ROFL
On Apr 28, 7:07=A0pm, ":))" <bennypo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:04:40 -0700 (PDT), tuna <tu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >As I mentioned, Red China made the same tactics as in San
> >Francisco !!!
> >Pro china sup****ters brought mass of big flags, banners moving around
> >to cover all Tibet's, Vietnam's, Burma's flags. They had free lunches,
> >T-****rts and bused from other local cities to the city. Their luggages
> >piles up on the groups blocking the walkway to the ceremony stage. But
> >in San Francisco, the torch hadn't made to the gigantic stage
> >(cameras, lightings, and hundreds of empty chairs on stage)
>
> >tuna,
>
> Shame shame on China and its clowns !
>
> >------------
> >On Apr 26, 10:06 am, 1mitee <haivt...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> Herald Sun
> >> Australia
>
> >> China sent in the clowns
>
> >> Andrew Bolt
> >> April 25, 2008 12:00am
>
> >> IF I hadn't seen the circus with my own eyes, I'd think the $2
million
> >> we spent running a torch around Canberra yesterday was wasted.
>
> >> But I watched almost every comical minute of that three-hour relay of
> >> the Beijing Olympic torch and thought - hallelujah! - money well
> >> spent.
>
> >> Far from blowing yet more cash on the most overhyped s****ts day in
> >> history, we'd been given a lesson on truth and politics that's worth
> >> even Kevan Gosper's head in gold.
>
> >> I don't think we'll soon forget seeing Australian police wrestling
the
> >> Chinese "flame attendants" - actually members of China's People's
> >> Armed Police - in a confrontation over who had the right to guard the
> >> torch.
>
> >> Priceless! Here was a rehearsal for the first Australia-China war,
> >> live on television. How I laughed.
>
> >> I loved in particular how our nervous police tried repeatedly to
shove
> >> those blue-tracksuited Chinese ones out of camera shot so at least
> >> viewers wouldn't see they'd been conned by their politicians. I mean,
> >> weren't we promised by our Prime Minister those Chinese guards
> >> wouldn't be there?
>
> >> In a ceremony filled with cant, hypocrisy, fakes and frauds, that was
> >> the money shot. The one that showed us the truth at last behind the
> >> spin. The truth about China, about the Beijing Olympics and about our
> >> own leaders.
>
> >> You might remember when it was first rumoured that the torch would be
> >> run through Canberra with a phalanx of People's Armed Police, which
> >> the Chinese regime uses to, among other things, impose its will on
> >> Tibet.
>
> >> Just what knucklehead thought this was how to advertise a
totalitarian
> >> regime's "friendliness", I do not know. I suspect, though, he's now
> >> off for re-education of the kind for which the country is famous, and
> >> which help to inspire all the protests along the torch relay that
> >> China so amusingly calls "the Journey of Harmony".
>
> >> And, indeed, those blue guards have given China exactly the publicity
> >> it deserved and did not want, tangling with protesters in Istanbul,
> >> London and Paris, and being branded "thugs" by the head of London's
> >> 2012 Games.
>
> >> Personally, I thought the guards were a great touch, illustrating the
> >> hypocrisy of giving the Olympics to an oppressive regime that planned
> >> to use it not to promote world peace, or whatever the International
> >> Olympic Federation last claimed, but the dawn of the Chinese century,
> >> in which its authoritarian values will be ex****ted around the world.
>
> >> But the Rudd Government fast realised those guards would give it some
> >> blues of its own, especially given Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was
> >> already seen by many as too close to autocratic China, and too
hostile
> >> to more democratic allies such as Japan, whose crime was to slaughter
> >> whales rather than Tibetans.
>
> >> And so here are the assurances it progressively trotted out. From the
> >> Attorney-General: "Robert McClelland has denied a re****t that China
> >> had asked Australia for permission for People's Liberation Army
troops
> >> to help guard the Olympic torch when it comes to Australia."
>
> >> From Rudd: "If there are representatives from the Beijing Olympic
> >> Committee attending the torch when it is in Australia, my
> >> understanding from the Australian authorities is that they would be
> >> travelling in an accompanying bus."
>
> >> From Rudd again: "We will not be having Chinese security forces or
> >> Chinese security services providing security for the torch . . ."
>
> >> Let's summarise: according to our Government, the Chinese did not ask
> >> to send military guards, and the guards who actually did arrive would
> >> not leave the bus, and the ones who did leave the bus would not guard
> >> the flame. Which, ahem, they did as well.
>
> >> Is that clear? And so we watched three Chinese guards - actually
here,
> >> actually running with the torch and actually shoving police to get
> >> closer.
>
> >> You see, they were under orders higher than Rudd's to protect this
> >> symbol of China's pride. Only a day earlier, a senior Beijing Games
> >> official, Qu Yingpu, said in Canberra that these "flame attendants"
> >> would "use their body to form a kind of defence" if the torch was
> >> attacked. Hence that arm-wrestling you saw. Hence that lesson in
> >> Chinese diplomacy and in this Government's credibility.
>
> >> That wasn't the only joke - and lesson - of the day.
>
> >> The other memorable image of this "Journey of Harmony" was the torch
> >> being run past brawling protesters, many bused in by the Chinese
> >> Government, while a dogfight broke out in the skies above. Somehow a
> >> battle with a newly muscled China was being staged on our soil, with
> >> China's regime even mobilising troops.
>
> >> Some 50 buses, we've learned, were laid on to take thousands of
> >> aggressively pro-Chinese sup****ters from Sydney and Melbourne to
> >> Canberra, where they were deployed to drown out and intimidate people
> >> protesting against China's record on Tibet and human rights.
>
> >> Indeed, Uighur, Tibetan and other protesters yesterday claimed they'd
> >> been howled down, abused, punched and kicked by some of the pro-China
> >> demonstrators, several of whom were arrested.
>
> >> So who were all these people singing patriotic Chinese songs and
> >> waving huge red flags for the cameras? Who formed this insta-crowd
> >> that filled the TV screens and allowed China's Xinhua newsagency to
> >> re****t back home the bright news that "tens of thousands of
> >> spectators, many of them enthusiastic Chinese expatriates and
> >> students, had lined both sides of the streets . . . chanting sup****t
> >> for the Beijing Olympics"?
>
> >> They were mainly students from China's elite, it appears - students
> >> who, as a condition of their visas, had actually signed agreements
> >> promising "not (to) become involved in any activities that are
> >> disruptive to, or in violence threaten harm to, the Australian
> >> community or any group in the Australian community".
>
> >> And who paid for their free buses to Canberra, and issued all those
> >> Beijing Games T-****rts and Chinese flags?
>
> >> Ask Zhang Rongan of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association,
who
> >> helped recruit the pro-China protesters, and said the Chinese embassy
> >> in Canberra "is organising buses, food and places to stay".
>
> >> Whoever did organise all that sure impressed Ted Quinlan, head of the
> >> committee in charge of the Canberra torch relay, who admitted: "(It
> >> is) obviously a well co-ordinated plan to take the day by weight of
> >> numbers."
>
> >> Well co-ordinated is right. There was even a plane trailing a "Go Go
> >> Beijing Olympics" banner that reclaimed the skies from the plane
hired
> >> by the Greens to sky-write "Free Tibet".
>
> >> Gosh, I thought this was Australia. But as I said, it was worth the
$2
> >> million for this lesson - that it might not quite be. Not always.
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