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Olympic Torch Protest
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 1:33 pm
by GeorgiaCoyote
You know I do understand why there's such an uproar against China now but it's really nothing new. It seems silly to me to start protesting now when the time to do it was during the selection process a while back. It's a moot point now and it certainly want make China change their ways. My biggest gripe about these folks is that they seem to have all this time and money on their hands that they don't work and just go around protesting. I do believe in protesting against China's abysmal human rights record but why don't these folks and the actors like Richard Gere put some of that money toward homeless shelters or something.
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 2:26 pm
by Ibun
It's an excuse for hippies and celebrities to protest something.
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 5:36 pm
by anthony
I herd Hitler started the Olympic Torch thing some time during WW2.
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:26 pm
by Richard K Niner
I herd Hitler started the Olympic Torch thing some time during WW2.
1936, yeah. That was a few years before the war.
*pushes Godwin out of the way*
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:47 pm
by Hanii Puppy
in my opinion, they could have avoided at least 1/4 - 1/3 of the protest if they didn't decide to have tibet as the final location for the torch.
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 7:23 am
by rabid_fox
I hate the Olympic Torch too, but I don't like that they're dragging politics into an otherwise perfectly fine protest. Bloody students.
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:37 pm
by Ibun
They should use the British type of torch. Alot harder to steal batteries than it is to put out a flame.
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:46 pm
by Baconsticks
How dare that interrupt an international event? Are you kidding me? What would you do in this instance? It is the perfect time for them to interrupt an international event because of all the attention being brought to their country.
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:19 pm
by Tom Flapwell
Why does China want to keep Tibet, anyway? What resource does it offer in abundance?
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:41 pm
by nickspoon
Why does China want to keep Tibet, anyway? What resource does it offer in abundance?
Monks.
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:57 pm
by gforce422
Why does China want to keep Tibet, anyway? What resource does it offer in abundance?
Monks.
Either that or it wants the praying dog that was in the news a few weeks ago...
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:57 pm
by Ibun
Why does China want to keep Tibet, anyway? What resource does it offer in abundance?
Monks.
If we don't stop them, they'll come after Tony Shalhoub next!
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:45 pm
by Doc Sigma
Why does China want to keep Tibet, anyway? What resource does it offer in abundance?
Monks.
If we don't stop them, they'll come after Tony Shalhoub next!
*gasp* Noooo!!!
Maybe we can trick them by giving them Ambrose instead. Not like he'd be missed, guy never leaves his house.
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 7:27 pm
by Tom Flapwell
If we don't stop them, they'll come after Tony Shalhoub next!
Incidentally, a "Monk" actor just died.
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:56 pm
by Ibun
If we don't stop them, they'll come after Tony Shalhoub next!
Incidentally, a "Monk" actor just died.
I did not know this. I have never actually watched the show.