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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: ReardenSteel on April 07, 2008, 10:43:51 AM
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Associated Press
Updated: April 7, 2008, 10:14 AM EST 63 comments add this RSS blog email print PARIS (AP) - Security officials snuffed out the Olympic torch and carried it through Paris in the safety of a bus at least five times Monday as chaotic protests against China's human rights record turned the relay into a chaotic series of stops and starts.
Despite massive security, at least two activists got within almost an arm's length of the flame before they were grabbed by police. A protester threw water at the torch but failed to extinguish it and was taken away. Officers tackled numerous protesters and carried some away.
http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/7969820/Torch-put-out-5-times-amid-Olympic-protests
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Then technically, that's not the Olympic Flame, is it?
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Then technically, that's not the Olympic Flame, is it?
Right. H5, lol.
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Then technically, that's not the Olympic Flame, is it?
Right. H5, lol.
Makes me think of an episode of King of the Hill I saw a couple weeks ago.
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Then technically, that's not the Olympic Flame, is it?
Right. H5, lol.
Makes me think of an episode of King of the Hill I saw a couple weeks ago.
Missed that one. (??) Good show though.
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Carrying the flaming torch like it's the Holy Grail, and having to put it out anyway to sneak it through parts of the route (no doubt at increased expense), in order to avoid the protesters?
I was as thrilled as anyone when I saw the torch going by within a few hundred feet many years ago. I hold it all in very high esteem, yet it isn't what makes the Games great any more than the flag makes the U.S. great.
On the other hand, I have grave problems with China nowadays, not with their athletes.
Has the importance of symbolic gestures addled everyone's heads to the point where it's believed the games can't go on without the torch, or the protesters think they've accomplished something significant with a bucket of water?