Olympic torch through London et al

Was watching footage of this on the news tonight. It seems like every few paces a Free Tibet protestor broke through the crowd and made a run in front of the procession with a placard or a water pistol, only to be mown down Bodyguard style by a bunch of overzealous uniformed goons like he or she was about to detonate a suicide bomb. I was really shocked at the voracity of the police response. None of the protestors resisted arrest when caught, but at one point a bloke had about 5 policemen on top of him kneeing him in the back. In another scene a man rushed in front of the procession and ran along ahead of it with a banner and a policeman peddled up behind him as fast as his fat donut shitting arse could drive his thighs and literally jumped off the saddle onto his back to bring him down.

WTF?? It was like watching a protest being put down in one of the countries the protest was about.

yeah i saw and heard it pass by neer to my workplace, cops were everywhere, helicopters were following it for hours and hours, then suddenly it all got louder and people were running towards it, police ran towards it, then it diverted away from the road i was on at the last minute, and i saw absolutely nothing at all. :emo:

police always knee you in the back, its called pinning them to the ground, what do you expect the cops to do? you dont threaten to disrupt an important event and expect to get treated nicely do you?

Meh. Silly Eenglish Pig-Dogs. :snooty:

Eh? What fake guns? A luminous pump action water pistol you mean? Yeah, I bet the police get really nervy around schools in summer.

Perhaps if the police jumped en masse on fewer people when they're not struggling or resisting, before kneeing them in their backs they'd get fewer people dying in police custody.

i thought you said a water pistol, but then i deleted that.

do you know about Geneva Conventions?

Deleted twice. :emo:

Tesco :fist:

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i thought you said a water pistol, but then i deleted that.

do you know about Geneva Conventions?

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I was always under the impression that there only was the one.

Are there more.

is that a question? :unsure:

The Geneva Conventions consist of four treaties...blah blah blah

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions

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Yes I am aware of 'Geneva Conventions'. Next.

Its a good read innit? :smilie4:

those Swiss businessmans were bloody nice people.

I'm sorry I'm going to have to stop talking to you or I might catch stupid.

Almost forgot the et al part.

So I'm watching the telly this morning and Richard dawkins is on talking about religion with a studio audience, and they eventually get onto the subject of the existence of the Devil. Someone actually says....get this....

'Well the devil must exist because how else do you explain Hitler?'

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Then tonight on that Louis Theroux programme I'm watching grown men act like they achieved some sort of epic victory of man over beast because they cornered a big goat and shot it in the head.

I'm too sensitive for this world :cry:

i cant argue with that, or that.

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Tesco :fist:

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They marked as spam.:P:lol:

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i cant argue with that, or that.

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You should write a list of stuff you can argue with, like.

It should have bullet points and stuff, 'cos those are nice.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AFMqEYd8QE[/youtube]

The whole thing was on News 24 for about 10 hours. It was a farce.

At one point the torch carrier was surrounded by a ring of Chinese assasins, a second ring of bicycle helmet wearing police in yellow vests, and two rings of police ninjas wearing black. :unsure:

I lolled at the commentator when he said that a protestor had come within inches of snatching the flame because he was disguised as a normal bloke :glag:

Anyway, what a waste of everyone's time :dabs:

Agreed. Apparently the flame has been extinguished in Paris now.

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Agreed. Apparently the flame has been extinguished in Paris now.

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Those French Farmers - probably weren't use French gas or something else.

The police did it :blink:

i watched it on teh news, it was lol - specially when that one guy came at the torch with a proper fire extinguisher :lol:

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Agreed. Apparently the flame has been extinguished in Paris now.

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Those French Farmers - probably weren't use French gas or something else.

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They know how to make a public nuisance of themselves in France don't they?

Olympic Street Wrestling.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...26x282bike.jpg

Brilliant! That was the part where PC plod launched himself off his saddle onto a man carrying a flag. Bet that was the most physical exertion he'd made since he joined the force.

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Those French Farmers - probably weren't use French gas or something else.

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They know how to make a public nuisance of themselves in France don't they?

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They have had a hell of a lot of practice. That torch never really stood a chance.

Sorry but I don't see what's so funny about attacking people carrying a symbol of the Olympic ideal. They're not attacking China, they're attacking the torch oblivious of what that torch is meant to represent. They had a chance to use what that torch represents to say something to China and stupidly they've thrown it away by behaving like thugs.

Instead they end up looking like people who don't get the ideals of the event, or who disagree with those ideals... and if I were Chinese I'd be pleased about that... because the discussion has to become about their behaviour instead about the behaviour of the state of China.

in the west we believe in freedom of speech and human rights, china had to cut the live news feeds to hide the truth from its people. nobody behaved like thugs, the protesters did everything they could to throw a spanner in the works, and they succeeded.

They should have carried it through France via the gift of a burning sheep.

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in the west we believe in freedom of speech and human rights, china had to cut the live news feeds to hide the truth from its people.

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If you're going to try and sell attacking a symbol of the Olympic ideals as a freedom of speech argument I'm really hoping you're not representing anyone in any kind of court case ever!

And in the news today is reports of attacks upon the symbol, nothing about China, other than in relation to the attacks upon a symbol that isn't even theirs and that in many ways represents everything China does wrong.

So China cut a news feed, just as Western Governments attempt to control the news... so what's new... that's Government for you.

Oooo just caught your edit... No I'm sorry they behaved like thugs, with no sense of decent behaviour towards other individuals, that's why the news outlets are discussing their behaviour instead of running articles about the behaviour of the Chinese state.

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in the west we believe in freedom of speech and human rights, china had to cut the live news feeds to hide the truth from its people.

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If you're going to try and sell attacking a symbol of the Olympic ideals as a freedom of speech argument I'm really hoping you're not representing anyone in any kind of court case ever!

And in the news today is reports of attacks upon the symbol, nothing about China, other than in relation to the attacks upon a symbol that isn't even theirs and that in many ways represents everything China does wrong.

So China cut a news feed, just as Western Governments attempt to control the news... so what's new... that's Government for you.

Oooo just caught your edit... No I'm sorry they behaved like thugs, with no sense of decent behaviour towards other individuals, that's why the news outlets are discussing their behaviour instead of running articles about the behaviour of the Chinese state.

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the behavior of china wasn't on the news because they paid western TV & sports personalities to try and (fail to) carry the torch through London and Paris.

china behaved like thugs when they took Tibet and still do.

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the behavior of china wasn't on the news because they paid western TV & sports personalities to try and (fail to) carry the torch through London and Paris.

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WOW shit that must have cost them a bob or two, paying off EVERY western journalist... I mean we do have a lot of journalists... and they paid off every one of them did they ?

No I'm not asking what your position on UFOs is!

Oooo caught your edit again... yeah it's a shame the Western news isn't reporting anything about it though... maybe they've been distracted by the thugs attacking the Olympic torch ?

TV & sports personalities were paid to run around with a torch not journalists.

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the behavior of china wasn't on the news because they paid western TV & sports personalities to try and (fail to) carry the torch through London and Paris.

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WOW shit that must have cost them a bob or two, paying off EVERY western journalist... I mean we do have a lot of journalists... and they paid off every one of them did they ?

No I'm not asking what your position on UFOs is!

Oooo caught your edit again... yeah it's a shame the Western news isn't reporting anything about it though... maybe they've been distracted by the thugs attacking the Olympic torch ?

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western news isn't reporting what?

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what im saying is TV & sports personalities were paid to run around with a torch.

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So what you're arguing that them running around with a torch that represents the Olympic ideals is offensive or something ? And so they deserved to be attacked ?

Nah!! I don't think that'll hold up either... I've seen some of the crap programs they create and they're a damned sight more offensive than having them carrying a torch through the streets.

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western news isn't reporting what?

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Anything much about Tibet, they're focusing on the Western protests and the behaviour of the protesters... shame really they could have been reporting about how the masses object to the way China treats the people of Tibet with some indepth stuff about the what China does.

what are you so angry about?

the London & Paris protests succeeded? who cares?

it would have been nice if those two days werent ruined by protests i agree,

but china assumed the police could control them, the police failed today in paris 3 times the torch was extinguished, yesterday in london the police also failed to keep the protesters under control.

i dunno what news you've been watching?

Sorry angry :blink: Where was that then ?

I just said I couldn't see that the thuggery did the actual cause any good.

sorry my mistake.

apparently Hitler invented the idea of the Olympic flame so it must be evil (since he was created by the devil). These noble protesters are indeed doing gods work, or are they Buddhists ?