Posted on 04/09/2008 11:14:20 AM PDT by Smogger
Get your popcorn boys and girls this is going to be good.
China has lined up 1000's of supporters, while protestors range from Tibetan monks and their supporters, Burmese Monks, other critics of China, and your usual rabble rousers.
While Aaron is probably a flaming loon, he hit the nail on the head on this point.
nbc 11 in SF has a reporter who is a torch bearer on the Bus with a phone and they say the chinese gov took control of the operation last night and they are going to have the ceremony as the airport.
The scuttlebutt one reporter shared is it looked like the chinese government was allowed to call the shots since last noght and All the agencies involved had to do it their way..
What a mess whoever was in charge.
Her Blum of a husband has made billions from her power in the Senate
I wouldn’t doubt her dirty hands are in on this PR for China fiasco.
I wouldn’t doubt her dirty hands are in on this PR for China fiasco.
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she’s got a sock puppet replacement as Mayor, wouldn’t surprise me in the least,, willie brown was riding the press bus I think as well.. a bunch of weasels..
I despise the fact that the Red Chinese government had anything to do with operations on American soil.
BUT
If it was Newsom who orchestrated this at the last second, at least he kept violence from happening.
This whole affair probably should have just been cancelled, given observation of Europe, and what a common-sense intelligence operation for the SF government should have been able to figure out. (Note: I'm not talking about an ugly kind of intelligence with intrigue, just "we're having this event, what the heck are groups planning on doing?" common-sense info-gathering.)
I think the reality is that this is egg mostly on the face of Red China and the IOC. And I couldn't be happier!
-Yossarian
Amateur Athlete
All the local stations are back on regular programming..
On to Argentina..
The key word here is “allowed”, they could not have done with if somebody who should have known better didn’t decide to just hand over the reins.
My guess is that the CCP used their leverage with the significant ethnic Chinese voting population of SF to force Newsome’s hand and like the spineless weasel that he is he immediately caved.
It sounds like Willie Brown was supposed to be a torch-bearer, but apparently he either got lost in the shuffle or vetoed by the Chi-Comms.
What a shame - Willie Brown is such an exemplar for high Olympian ideals! /s
It may be true that mayhem was widely avoided as they ran the initial relay course backwards ‘til it choked up with regrouping protesters, it definitely could have gotten nasty so he does deserve credit for that.
That the IOC and China bear the brunt for it even coming to this in the first place is a shame in more than a few folks minds.
Yup. And yet she gets easily reelected term after term by the stupid leftists who are supposed to be such supporters of human rights!
Madness. Utter madness.
Willie Brown was one of the last torch bearers and oddly, was the one who first confirmed that the torch & company was heading to SFO to say goodbye to the ChiComs.
Someone call the Waaahhhhhmbulance.
8mm
Gee! How original.
I was down on the Embarcadero and around Justin Herman Plaza from about 9:30 am to about 4:00 pm. There is no way that torch was going down the Embarcadero. Simply no way. There were thousands of protestors there and very few cops. Had the torch appeared there would have been pandemonium. The whole thing should have been cancelled. Having a fake-out is just a lousy commie trick.
This is humiliating for Communist China, which is great.
Meanwhile our own govt. is sleeping with the enemy. It’s difficult to even buy most things, if they are not made in China. We are help Red China to make it’s military even stronger. How dumb is that? Red China is the enemy.
I send away for Made in U.S.A. clothes, but I wish I could do more.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
This has turned out to be a great PR stunt for the American and Chinese Communists
All “conflict” was virtually avoided and America will seem like --to the over one Billion Chinese in China-- a dangerous place where something as peaceful and unifying as carrying the Olympic Torch through a large city in the USA has to have a police escort.
All the Tibet protest stuff...including the GG Bridge incident earlier this week... will not be seen in China.
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