Olympic Torch Relay Protests

2008-04-07 08:36:06

#1

Mekstizzle: WALKER; +3,611|7046|London, England

I can't wait until someone finally gets the torch, and then throws it in a river or something. The world is trying

London came sort of close, but failed

Paris tried,

With some success:

Wiki wrote:
Widespread anti-Chinese and free-Tibet protest prompted relay authorities to put out the flame and load the torch onto a bus in Paris twice

French security officials cancelled the torch relay after protestors hung a Tibetan flag on City Hall.

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Can the United States (San Fran is after Paris) pull it off and dash it into the Bay? Here's hoping so...

2008-04-07 08:46:08

#2

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6896

I was just coming here to look for a thread on this topic actually... after reading the latest BBC News articles on it- very interesting!

I can't believe that the Olympic games in China are still going forward to be honest. China right now represents a lot of things that the Olympic games and other participating states resent, and what with the hosting-city being constantly polluted under a blanket of insufferable smog... as well as the absolutely disgraceful political conduct of the Chinese party.

Strange days. The Olympic Committee tried to give China a chance to show that they can be a coexisting part of a modern-day world-- but so far they've done nothing but tarnish their own reputation and blacken their own name. Very strange.

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2008-04-07 08:46:27

#3

ghettoperson: Member; +1,943|7074

Lolz. It'd be awesome if someone managed to do it.

2008-04-07 08:49:09

#4

Mekstizzle: WALKER; +3,611|7046|London, England

ghettoperson wrote:
Lolz. It'd be awesome if someone managed to do it.

Especially if they snatched it, and then pulled off a sprint to the river bank that would put any running athlete to shame, and then a throw into a River that would put a javelin athlete to shame. He/She would be immortalised forever with mad respect

2008-04-07 09:03:26

#5

FallenMorgan: Member; +53|6339|Glendale, CA

Go free people of the world!

2008-04-07 09:29:39

#6

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,072|7197|PNW

Who has the time to protest something as [ultimately] inconsequential as the Olympics?

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2008-04-07 09:29:59)

2008-04-07 09:34:38

#7

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|7026|132 and Bush

It has been extinguished five times now. I don't understand, the protesters act as if the runners are attacking the Dali Lama himself. Where is the logic? It's headed for San Fransisco next.

Xbone Stormsurgezz

2008-04-07 09:37:34

#8

FallenMorgan: Member; +53|6339|Glendale, CA

They wanna get rid of it, because the PRC is a bunch of dickfaces.

2008-04-07 09:40:33

#9

chittydog: less busy; +586|7260|Kubra, Damn it!

A better way to protest is for no one to go to the Olympics. Athletes/heads of state included.

2008-04-07 09:41:20

#10

Braddock: Agitator; +916|6715|Éire

Maybe the torch is like those joke birthday candles that you can't blow out?

2008-04-07 14:02:22

#11

NateW: my sigs worse than yours; +191|6558

Sometimes I wonder if the people protesting even give a shit, or if they're just protesting because they hear about it in the news, and think that protesting china is the new thing to do.

2008-04-07 14:04:15

#12

CameronPoe: Member; +2,925|6980

NateWiese wrote:
Sometimes I wonder if the people protesting even give a shit, or if they're just protesting because they hear about it in the news, and think that protesting china is the new thing to do.

90% attention whore. 10% know where Lhasa is.

2008-04-07 14:06:05

#13

GunSlinger OIF II: Banned.; +1,860|7069

Mek-Izzle wrote:
I can't wait until someone finally gets the torch, and then throws it in a river or something. The world is trying

London came sort of close, but failed

Paris tried,

With some success:

Wiki wrote:
Widespread anti-Chinese and free-Tibet protest prompted relay authorities to put out the flame and load the torch onto a bus in Paris twice
French security officials cancelled the torch relay after protestors hung a Tibetan flag on City Hall.
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Can the United States (San Fran is after Paris) pull it off and dash it into the Bay? Here's hoping so...

lot of angry chinese people in the bay area

2008-04-07 14:42:57

#14

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|7026|132 and Bush

Oh god. Our turn to act like idiots is up next.
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Olympic-T … ihez5H2ocA

Xbone Stormsurgezz

2008-04-07 14:49:04

#15

maffiaw: ph33r me 傻逼; +40|6846|Melbourne, AUS

Way to go jump on the bandwagon OP and a few others. Go read up the [i] extremely complex[\i] historical context and political vested interest that is underlying the so called "Tibet crisis" before you start to judge another country, culture and society steeped in history about 20+ times longer than yours (the US I mean).

And a word of advice: try not the swallow up the "free" media's opinionated news like its chocolate body paint or you'll get yourself burnt.

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2008-04-07 15:05:46

#16

FallenMorgan: Member; +53|6339|Glendale, CA

Tibet gave up when the PRC pressured them. Now they want freedom from an oppressive regime. The People's Republic of China is a really sucky government - the cultural revolution of the 70s eliminated a lot of old Chinese culture, Mao and his five year plans killed millions of people, and we all know about Tianamen Square.

America has it's own things like that. For example, the whole Penn state (was it penn state or Ohio something? Forgot) thing, the US invasion of Native American territory, the irrational head-butting with the SU during the cold war, and so on. That doesn't mean it's okay, it just means nations are prone to imposing their will on people.

2008-04-07 15:06:10

#17

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|7026|132 and Bush

Instead we should be climbing bridges and spitting on Olympic runners? That type of negative attention serves the attention starved, not Tibet.

Xbone Stormsurgezz

2008-04-07 15:06:32

#18

Mekstizzle: WALKER; +3,611|7046|London, England

I've actually been pro-Tibetan independence for a long time now. I know I'm abit Hypocritical, seeing as I'm sort of pro-Israeli, but the Tibetan people seem much more deserving than Arabs, who have blood on their hands themselves throughout history that what's going on now to them is almost payback, whereas the Tibetans don't seem to be deserving any of this. Especially from a Chinese state that is effectively destroying the culture of China (and now trying to do the same in Tibet) and turning it into a typical Socialist/Communist state (I'm talking culturally, I know they're not really Communist, but I hope you get what I mean)

There is nothing to it man, Han Chinese were never part of the Tibetan Plataeu, I don't know where China get the crap that Tibet has always been apart of China.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/Asia_400ad.jpg

2008-04-07 15:25:03

#19

ghettoperson: Member; +1,943|7074

maffiaw wrote:
Way to go jump on the bandwagon OP and a few others. Go read up the [i] extremely complex[\i] historical context and political vested interest that is underlying the so called "Tibet crisis" before you start to judge another country, culture and society steeped in history about 20+ times longer than yours (the US I mean).

And a word of advice: try not the swallow up the "free" media's opinionated news like its chocolate body paint or you'll get yourself burnt.

To be honest, China's occupation of Tibet has always been something that has irritated me, and has nothing to do with the riots.

2008-04-07 15:32:41

#20

Mekstizzle: WALKER; +3,611|7046|London, England

Here's some more historical maps

http://thomaslessman.com/History/images/

2008-04-07 15:37:02

#21

CameronPoe: Member; +2,925|6980

I had to make a choice last year whether to explore mainland China or do Beijing and then Tibet. I chose the former because I was worried about altitude sickness and the fact I was travelling on my own but hopefully someday I will get to see the Potala Palace with my own eyes:

https://farm1.static.flickr.com/39/117704914_fb0c854bb7.jpg?v=0

2008-04-07 15:37:14

#22

SgtSlutter: Banned; +550|7063|Amsterdam, NY

maffiaw wrote:
Way to go jump on the bandwagon OP and a few others. Go read up the [i] extremely complex[\i] historical context and political vested interest that is underlying the so called "Tibet crisis" before you start to judge another country, culture and society steeped in history about 20+ times longer than yours (the US I mean).

And a word of advice: try not the swallow up the "free" media's opinionated news like its chocolate body paint or you'll get yourself burnt.

Mek isnt even from the US you dikite

2008-04-07 15:45:16

#23

ghettoperson: Member; +1,943|7074

CameronPoe wrote:
I had to make a choice last year whether to explore mainland China or do Beijing and then Tibet. I chose the former because I was worried about altitude sickness and the fact I was travelling on my own but hopefully someday I will get to see the Potala Palace with my own eyes:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/39/11770 … b7.jpg?v=0

Give me a shout if you need anyone to go with, I've wanted to go for years.

2008-04-07 16:59:50

#24

FallenMorgan: Member; +53|6339|Glendale, CA

Tibet was part of the Qing Empire, and then part of the Republic of China for a little while. Ethnically they are not the same as Chinese. It was less about uniting China and more about power.

2008-04-07 17:11:27

#25

S.Lythberg: Mastermind; +429|6872|Chicago, IL

Who wants to bet most of these protesters can't locate Tibet on the map?

https://www.nepalhiking.com/images/tibet_map.gif

<--- there it is!

that said, Tibet is a huge swath of China's territory, and I'm willing to bet they are about as likely to give it up as America would be to give up Alaska to the natives who live there.

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