Shanghaiist: The Olympic flame now in San Francisco, IOC mulls cancellation of remaining international leg of torch relay

taihanasie

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:47:39 +0800

Note that the SF route was quiet because the relay route was altered. Nobody knew where the torch was. The site of the ceremony was also altered. The fact that the relay route and the site of the ceremony had to be altered in the first place to avoid protesters should say something.

bamboos

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:31:42 +0800

vladivostok pls go to freetibet website and sign up. pls tell them you are currently a foreigner living in Shanghai, is able to offer them some help to grab the torch during its Shanghai relay. btw, could you tell me the result that how much you got paid. i can pay you double for this info if you can provide all evidents. just for curiosity. :-D

vladivostok

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:32:45 +0800

Those protestors got paid? Really? By whom? Has that been verified by international media? That's a lot of people to pay... I'm out of a job at the moment. Where does one sign up?

concor1

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:18:04 +0800

yeah, a few of them admited they got paid. one even yelled"free japan", not deserve all those money!

hotshotdebut

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:47:40 +0800

Now those homeless people around Union Square can have work for the time being. The Tibet Organizations really pay well.

EL JEFE

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:31:35 +0800

Shanghai Daily printing captions like: "It's the heart of the matter ... Jin Jing, a disabled Chinese fencer and torchbearer, closes her eyes and holds tightly to the torch after an assault by a Western man who tried to snatch away her pride and joy. - Thibault Camus" coupled with pictures that make you want to commit suicide seems designed to foment this sucker even more. Can I go on the record as saying that instead of saying "Western man," the caption should read either nut-job or crackpot? Even though I am a Westerner, I don't want to be lumped together with these people. And then Richard's comment above makes me think that finding even more reasons to hate Westerners is just what a lot of folks out here have been looking for. For these other nut-jobs, this sort of nonsense justifies their latent suspicious and pre-existing hatred of all things foreign. Let the games begin already and fuck all this noise.

richardlee

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:36:48 +0800

no. Please don't cancel it. we are expecting to see those antics, clowns, stooges. Our audiences' joy should not be deprived! anybody can lobby IOC?