Re: The Chinese thugs who fought police and protestors

On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:04:59 -0700, claire.easthope wrote:

On 9 Apr, 22:39, FriarTuck <n...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:29:11 -0700, Mel Rowing wrote:
On Apr 9, 4:17 pm, A Monkey <mon...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3671368.ece

China's blue-clad flame attendants, whose aggressive methods of
safeguarding the Olympic torch have provoked international outcry,
are paramilitary police from a force spun off from the country's
army.

His comments came after Konnie Huq, the former Blue Peter presenter,
who was one of the torchbearers on Sunday, described how she had
seen the officials in "skirmishes" with the police.

Perhaps they did leave a bit of a taste in the mouth!

More seriously I have just heard a Chunese government official on BBC
News at 6.

He said (as far as I can quote verbatim)

"That no disruption of the torch as it crosses Tibet to Mount Everest
will not be tolerated. Anyone trying to cause trouble will be dealt
with severely. We shall not be merciful"

I'm not normally one for gesture politics such as boycotts and the
like, but if I were an athlete going to Beijing, I think I would be
re- considering my position."

but they knew exactly what China was like when they gave them the
olympics... they have not got any/much worse in the meantime...

Tibet is a tricky one, people say it was a feudal and quite harsh
regime before the chinese (and the yanks would surely use it as a
staging post if Independence declared...) , and I think the aggressive
demonstrations are counter productive, trying to grab the torch or stop
it is a bit too far, demonstrate by all means, but don't try and stop
it (read sun tzu...). (and don't listen to the agent provocateurs...)

though I think the whole flame running thing is an expensive pointless
spectacle anyway.

The Chinese (not so heavy in weight) heavies would be content to just
run along side it if people didn't get in their way I am sure.

hierarchical institutional corruption,

(or as we call it in English; Government shooting their critics in the
heads!)


I'm not saying China is great, but is shooting someone in the head worse
than dropping white phosphorous on them?


but can we really criticise?

Britain is also among the foremost
institutionally corrupt countries for all our airs and graces


YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME!!!

nope... iraq war ring any bells?

financial meltdown... ring any bells?

lawyers multi million pound fees... ring any bells

government screwing the poor of their 10% rate while letting rich and
ultra rich ba get away with evading taxes... ring any bells?

then can start getting into the worse stuff involving for example
institutional peadophilia rackets and rings.. de troux... wales...
jersey.. others....

and so on...
.

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