I see China red the most popular color of this year. Chinese flag is
the most beautiful national flag in the world. One flag is more
powerful than ten thousand soldiers. I should find ways to get one
just to keep evil spirits away.
HAHAHA...
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:04:40 -0700 (PDT), tuna <tuna2@[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,
>------------
>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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