Mr. Rudd a liar ?
How about you ? A saint ????
On Apr 28, 10:04 am, 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,
> ------------
> 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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