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Headlines : Human RightsParis Olympic Torch Relay Is Cut Short - Flame Snuffed Out
...extinguishing the flame was significant because the torch was supposed to be kept alight on its journey around the world.
“It’s supposed to symbolise peace between nations,” he said.
“It’s clearly a massive blow to the organisers – the demonstrations along the route have had the desired effect.”
Similarly chaotic scenes were seen when the Olympic flame was carried through London.
[Posted By gaanjah_mama]Republished from Sky news
The flame had already been extinguished four times by security forces after repeated clashes with pro-Tibet and human rights campaigners.
The demonstrations also saw the city’s mayor cancel a ceremony to mark the torch’s passing.
The decision was made after a Tibetan flag was draped over the city hall’s facade.
Thousands of police sent on to the streets to protect the torch relay as it made its way around the city were unable to prevent demonstrators hijacking the event.
It meant the torch had to be repeatedly put out amid safety fears.
The event began with several hundred people waving banners gathering on the Trocadero esplanade where the relay started.
Several activists were later arrested, with some handcuffing themselves to the Eiffel Tower.
Posted by gaanjah_mama
Harold: "You're good with people."
Maude: "Well, they're my species."
Good video on subject
It is a reminder of Viet Nam War protests. People are frustrated by many things: jobs, environment, wars, genocide, etc. China’s upcoming Olympics act like a lightning rod.
Thanks for the post Dilated. The coverage in Australia has been sparse since the London incidents.
Being an ex-athlete, I’m a bit torn with this issue. However, I think the athletes should compete if they want to and protest if they want to as well.
As if to corroborate the extinguishing of the Olympic Flame in Paris, at least twice,
‘The French’ have called off their mission to ‘save’ Ingrid Betancourt.
I wonder if the Hep B meme was Penn’s idea. That doesn’t have Bernard’s trademark. The Sat Phone yes. Hi-res memes? Nyette.
We still don’t know where the Satellite Phone that made Reyes the easy target (all of a sudden) — we still don’t know where that came from. Although the obvious choice would be Bernard. And surely that is what the FARC is thinking also. That the French are Greeks Bearing Gifts and that any medical team negotiated between Sarko and Uribe FFS, would also have a nice little Satellite Phone in there somewhere.
If you find out where that Satellite Phone came from, do me a favor and confirm whether or not it was an Iridium phone. Of course it was. Who / what else could it have been?
Let’s review how the old story goes again, my mapping algorithms are choking. Paris steals Helen by telling Aphrodite exactly what she wanted to hear) and brings the wrath of Achilles down on Troy. Right? But, actually, that was just a PR stunt to justify Piracy and Genocide on the part of the victors who, in the old days, owned all the blind poets. Achilles was the guy with the heel.
The glass is pretty dark. I can’t make out a damn thing.
Who’s the guy with the heel?
Reading tea leaves is SUCH a bitch.
Let us now all recall that Tibet’s Feudal version of Buddhism went through a lot of trouble to explain to peasants that their poverty and suffering was their karma because of crimes committed in a previous life.
Speaking of Opium Wars.
And then let us ask ourselves, exactly why, and how, French “security” — tighter for the Olympic Flame than it had been for George Bush — was “unable” to stop the protesters from “forcing” security to extinguish the flame.
I checked, it was NOT GB Shaw who said Religion is the Opiate of the Masses — what George said was Work is the Curse of the Drinking Classes.
a not irrelevant quip in this context.
Bread and Circuses, billion dollar incomes over athletes’ lifetimes, including endorsements, in the tradition of Greek “Democracy” but where everyone with enough land to plant a TV gets a vote on which channel to tune in to, athletes branded like cattle, people and their children brainwashed in the bargain. It’s no wonder the Olympics almost always draw forth protests, even though the focus may turn toward other different, special, equally longstanding real or perceived complaints about the ruling classes here or there. Niggahs of the world unite, you only have your sandlot sports events to win or lose.
das ilLUSion of choicel
Lenin said Religion is the Opiate of the Masses
Pre-Socratic philosophers had reached the same conclusion.
Was it not marx who said that religion is a symptom, of “diesease?” And that people developed religion as a “cure” to the symptom?
I could be wrong, im sure it could have been lennin; shit it could have been anyone with common sense and critical thinking capabilities.
Funny observation:
The Los Angeles Times (a so-called liberal newspaper) did not run a single direct mention of what happened in Paris. I called this out to my friends yesterday, I figured it’d be good to inform us here on Gnn that American media has basically ignored and brushed aside any “Free Tibet” demonstrations.
What if Venezuela, Iran, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Cuba had done in their respective countries, what China did in Tibet???
Military coup-d’etat? military strike? embargo/sanctions?
American government = Terrorists
BOYCOTT BEIJING
You are correct, Marx said it.