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Olympic Torch Extinguished During Protests In France, Olympic Games Canceled Forever John Ward Anderson and Molly Moore, Washington Post Foreign Service
PARIS, April 7 -- Protesters halted the Olympic torch relay in Paris Monday, forcing officials to extinguish the flame and end the Olympic tradition permanently, despite a massive deployment of 3,000 police across the heart of the city.

The heavy security presence transformed the torch relay from a joyous celebration of the Olympics into a tense confrontation between police and demonstrators protesting China's crackdown on Tibet last month and its human rights record.

By late afternoon Paris time, with the relay hours behind schedule and facing continuous stops by protesters, officials gave up on finding a way to restart the procession. They said the torch would be carried by bus for the rest of the route, from the National Assembly building to the Stade de France sports complex, a distance of about 3.5 miles.

The decision was made by Olympic organizers and the Chinese Embassy, police in Paris said.

During the first part of the procession, athletes were surrounded by so much security they could barely run with the torch, and police scuffled with pro-Tibet demonstrators along much of the parade route.

Athletes carrying the torch were surrounded by cordons of Chinese security teams as well as French police on in-line skates. Police on horseback, bicycles and motorcycles filled the streets of the relay route, which was so crowded with police that it often was hard for spectators to see the torch passing. Black-suited divers patrolled the Seine, helicopters monitored the route overhead and emergency squads scrambled to strip a huge protest banner from the face of the Eiffel Tower.

"It doesn't even resemble a sport event," said Patrice LeClerc, 36, whose 8-year-old son complained that police vans blocked his view of the torch bearer even as he sat atop his father's shoulders.
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NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>> Anonymous
lol Eurofags screwing up Olympics
>> Anonymous
>Olympic Games Canceled Forever
Faggot, it isn't
>> Anonymous
I'm really glad to see this. Fuck China.
>> Anonymous
Olympics: Serious Business.

Aren't Coubertin and Jacques Rogge french?
>> Anonymous
Wow, what a totally believable and not-made-up story!
>> Anonymous
The olympic torch/flame existed before Beijing and will exist after Beijing. Faggots need to find a better way to demand freedom for a slave economy-driven dive of a territory than attempting to destroy something that has no correlation with the Chinese situation. .
>> Anonymous
>>56687

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/04/07/oly.torchrelay/index.html
>> Anonymous
the Olympic Games haven't been 'cancelled forever'
>> Anonymous
I'd protest China because they manufacture everything and sell it back to us at fuckprice.
>> Anonymous
Who even cares about this? No one watches the Olympics anymore. Like people care about track and field or some other boring shit.
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The Olympics have been moved to Tibet.
>> Anonymous
>Olympic Games Canceled Forever

wishful thinking, instead we will have people running around in circles shitting up TV for a few weeks
>> Anonymous
The only solution to this is to nuke Tibet. Then these protesters will have nothing to protest for.
>> Anonymous
It's official. Everyone has forgotten that the Olympics are supposed to be about international unity.
>> Anonymous
The whole point of the Olympics to ignore each country's personal political/foreign policy views and compete through a medium that no country can claim disparity with another.

Even if the Olympic committee had voted fucking IRAN for the 08 Olympics I don't think protesting would be appropriate. It's entirely missing the point. Plus, look who is protesting right now. The British? America? the two responsible for the catastrophic farce of a war on Islam? Fuck that.
>> Anonymous
Protests don't work. Just pull a 1936 Olympic Games, where Jesse Owens went into goddamn Nazi Germany facing Aryan Perfection and won four gold medals, kicking Hitler's ass.
>> Anonymous
>>56719
kill yourself. if you think NBC programming is better than a meeting of the greatest athletes in the world in every sport, you deserve to die for sure.
>> Anonymous
>>56726
It's also a celebration of diversity and peace. Which China tends to ignore when it comes to Tibet.

There is also the factor that China lied when it claimed that having the Olympics will improve their human rights.
>> CapitalistBastard !!f/pELCnjRD0
>>56726

>farce of a war on Islam

You are a retard.
>> Anonymous
bbbbbaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!
>> Anonymous
oh no I will not be able to watch black people do the same thing they do every four years what will I do
>> Anonymous
>Athletes carrying the torch were surrounded by cordons of Chinese security teams as well as French police on in-line skates.

lol.. Chinks dont understand that people hate to see chinese army squad escorting their sport-legends..
>> Anonymous
>>56825
The relay of the Olympic torch through the streets of Paris by runners was cancelled on Monday and the flame was put on a bus at the request of Chinese authorities after huge pro-Tibetan protests, French television reported.
France's BFM television said the flame was carried onto the bus in front of the National Parliament and would be driven down to the final stage of the relay on the southern edge of Paris, rather than be taken there by runners.
>> Anonymous
Why is everyone going insane over this. It's a sporting event, a one the embraces different cultures and connects them with one simple activity: games. It's the event athletes train their lives for just to have a little 15 minutes of fame. And now people are trying to take away athletes spend years preping for, and countries spend billions to fund on. Why? Because it's held in a certain country that you don't agree with in terms of political philosophies. Cry me a river.
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meanvile in a land of the full freedom and a holy sunshine..
>> Anonymous
>>56868its not about the game idiot. its about not to wake chinks up before they are starting to go insane becuz of their superchink dreams.
>> Anonymous
>>56751

All this shit about human rights, ironically the vast majority of people in Tibet will have more rights and freedom under chinese rule, bitches dont realise how oppresive the Tibetan Theocracy was
>> Anonymous
>>57088
You see, bleeding hearts and freedom lovers would rather see people wallow in their own ignorance and idiocy than see them brought up by the boot straps by another country. Kantian bullshit.
>> Anonymous
Gee I wonder where 7/8th of all the protestors will be after the olympics.
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Fuck China, getting asshole buisnessmen in our country rich taking our jobs and flooding our country with shitty merchandise.

Do your part and read the tags of what you're buying.
>> Anonymous
>>57088

HAHA: Evil Mr. Dalai Lama brutally oppressing his people.

I bet you're chinese. Quit eating the chinese propaganda.
>> Anonymous
>>57378
>HAHA: Evil Mr. China brutally oppressing his people.

I bet you're tibetan. Quit eating the tibetan propaganda.

fixed
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Several visa agents across Hong Kong, a popular entry point into mainland China, said they received direct word from the China visa office here last week that it was barring the popular multiple-entry visas for foreigners effective immediately and until after the Olympics in Beijing this August. Single- and double-entry visas are being issued instead, they said.

An agent at Forever Bright Trading, a visa office here, confirmed a posting on its Web site that said the ban would last until Oct. 17 and said she wasn't sure whether the ban would be extended further. An agent at Compass Travel said the ban applied to both F-visas, for business, and L-visas, for tourism, and to all foreigners, regardless of nationality. Before, business travelers could obtain visas valid for multiple entries over a three-year period.
>> Anonymous
>>57380

aehmm you have fixed nothing and its not bad to be tibetan and to use tibetan propaganda. finaly it are chinks who invaded in Tibet not tibetans. you failed idiot..
>> Anonymous
>>57380

> I bet you're tibetan. Quit eating the tibetan propaganda.

HAHA: he thinks we all need to fear the EVIL TIBETANS. That radical-buddhism sure is dangerous.
>> Anonymous
>>57397

lol. seconed
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>How will the Chinese react if the Olympics really do become noted more for demonstrations and boycotts by Tibetan-inspired foreigners than for the achievements of China's athletes and organizers? At whom will popular anger then be directed?

i am shoked! Angry Chinese! angry chinese ritos in USA!

aeehhmm. wait.. are they going to make new LA-chaos days?
>> Anonymous
>>57383
>>57397
>>57400
Tibet has been a part of china since Yuan dynasty (1271-1368). Stop talking nonsense.
>> Anonymous
>>57768

> Tibet has been a part of china since Yuan dynasty (1271-1368). Stop talking nonsense.

Oh, I guess that excuses all the human rights violations then. Fucking communist apologist.
>> Anonymous
>>57817
Tibet was guilty of human rights violations China today could only dream of before they went in and actually got an infrastructure developed.
>> Anonymous
>>56741

>sport

No hockey in the summer olympics.
>> Anonymous
>>57817
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950-1951_invasion_of_Tibet
nigga please. I say let the Olympics go on to show how fail their athletes are compared to our home-growned negroes.
>> Anonymous
Tibetans using the Olympics as a foothold is plain cowardice.

However, since I'm Chinese all you faggots would instantly say I'm fed with Commie propaganda. Look, I too have some beef against China no country is perfect. Now, I am not completely unsympathetic to the Tibetans after all they did get steamrolled. But I don't approve of these right-wing Tibetans. They are far too extreme. and at the end would hurt their own people. This morons think America would nuke China.

Also, for the ignorant, Tibetans are actually Chinese from thousand of years ago. China is actually Multi-ethnic. For example, I'm actually from many different tribes.
>> Anonymous
>>57944
or you can say I'm Tibetan. Whatever same people.
>> Anonymous
Until the tibetan people get to vote on whether or not they want to stay under chinese rule, I'll be sympathetic to protestors.
>> Anonymous
>>57955

And yet Northern Ireland continues to be under British rule, and no one gives two shits outside of the island.
>> Anonymous
>>57960
Untrue
>> Anonymous
Does this mean we have to give back American lands to the natives?
>> Anonymous
>>57960
mostly because there are laws in place allowing for secession from the UK for ulster if the majority of voters so wish
>> Anonymous
>>57955

Until Texas and California get to vote on whether they want to stay in the U.S., they don't have to answer to the U.S.

Except, unlike Texas and California, Tibet has been part of China for over 800 years. The feudal dictatorship the line of Dalai Lama's was worse than anything America dealt with during its civil rights struggles in the 1800's. Over 90% of the Tibetan population was in poverty, people were born into slavery and died into slavery.

The Chinese set their province straight, building hospitals, schools, roads, and creating infrastructure in general while pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into the province each year. If it weren't for the central government, the Tibetans would still be eating their own shit and slaving away in a mass systemic form of oppression unfit for criminals even.
>> Anonymous
>>57989

>died into slavery

Shit! Even dying made you a slave?
>> Anonymous
>>57989
How exactly was the dalai lama keeping the country in the shitter if the chinese were in control, then?

I don't deny that tibet was in bad shape, but they should be given the choice of which government they want.
>> Anonymous
I love how stupid fucking hippies and any faggot with a knee-jerk reaction to the words freedom and independence goes around supporting the cruelest regimes.

Free Kosovo! Ignore that fact that the 90% Albanian majority has harassed, murdered and ethnically cleansed the Serb minority while bombing their churches and ruining their livelyhood, ignore the fact that Albania is alraedy its own country and that race/ethnicity is not a qualifier for independence or sovereignty- if you believe otherwise, be ready to give California and Texas to the spics in a couple of decades, America.

Free Tibet! Ignore the fact that it was run by a corrupt wealthy elite who devised an enormous system of feudalist slavery, the likes of which even the most barbaric countries had moved beyond centuries ago. Ignore the fact that Tibet has been a part of China for centuries longer than countries like the U.S. and Australia have existed, countries who were FOUNDED on the subjugation, theft and genocide of their native inhabitants. Ignore the fact that the Dalai Lama has accepted billions of dollars over the years to wage guerilla warfare, attacking Chinese hospitals, schools and orphanages in Tibet, which Tibetan children attend.

And then when shit happens, and Tibetan terrorists start riots, attack police officers, blow up businesses, government buildings, hospitals, you expect the Chinese government to what....sit down and have a tea party with them?
Go ahead France. bawww about human rights when you brutally cracked down on your own protests a few years ago. You too Britain. Go ahead U.S., while you illegally occupy a country, and illegally detain your OWN citizens in places like Guantanamo.

Yeah, the west has a perfect moral leg to stand on.
>> Anonymous
>>58001
gtfo moralfag

slavery kicks ass, i'll take ten
>> Anonymous
>>57997

We're talking about pre 1949. The Dalai Lama is a title, it's a succession much like the pope. The current Dalai Lama was a teenager when he fled Tibet during the Chinese crackdown, but the system put in place by his predecessors and the oligarchy of corrupt monks has been in place for hundreds of years.

Tibet has been a province of China spanning the duration of hundreds of years, over several dynasties. It has always been given a great deal of autonomy due to the unique religious nature of the region. The government just decided in 1949 that the region was a complete shithole. When they came in, they finally abolished the mass systemic slavery that the Buddhist regime had put in place.


People tend to forget that all organized (organized being the operative word) religions are the same; they care first and foremost about power and control. Islam is a peaceful religion by default. As is Christianity. As is Buddhism. But power mongers exist in every denomination, and the Dalai Lama and his ilk are no different.
>> Anonymous
>>58005

If slavery kicks so much ass, why all the BAWWWWIIING about China's supposed harsh, authoritarian crackdown? Double standard more faggot.
>> Anonymous
>>58001

/thread
>> Anonymous
>>58007
>If slavery kicks so much ass, why all the BAWWWWIIING about China's supposed harsh, authoritarian crackdown? Double standard more faggot.

Because it's interfering with slavery in the region, gtfo.
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>> Anonymous
Do you guys really believe that Tibet is war worth fighting? As the Anon said above me, 90% of the people were in poverty and lived their entire lives in the slavery trade, and they probably still would've if Tibet was taken over. Also, Tibet never had freedom of religion and probably never would seeing how much of their political and social decision were based around Buddhism. If it was still around today, it's be like Saudi Arabia, without all the western workers. Besides, Tibet chooses their political leaders by randomly selecting a child and say he's the reincarnation of Tulkus. Yes, because obviously in the country I want to live in, I want to choose my political leaders not on experience or how well they can handle the role, but instead I want their personality to match with the guy before us. Makes sense.

And no, I'm not Chinese. Or Oriental. Or born to a country neighburing China. Stop asking.
>> Anonymous
>>58019
if tibet wants the fucktarded government you described, they should have it.
>> Anonymous
Nice to see that old /n/ is back
>> Anonymous
>>58019

Sorry bro, but having another democracy in asia would be a GOOD thing. The Dalai Lama has already said that he would step down as head of the government if Tibet were set free.
>> Anonymous
>>58034

>Sorry bro
Go fuck yourself right there

>Having a democracy in asia.....Dalai Lama would step down
You don't get it do you? The Dalai Lama is not the single force of entity in the governing organization. He's just a headpiece for the oligarchy of political leaders who ran the slave monasteries before the 1940's and wish to revert to it again. To think that the Dalai Lama is in anyway ASSOCIATED with the word democracy when he is the posterboy for a cabal that has implemented mass slavery for 700 years is laughable, and something only an idiot would believe.

China gave Tibet autonomy from the 1290's until the 1940's. It doesn't take 700 years to realize Tibet did a shitty job of running itself, but China gave it that long anyway despite having every right to rule it unconditionally from the start. I think a near-millenia is enough grace period for the failed Dalai regime.
>> Anonymous
>>58025
So Tibet is allowed a fucktarded government defined through serfdom but Christ forbid if any Muslim-dominated country have anything less than apple-pie red-white-and-blue democracy?
>> Anonymous
>>58034
Every single politician on the face of the planet throughout history has vowed to get X change done and has wound up completely ignoring it when in a position to effect that change. Talk is cheap, even if it's the Dali Lama's
>> Anonymous
>>58042

HAHA: communist apologist. Democracy in Tibet would be an unequivocal good. But I guess you think authoritarian communism is better for the Tibetan people.
>> Anonymous
>>58072

LOL at you thinking the Dalai Lama's regime which has condoned slavery of the lowest kind for the past 700 years has anything to do with democracy.

LOL at you not understanding what communism means, and thinking it applies to current day China in a political or economic sense at all.


Go back to smoking a blunt and circle-jerking with your emo stoner friends about how society is keeping you white middle-class kids down.
>> Anonymous
>>58072
They've had several hundred years to prove themselves capable of governing themselves properly and somehow managed to fuck all of it up. Besides, if we're suddenly going to decide to bitch about people being taken over by a higher power, you and all the other tree-huggers with zero sense of history should be moving back to Europe so the natives can have their true autonomy back too.
>> Anonymous
Prior to the Chinese takeover in 1950, Tibet was a nation run by religious fanatics who did nothing for their people. The Tibetian people were basically serfs with a 'subsistence' life serving a ruling dictatorial Buddhist government.

Tibertians were ruled by religious doctrine and the same LIBERAL ANARCHISTS who have taken up the Tibetian cause would have a 'fit' if the US was ruled as Tibet was.
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>>58072

>HAHA: communist apologist

No. Just....no. I can't even begin to put into words how much you fail.
>> Anonymous
Two words: Fuck Tibet.
>> Anonymous
ATTENTION:
Get the fuck out of /sp/

... that is all
>> Anonymous
>>58132

nice sage faggot
>> Anonymous
So let's summarize the communist apologist's arguement:

1. Tibet used to be ruled by brutal buddhist (lol) dictators.
2. That was bad.
3. Tibet is currently ruled by human rights abusing brutal communist dictators.
4. This is a good thing.

You guys rock at logic. Democracy for the oppressed Tibetan people.
>> Anonymous
Nobody watches the Olympics. Who the fuck cares.
>> Anonymous
>>58318
Pre-1950 - Tibet was ruled by a dictatorial religious fanatical government who did nothing for its people. The average Tibetian was basically a serf to the Buddhist religious elite.

After 1950 - Tibet is ruled by a dictatorial communist (in name only) government that has built roads, raised the standard of living of the average Tibetian, provided health and other essential governmental services.

That is the difference.
>> Anonymous
ITT we don't understand that democracy and progress don't mix
>> Anonymous
>>58336

you know a shit about Tibet and its history, weaboo chinks..
>> Anonymous
>>58336
Great! Now they can get the fuck out.
>> Anonymous
HAHA I love seeing all these brainwashed faggots rage and protest but can't do shit at all. Guess what happens after the olympic(which btw you like it or not will be carried out)? Dalai was pretty right that they have no chance after 2008, but then they never had any chance at all. Come and fight a nuclear war for your pussy slaver, why dont you?
>> Anonymous
>>58374

actualy you are wrong.

everyoneknows that China is going to make a war after 2008. question is where and vs whom?
every year without a war with China wich tibetans get for us and chinese is a great year full of peace and chinese butt pain.

i welcome our tibatan friends i and i think they deserve more rights and own 4 states real autonomic states of "people's" republic of China.
>> Anonymous
>>58382

'actualy', you can't even spell much less make a legitimate point, dumbfuck. China isn't starting a war with anyone mainly because they don't have any reason to. It would jeopardize not only their own growing economy but the global economy at large which is beneficial to no one. The Tibetans are just butthurt fascists who've fucked up constantly over the past 600 years and are bawwwiiinnng because they can't get their mass slavery reinstated.

Go fuck off faggot.
>> Anonymous
>>58387

>baaawwww! chinese butt pain!!!
>> Anonymous
>>58382
what's the point of trolling when you can't even speak english?
>> Anonymous
bawwww harder protest fag, I'm sure it will help NOT cancel the Olympics.
>> Anonymous
>>58396

lol. none wants kill olympics idiot. just to show that chinks are loser and cant take the world. now, yet, whole fucking chinese "harmony" shit is ruined. See CNN loser..
>> Anonymous
>>58436

>I r butthurt tibetanfag kant speek englisz Lolol
>> Anonymous
>>58448

>baaawwww!! my chinese butt hurts!!
>> Anonymous
not even chinese faggot, I just don't ignore history. But I'm not surprised this is coming from a retard who was brainwashed by a cult that chooses its leadership by picking a random baby and claiming he's the 16th reincarnation of Tulkus
>> Anonymous
I haven't read this thread but I'm gonna say this.

NOBODY GIVES A SHIT ABOUT CHINA OR TIBET

THEY BOTH SUCK ASS
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>>58475

why are you talking about shiites, moron?
>> Anonymous
>>58590

troll harder faggot. buddhism != islam
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>>58475

all time better then to give your land into hands of some incest made underage faggot or into hands of some syphilitic chinese(Mao), jewish(Trotzki) or georgian(Stalin) commi pig.
>> Anonymous
>>58594

tell that>>58475fuckwit
>> Anonymous
I wish there was a way to take all this ignorance and make something productive out of it.
Read a book trolls.

Let's talk sports.
>> Anonymous
>>58602

He never said that you illiterate dumbshit. Point out where he implies that, you stupid fuck?
>> Anonymous
How is this fucking post still even bumping with 90 replies
>> Anonymous
>>58475
>>But I'm not surprised this is coming from a retard who was brainwashed by a cult that chooses its leadership by picking a random baby and claiming he's the 16th reincarnation of Tulkus

Exactly. All these stoner libs are backing a leader - Dalai Lama - who was chosen by some religious mumbo jumbo. He wasnt elected by the people of Tibet.
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>>58870

lol..voted by people..
>> Anonymous
>>58870

HAHA: Dalai Lama said he would step down as head of government if Tibet were freed. Democracy in asia is a good thing, unless you're a fan of authoritarian communism.
>> Anonymous
HAHA: You're fucking stupid, his regime witch has run Tibet as a feudal slave system for over 600 WON'T step down, and they'll continue denying their slaves any sort of human rights at all
>> Anonymous
>>59234

> his regime witch

HAHA: he thinks buddhists condone slavery. Meanwhile, all those poor chinese folk slaving away in a factory to make your Nikes laugh ironically.