Protesters scale Golden Gate Bridge
Apr 8th, 2008 by ian
Amazing shots of the Pro-Tibet protesters hanging two huge banners from the Golden Gate Bridge days before the Olympic torch passes through SF, on it’s way to China.
I still don’t really get why China was awarded the Olympics. They’re kind of bad at the human rights & equality thing. It looks like the protesting around the world might actually end the torch relay…
Meanwhile, International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said the committee would consider ending the international leg of the Beijing Olympic torch relay because of anti-Chinese protests.
Rogge told The Associated Press he was ”deeply saddened” by violent protests in London and Paris and concerned about the upcoming torch relay in San Francisco, where activists expressed fears Monday that the torch’s planned route through Tibet would lead to arrests and violent measures by Chinese officials trying to stifle dissent.
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Rogge said the IOC’s executive board would discuss ending the international leg in a meeting Friday.
April 8th, 2008 at 7:50 am
Aryan ideals, not ancient Greece, were the inspiration behind flame tradition
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/others/aryan-ideals-not-ancient-gr.html-were-the-inspiration-behind-flame-tradition-805746.html
wonder if Jac is ‘deeply saddened’ by the violence in China and Tibet and …
April 8th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
way to ruin hitler’s legacy hippies.
April 8th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Dalailama is such a messer~~ Olympic game is just a feast, people who like it, join it, if someone has other problems, solve it at other time, don’t ruin the people who want to enjoy.
I really don’t understand how Dalailama define “human right”. As I know, before 1950’s, Tibet is under controled by Dalailama as slavery, innocent people’s life were raped and sacrificed to their bloody “religion”. Even Dalailama is exiled now, he and his followers are still trying to destroy the Tibet society, as it happened in March, the Dalai clique burnt innocent citizen’s house, 20-year-old girl was burnt alive! hooooo~ horrible! I can’t imagine what will happen if offer these crazy people the “human right” they want, that is not gonna happen! because Dalailama and his followers all over the world are MURDERERS!
I am not any government’s guard, but let’s open our own eyes before we use the term such as “human right” or “government crackdown” when talking about china’s issue, as we know, china is a very complex country, multi-culture, multi-religion, multi-ethnics… oh, besides, they have billions of population, there is no second such complex country in this world any more, Frankly speaking, china’s government has already done the best to balance the benefits to all the people with different interests, what they have done is the best choice, we can’t be too judgmental. Maybe it is not as perfect as in ideal world, but when I traveled to Lhasa, what i saw is a prosperous city, i can’t ignore china government’s contributions to tibet, those schools and hospitals, those luxury hotels and plateau railways…I was impressed by how rich the citizens and Lama’s were.
I really can’t see why Dalailama keep claiming that china’s goverment holocaust 12 million Tibetans during 1950’s, which actually by then, the total population of tibetan was only 3million~~ it’s really doubtable, isn’t it?! Well, anyway, as an exiled “leader”, Dalailama has to lie sometime, otherwise how to keep his pathetic followers!
April 9th, 2008 at 7:34 am
uh oh,
sounds like someone forgot to take their med’s this morning..
April 9th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
wonder if cici is chinese?
maybe this is the ‘official’ story via chinese propaganda? or a populist’s understanding through what information they can get or are fed?
what a strange time we live in.
April 9th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
I agree with some of the points that cici has made.
The U.S. is kind of “bad at the human rights and equality thing.”