I’ve just watched the footage of London’s Metropolitan Police knock a CNN cameraman to the ground twice during the fiasco of the Olympic torch passing through London. They then kicked him to the ground again and at least two of them started kicking him in the head. All on film and just broadcast on CNN.
What the fuck are the UK police doing kicking the crap out of journalists just to protect Beijing’s fucking Olympic torch?
So much for the British sense of irony. The Chinese used less force putting down the riots in Tibet. How does this work again? We use hundreds of police to beat the living daylights out of people involved in legitimate political protest in a so-called Western democracy and then turn round to China and say that they, er, shouldn’t kick the crap out of people involved in peaceful protest? I can see CCTV in Beijing doing a little piece on British police brutality.
Some New Labour fuckwit was on the TV the other day saying how people have the right to public protest. What he forgot to add is that in our new police state the police have the right to kick the crap out of you. Especially if you’re a journalist.
I hope CNN sue the shit out of the Metropolitan Police.
I saw some ruckus on CCTV9 were a fella ran up to a girl holding the torch.
She was all smiles, like she didn’t know what the bollocks was going on. Cut to next scene where the coppers have wrestled the guy (in a brown jacket) to the ground.
They weren’t beating or kicking him though. Same guy?
You can see the video on the CNN site (though it’s not a CNN cameraman but one from ITV). Look for the video titled “Torch incites heated exchanges.” The rough stuff against the cameraman starts about 0:56.
Mustn’t have been that effective at all. They had to extinguish the torch of world harmony and peace several times today… Can you see the spirit of world harmony and peace burning brightly in that torch? I can’t seem to see past the lines of police, paramilitary dudes and Chinese thug guards surrounding the peaceful, harmonious flame.
[quote=“Huang Guang Chen”]Huh? I swear I saw a bottle of Astroglide in here this afternoon.
HG[/quote]
Aye, laddie. Seems the great Forumosa unwashed are not yet ready for full disclosure on the Great Gordon Broon’s ability to view the stars from between his scurvy shanks.
Mustn’t have been that effective at all. They had to extinguish the torch of world harmony and peace several times today… Can you see the spirit of world harmony and peace burning brightly in that torch? I can’t seem to see past the lines of police, paramilitary dudes and Chinese thug guards surrounding the peaceful, harmonious flame.[/quote]
That was France.
This video is of the UK.
OK.
Hasn’t the torch of 2008 already had it’s minor scuffles and malfeasance, in other countries? Don’t want to wrock any investment deals, now do they?
Don’t you think that the British security detail was probably told to get heavy? A couple of journalists got in the way?
Boo-hoo!
That’s what Ernie Pyle would have said!
In any event, this whole torch debauchery is a vile and disgusting revision of 1936, The Third Reich, where this so-called Olympic flame was used to give justification to the glory-hungry Nazis.
Plus, ca change....
I hope they use tanks to protect the flame somewhere! I almost wish Howard was still in. He’d of shown those protestors what for . . . hopefully with a tank, or at the very least an APC!
According to CNN, the Paris torch relay has been suspended due to the amount of interruptions and protests. “French authorities were forced to cut short Monday’s Olympic torch relay through the streets of Paris as demonstrations by pro-Tibet campaigners against the Chinese government caused chaos”.
At least a small minority of this species still has a conscience.
Every protest I’ve seen has been against “China”. The CCP will definitely take that and sell it to it’s population as proof that the world is against Chinese people generally (which might not be far from the truth - ignorance and hypocrisy know no bottom that I can see). The protesters should make it clear that it is the government policies they are protesting and not the Chinese people, otherwise they are blowing this unique opporurtunity to connect with the population in a meaningful way. Worse than blowing it actually. The CCP is probably laughing it’s ass off.
If the protestors had any brains, any knowledge, any wisdom at all they would fill their banners and slogans with positive messages, “Freedom of Expression for Chinese people,” “Human rights for Chinese People,” that kind of thing. And if they are too immature to understand that they should stay home, or at least off the international stage.
I don’t know how this image protrays protestors as people with a conscious.
Attacking a 1 legged girl because she is Chinese is not only racist but sad.
I don’t know how she was involved in “oppression” and “cultural genocide”
but I’m sure whatever opinion she had of Tibet is now much less than what she had before.
It’s not the world which is against the Chinese people. It’s only the West which is against the World. Today the unfortunate turn may be China, next may be any countries in Asia, Africa or Latin America. I feel distressed when 9-11 striked NY causing thousands of innocents peoples being perished. I sympathized with any Americans that this mayhem must stop. The world must not go down together with madness of one man. As the events further unfolded, we saw how Iraq and Afghanistan were bombed incessantly without a just cause. Millions may have died by now. The world keep silence and life goes on.
Just as we thought that the start of the Olympic game, the symbol of hope and peace, will at least keep mankind in unison and harmony but it too break into millions pieces as we watched them today. The world saw and heard what the West either thru their leaders, high moral human rights activists and their agents blackmailing China and its people. We keep reminding ourself that it’s nothing more than a peaceful Olympic torch run, how significant can it be. But billions of people in Asia (especially the Chinese) and the rest of the world may have woke up just to watch how the West intimite China and its people. The Chinese have struggled so far after a long suffering under Mao, then they not only want to be part of the world community but be respected as one. Their dream may have shattered by now. Indeed they may come to point that they wonder whether what Osama said is right, “The West must be destroyed at all costs”. I dread thinking of what the world will be in future. .
It was all a smoke screen so that labour could push through a tax hike on low income earners without anyone noticing. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7333496.stm We haven’t demonstrated peacefully for years…
Linford Christie couldn’t hold it (drugs in sport is massive, cheat cheat boo!), but Amelle from the Sugababes could. Brown refused to touch it.
