Wheelchair bound torch bearer attacked

This is getting ridiculous. I understand people unhappy with China's actions in Tibet and I join them in that. But is it right to attack a wheelchair bound torchbearer as a form of protest? Is it right to attack torch bearers at all? Even able bodied ones.

Isn't the Olympics supposed to be about nations coming together, putting aside their differences, to compete in sport?

I say, if you want to protest, hold up signs, chant, whatever. But do not attack the torchbearers, especially the disabled. This action has turned that torch bearer into a martyr to the Chinese people. It makes the West look like a bunch of thugs and simply serves to rally the Chinese people around their government.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080411/tpl-uk-china-olympics-rage-43a8d4f.html

 

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How fucking dumb are some people.

Yes, unless it's China, of course.

 

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i am only going to say this once
LAY OFF THE CRIPPLES

 

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Don't be so prejudiced against the crips, they should be treated with equality.

 

If you are going to attack torchbearers - I mean, having made that decision - then it does make sense to attack the wheelchair ones, as they're less likely to fight back effectively. They'd probably just wave their arms about a bit.

But I say: please don't attack the torch-bearers, disabled or no.

Go and protest in Tiananmen Square instead. Yeah.

 

How pathetic a thug must one be to attack a disabled torch bearer and still fail to get the torch!

 

They should make this an olympic event.

 

I wonder if Jin would have clutched so tightly if it was known the torch was dreamed up by Nazi propagandists?

 

Indeed... and who euthanized cripples, no less!

~String

 

Or Russia or the US both of which have been boycotted.

 

So they are attacking and assaulting people in protest of China attacking and assaulting Tibet?
Isn't that kinda like PETA throwing a BBQ in protest of people eating meat?

 

They weren't beating the guy or shooting him like the Chinese, they just wanted the torch to make a statement.

 

and the statement is ????

 

Weeeee Gotzzz ur torchhhhh!!!!!

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The Chinese, like, totally suck and stuff.

 

<sigh> nobody protests the old fashioned way anymore do they. Hmmm, maybe that's why they wanted the torch???? :shrug:

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Where were you when the Chinese went into Tibet and killed people take over their land? Oh, just sitting there on your PC enjoying your life while those people lost their country to a foriegn power .

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When did that happen? Maybe I was in grade school, or maybe I was at work. How many things on this planet am I supposed to get upset about and protest. War In Iraq? AIDS in Africa? Poverty? Whale hunting? Greenhouse gases?

 

In 1949, the Chinese Communists, led by Mao Tse-tung, overthrew the Chinese nationalist government and swept into power.

In 1950, in an expansionist campaign to achieve strategic advantage in Asia disguised as “a mission of liberation,” China sent its People’s Liberation Army on an invasionary expedition into eastern Tibet, occupying the provinces of Kham and Amdo.

On March 10th, 1959, after nine years of fruitless negotiations between the governments of China and Tibet, People’s Liberation Army forces already in Lhasa moved to kidnap and assassinate the Dalai Lama, leading the people of Lhasa to rise up in rebellion.

On March 17th, 1959, to put down the uprising, the PLA opened cannon fire on Lhasa, and the Dalai Lama was forced to flee into exile.
Over 87,000 men, women and children were killed in the three months after the March 10th uprising, and tens of thousands were imprisoned, as all of Tibet was occupied by the PLA.
Over 6,000 of Tibet’s 6,200 monasteries were looted and destroyed during China’s “cultural revolution,” and most of their irreplaceable religious texts and artworks have been lost.
There is no freedom of speech, press, or religion in Tibet. It is illegal to own a drawing or photograph of the Dalai Lama.
Millions of Chinese colonists have been actively encouraged and subsidized by the People’s Republic of China to settle in occupied Tibetan lands. The most recent estimates indicate that there are 7.5 million Chinese to 6 million Tibetans in Tibet. The colonists receive preferential treatment in education, employment, housing, health care and most other matters of civic life. Use of the Tibetan language is discouraged in Tibetan schools; all lessons are taught in Chinese.
Number of Tibetan deaths since 1949 due to political instability, imprisonment, torture, mass execution, and famine: 1.2 million
Monasteries destroyed: over 6,000
Tibetans in exile: over 130,000
Tibetan refugee settlements in India: 36
Biggest refugee settlement: over 6,000 Tibetans
Tibetan schools in India and Nepal: 87
Tibetans in Dharamsala: 5,000
Tibetans in Nepal: 20,000
Tibetans in Bhutan: 2,500
Tibetans in Switzerland: 2,000
Tibetans in Canada: 700
Tibetans in U.S.: 5–6,000
Tibetans in New York and New Jersey area: over 1,000
Tibetan Associations in U.S.: 28
Tibetan Associations in Canada: 4
Largest Tibetan Association: New York and New Jersey
Tibetans still escaping Tibet into exile (crossing over into India or Nepal): 2,500–3,000 a year

http://www.newstrolls.com/news/dev/wmeyers/facts.html


Still over half of Chinese are Buddhists!

 

Well, it seems that PC's weren't invented yet when this invasion occurred and I wasn't born yet. Soooooooooo. You really can't bitch at me about it.

And regardless of the injustices done by the Chinese government, it doesn't justify attacking some random Chinese person in a wheelchair!