Know this important item. The people of China will do what is ever necessary to save face. Don't think for a second that demonstrations are going to have any impact on any of China's decision. Be very happy Richard Geare et al. are not protesting in China. Those security people they have on duty have a different understanding of "Right to Protest."

We should all go out and support the Beijing Olympic torch.  I think despite the propagada of the major news, people over here in San Francisco are more aware of what is really going on in China.  People who have connections or have visited China can tell you that China is a very peaceful place and is growing rapidly because of a stable and improving government.  I've visted China many times the last few years.  I have all the freedoms in China, and people are enjoying life there.  There are rich and poor people, but the poor is not so poor anymore comparied to the past (note that half of the world earns less than $2 a day), thanks to the Chinese government's policy of bringing in capital and its social policies in helping the needy.  Most people who complains about China have not even been there.  

Actually i don't know what those moroons in Paris & London was thinking then. Their so-called peaceful action { attacking a wheelchair bound girl , and deny doing that afterward , put them in equal to what they have been trumpeting Beijing is doing } have actually infuriated the general Chinese  citizen more, and this inevitable or should i say conveniently handed Beijing a tool to instill nationalism ( should i put it as ultra-nationalism ) among it's people especially the younger generation who is actually more readied & starting to accept the universal concept of democratic value..And these bunch of moroons ruined it...sigh...i afraid they will live to regret it, specially the western world...because now Beijing is happily using all these to demonise the west (please, this is supposed to be our born-right ! come on....sais nancy pelosi )....Ted Turner, if i were him (assuming he is still alive & kicking), i will probably fire those in charge of reporting the tibet issue without checking their news source and then have to reluctantly retracted with a mild, ungentlemen apology......,it is totally unfair to all the reporters that had risked their life to build up CNN to be a respected, impartial, righteous station..now in ruin (it may not be too heavy a word, if it is to say that CCN, is a joke now ! )....sigh...what a pity. So is BBC, just wondering how embarass they have put the British people into, if 4 years later, it's former colonies all coming up with stories of atrocities committed by the british army during their occupation of the former colonies, a tip, the Malaysian is demanding a apology from the Queen for the atrocities committed by the british army - they gunned down atleast 24 armless men, women & children cold-blood execution-style, don't believe, try and call the British High Commission in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, they have been handed a petition recently.

Please also report how many people supporting the relay. Don't be like CNN--Completely Non-Neutral.
Thanks!

when will the authorities start arresting all these hooligans disrupting the torch relay

The media is the root of most evil!

MSNBC, along with other western media are using double standards reporting about China, especially this Tibetan issue. You selectively exhibit pictures and messages to the American people and international community to manipulate people's opinion without blatantly telling people what to think, what to say. That is not professional, and it is unethical. Sadly, western media has always deemed themselves as objective and just. My admiration for you in the past has vanished and I feel very disappointed about your unethical practice. By the way, I am a Chinese living in the United States. I guess my comment would not pass your censorship, right?

If the United State would grow some ?????, we would have had sanctions against China along time ago and would have encouraged other countries to do the same...stop all import and export, halt business with them immediatly, stand united on this issue, let them know this would not be tolatered....the chinesse government does not care what the world thinks they are going to do things there way no matter what...we should have never allowed the Olympics in this country, I feel bad for the athletics who have worked so hard to get there only to have it ruined by the unrest there now.  We can protest all we want in the streets but this serves for nothing, our government and the United Nations is not going to do anything but turn a blind eye, just like they have in the past (Rowanda)      

I live in SF & would love to see the spectacle, if I was not @ work.  But, what I'm wondering is fairly simple: why didnt the powers that be just head in the other direction & take the shorter route overland from Greece to China?  oh yeah, where would the controversey & spectacle be in that?  I'm more interested in seeing Richard Gere than the torch or the demonstrators!  

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