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.
All that said you have really got something with the phony Tibetan protester attacking the girl in the wheelchair.
ping to my last post
I posted on my site about that Army photo a week or so ago. The Chicoms are claiming it is an old photo and you can tell by looking at the uniforms. I live here and tell you that many Chinese soldier still wear that uniform. Even if it is an old photo it does beg the question as to why they have Tibetan robes in this one also. No need for Chinese soldiers to have Tibetan robes at all. The other photo isnt conclusive. It is possible they where just walking up the same path to the protest. Perhaps there is only one way to where they where going. But he does look awful happy and friendly in that crowd. After all the planted counter protest in S.F. I am going to lean towards this being a plant.
Typical way of China to flame the so-called patriotism or nationalism. They tried to make protesters look barbaric. Even though the girl looks innocent, please keep that in mind that in China equal opportunity and fair competition don’t exist for jobs and promotion as what we have here in USA. she has benefited from the system. Who knows what she did or what she has (a big-potato relative?) to get the role to hold the torch! Just hope when she gets older, she will eventually realize she has been lied all along and she has lost all her youth in pleasing other people, being vain, losing her own self, her fantasy, her dreams, and her beauty for an empty cause which (she doesn’t know) is actually a threat to the Earth, our mankind, and a beautiful world. Hope she will eventually stand up for her true freedom and happiness.
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