[Red in Blue PA]

With China holding the games, it should be extinguished for good......kind of a metaphor for what they are doing to millions of people.

[raybbr]

Yep, it's real easy for them to disrupt life anywhere but in China where the problem is.

[Sloth]

French torchbearers will be encircled by several hundred officers, some in riot police vehicles and on motorcycles, others on rollerblades and on foot. Chinese torch escorts will immediately surround the torchbearer, with Paris police on rollerblades moving around them. French firefighters in jogging shoes will encircle the officers on rollerblades while motorcycle police will form the outer layer of security

I had to check the source because this sounded so much like a joke.

[aynrandfreak]

Ok, back to Athens & start over!

[HD1200]

Kill the flame for good. Millions being spent running a ridiculous flame around the world. Don’t the olympic game hosts have a book of matches?

[TLI]

Quick...

[Mopp4]

Chinese torch escorts will immediately surround the torchbearer, with Paris police on rollerblades moving around them.

LOL...police on rollerblades ? What a great idea ! If you want to get away from them, just run across the grass....

[rock_lobsta]

Frankly, I’d like to see the US completely boycott these games. Not only for political reasons, but for the health of our athletes.

China is such a filthy country, but for some reason, they’re not held to any environmental standards - or any other standards for that matter.

IMO, the Olympics are crap anyway - not even worth watching.

[Caipirabob]

With China holding the games, it should be extinguished for good......kind of a metaphor for what they are doing to millions of people.

Wow, after years of hearing American liberals with their mindless whining, I actually feel like another country is hated more than the United States!

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Olympic torch extinguished during Paris leg

Did somebody say Paris leg?

[EBH]

The Olympic Torch Relay History: A Tradition Started by the Nazis?
Handling the Bitter Reality that Many of the Classic Olympic Traditions Were Started by Decree of the Third Reich, Hitler and Goebbels

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/692365/the_olympic_torch_relay_history_a_tradition.html

[patch789]

find the van carrying the
backup flame

.........................
where are the suicide bombers when we need them

[Hacklehead]

Does it surprise anyone that 3000 French police couldn’t protect 1 guy carrying a torch from 500 protestors?

[ex-Texan]

Protesters Support Tibet in the Streets of Paris

[Don Corleone]

When it gets to China it’ll starve for lack of oxygen and go out anyway. The pollution there makes L.A. look like the Arizona desert.

[Sloth]

French torchbearers will be encircled by several hundred officers, some in riot police vehicles and on motorcycles, others on rollerblades and on foot. Chinese torch escorts will immediately surround the torchbearer, with Paris police on rollerblades moving around them. French firefighters in jogging shoes will encircle the officers on rollerblades while motorcycle police will form the outer layer of security

Meanwhile, 80 Laotian unicyclists armed with machine guns will circle the motorcycles in counterclockwise fashion, supplemented by a crack squad of Eskimo ninjas riding in brightly colored armored rickshaws pulled by homosexual Maori tribesmen.

[Petronski]

Fittingly, it will move on after being re-lit with a shabby Chinese cigarette lighter.

[mngran2]

I’m hoping the crowds in San Francisco on Wednesday can do even more to disrupt the torch relay than those in Paris or London over the weekend. Finally, a useful outlet for all the nutjobs in SF. Throw the torch in the bay!

[indcons]

Check this out, folks!

[maggief]