Posted on 04/07/2008 10:01:43 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Policemen surround the bus where the Beijing Olympics torch has been placed for safety reasons, Monday, April 7, 2008, during its relay through Paris. Chaos has struck the Olympic torch relay through Paris, with security officials extinguishing the flame three times amid raucous protests. The Eiffel tower is seen behind. (AP Photo/Patrick Kovarik, pool)
darn those tibetan yout’ anyway..
There are still heroes in France. Good to know.
I am so proud of these protesters. FREE TIBET! I think it's ludicrous if our country goes to the Olympics and pretends China isn't arresting and crushing people for speaking out. China is RELISHING the opportunity to have the U.S. there, bowing to their will.
This guy looks stuned.. all these years and ya end up carrying a coldstick.
French former tennis player Arnaud Di Pasquale reacts as he carries an extinguished Beijing Olympics flame in Paris. Pro-Tibet activists disrupted the Paris relay of the Beijing Olympic torch, clashing with police and three times forcing torchbearers to extinguish the flame and take refuge on a bus. (AFP/POOL/Patrick Kovarik)
isn’t better to go to China with a 100,000 video cameras which can not all be stopped.
We have the timeless picture of a single student stopping a tank, why not the same iconic imagry out of china.
Just wait for PETA to start protesting pate at the 2012 London games...
Anything which shines more attention on the actions of the PRC is a GOOD thing.
They are one of the only countries to have still operational gulags.....and yet they remain a trading partner with MFN status.
Disgusting.
I didn’t understand your comment. Are you comparing the oppression of an entire people with pate?
Hopefully some here too when the torch moves through San Francisco.
No mulligans for the Olympic torch! I think they should go back to Athens and start over.
Re: isn’t better to go to China with a 100,000 video cameras which can not all be stopped.
Try doing that in a totalitarian country like China.
Where in the world is -- oh, wait... never mind.
A worker cleans up the National Aquatics Center, also known as the "Water Cube", in Beijing April 7, 2008. Beijing is one of the most polluted cities in the world and, despite a 120 billion yuan ($17.12 billion) clean-up over the last decade, air quality remains a concern for many athletes coming to the Olympics, already a lightning rod for rights protests worldwide. REUTERS/Jason Lee (CHINA)
this is not about taking political enemies organs to be transplanted, and its not about aborting millions of female unborn children, or killing of female infants....
this is about the Dali Lama and Tibet....a very nice, quaint, politically correct cause that the moonbats in Howood like to support...
like I say, I don't know what to think of this...
Going there is implicitly sanctioning their treatment of dissenters. Unless the U.S. and other countries are planning to make a stand and boldly denounce China then shining cameras on them is meaningless. Where is Tibet after all these years? China is arresting people for protesting around the Olympics. What are we doing about it?
We are still buying Chinese products at our Walmarts and Targets.
And, if you look at the bottom of your computer mouse, chances are that it's made in China - unfortunately.
Oh, I know. My point is that if we want to make a statement that’s where we should do it.
Mine is made in China :(
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