch was carried through Paris, the Chinese scored a propaganda coup when a group of Tibetan protesters attacked a young woman in a wheelchair who was, at that time, bearing the torch. One of the protesters got through the French police and actually wrestled the woman for the torch, but she fended him off until he was pulled away by policemen. This photo of the attack by the protester, who sported a Tibetan flag on his head, was widely publicized around the world, especially in China:
The pretty young woman, Jin Jing, became an instant heroine:
A wheelchair-bound Chinese fencer who carried the Olympic torch in Paris has rocketed to national fame after she fended off pro-Tibet protesters.
Jin Jing, a 27 year-old amputee and Paralympic fencer, has been called the "angel in a wheelchair" and is being celebrated on television chat shows, in newspapers and in online musical videos
She fiercely defended the Olympic torch during the Paris section of the troubled international relay.
Most of the protesters were wrestled away by police but at least one reached her wheelchair and tried to wrench the torch away.
Jin clung tenaciously on until her attacker was pulled off.
Shots of the fiercely determined sportswoman shielding the torch have inflamed simmering public anger in China against the Tibet protests.
In this incident, the Chinese seem to have caught a lucky break--one of the few, lately, in regard to the Olympics. But Chinese-origin bloggers in Japan have been doing some research, and Dafydd ab Hugh, who reads those blogs in Japanese, notes that they made an interesting discovery: there are other photographs of the protester who attacked Jin Jing, taken the same day, including this one, which shows him in the company of a group of pro-China protesters:
It's clearly the same guy, with the Tibetan flag on his head. Note that there are two others in the crowd who appear to be wearing Tibetan flags around their shoulders. Dafydd and the Chinese-Japanese bloggers suspect that the apparent Tibetan protesters mixed in with the pro-Chinese contingent--amicably, it seems--are agents provocateur, and that the "Tibetan" attack on the wheelchair-bound torch bearer was orchestrated by the Chinese government.
Other oddities have appeared. Dafydd writes that Chinese bloggers have circulated this photo of a group of Chinese soldiers, each of whom is carrying a Tibetan monk's robe:
I don't think these photographs are conclusive, but the question whether some "Tibetan" protesters are in fact false-flag Chinese agents certainly warrants looking into.
When are we going to tell them to shove it...
Standard ChiCom tactic. I’m not surprised.
When Americans take back their country from the RINOS, neocons and corporations...
Pei-Ping!
Apparently when it gets too expensive for us to look the other way. Gonna be a while though.
Phony Tibetans.
Shades of Helmet Guy!
Once again Internet bloggers find the story the MSM is too stupid or lazy to uncover.
Very interesting
I was thinking the same thing!
Yeah, I think might be the third thing you mentioned.
It’s a typical leftist ploy. We’ll see plenty of this in Denver if Hitlery doesn’t drop out of the race.
Doesn’t surprise me at all.
I do watch the TV network & local news, and it is amazing what I read here, that they feel is less worthy of being reported, while the 'compelling' umpteenth "study" of prostate, uterine, or breast cancer gets big play.
To be fair, they sometimes do report some of the stories I read here...about 2-5 weeks AFTER I read them here, along with several follow-ups.
Thanks, MSM, in unknowingly pom-pomming for your allies in arms you have ticked off a lot of Dalai Lama Liberals.
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