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...i know how the whole anti-China/pro-Tibet thing has been going on for awhile, but watching the protests in England and then France on the news yesterday kinda does make one wonder - is preventing the torch from being extinguished the main issue here?

Coz i think, traditions aside, the real issue is how ridiculous it looks with the torchbearer smiling and running amidst a crowd of 20 Chinese and local escorts around her. I mean, fod God's sake, its supposed to be a symbol of sportsmanship, unity, freedom and wadeva not. if anything, its a hunorous metaphor of the way the Olympics will be held this year. A farce of peaceful games and smiling faces among the crowd of security and police forces surrounding it, preventing any attempts to disrupt.

We thought Munich in '86 was bad. I don't know. You wanna talk about the true spirit of the Olympics? If you ask me, Beijing '08 really does not cut it. At all.

-lu