Olympic torch protests - Free Tibet
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Augie March
blahem
Garcia Lorca
Anger can be power
It looked more like the hands of the dozen or so men who were surrounding the torch doing the wrestling.
To be honest, as long as its the torch thats targetted and not the person its open season for snatching if at all possible.
miss giggles
an unknown quantity...
Quick interview on 24 with the tv presenter, she said "I fully understand the feeling, I hope something good comes of it".
Watching the clip again, she looks totally unsurprised and unafraid. Good on her.
I was meant to be going out this afternoon but I can't take my eyes off this.
I have every faith in East London. Makes me feel quite proud to be British.
Watching the clip again, she looks totally unsurprised and unafraid. Good on her.
I was meant to be going out this afternoon but I can't take my eyes off this.
I have every faith in East London. Makes me feel quite proud to be British.
Nigel
For A Degenerates' Workers State
i'll be there. will try to knock up a banner too... i always regret not taking a banner with me.
any suggestions on what to write on it? may just keep it simple with 'free tibet'
Support the liquidation of Hans and Muslims From The Tibetan Region
Support The Barbarity Of Feudal Tibetan Morals.
purves grundy
ambient clown remix
you're such a fucking tool
toblerone3
Grrrrr
Tibet Torch rally just starting in the square which my flat overlooks in Kings Cross. About 400 people there.
david dissadent
New Member
We were chanting "Shame!" very loudly as Trevor McDonald started off with the torch at Trafalgar. Bet you dont here it on the news.
The Black Hand
Unclean
The scuffles on the route of the Olympic flame put the anarchists to shame - here's a large movement with no leninist leaders or anarchists!
No wonder it looked good, with ordinary people willing to have a go and put their liberty on the line. One even got his hands on the torch, fantastic live footage on bbc 24 news. That so many were willing to have a go DESPITE the amount of police makes future political possibilities look quite good. It is time that another issue became as mass as anti aparteid was and this could be it.
No wonder it looked good, with ordinary people willing to have a go and put their liberty on the line. One even got his hands on the torch, fantastic live footage on bbc 24 news. That so many were willing to have a go DESPITE the amount of police makes future political possibilities look quite good. It is time that another issue became as mass as anti aparteid was and this could be it.
Augie March
blahem
Hang on though, do we even know if the guy who tried to grab the torch was even protesting?
He could've been just some random nutter like that Irish guy who dressed up as a priest and tried to fight a marathon runner in the middle of a race.
He could've been just some random nutter like that Irish guy who dressed up as a priest and tried to fight a marathon runner in the middle of a race.
yeah, anarchists can't possibly be free Tibet protestors
The Black Hand
Unclean
Sky give over, they were no anarchists there (or very very few). Like at J18 when the Leninist leadership was absent, here the anarchists were absent. So much for the London anarchist 'leadership' hahahahhahahaaha.
cantsin
Well-Known Member
yeah , because little women are weak and should be left well alone - what patronising , irrelevant garbage , why dont you think about what actually happened to day instead of spouting this guff !
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
there seemed to be a live feed blackout after the first three protesters got themselves on the telly.
the next live bit at 12.30ish showed a chinese guy holding the torch with a manic grin on his face.
all seemed very wrong.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
I love the logic and non-violence of the fire extinguisher idea. Beautiful.
Also works as a metaphor for people who like that kind of thing (the flame of freedom in Tibet has been extinguished . . .), and the pefect money shot moment for the media.
Also works as a metaphor for people who like that kind of thing (the flame of freedom in Tibet has been extinguished . . .), and the pefect money shot moment for the media.
It's interesting to watch this develop. Murdoch's papers seem to already be labeling protesters as attacking the Olympic ideal - I wonder why
yesterdays front page on the sun had this subliminal message though!!
FREE
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cantsin
Well-Known Member
walcotts 18 yrs old + on £50 k per week - people dying in tibet simply cant mean anything to him , no frame of reference , he's the perfect embodiment of the Olympic sporting ideal , as sponsored by samsung / china / The Man
Augie March
blahem
Err... I thought it was well carried off with the exception of that one incident, which I thought was a bit bollocks.
Iguana
Well-Known Member
I was at Whitechapel Road and the atmosphere was so tense from the torch relay participants. People on the buses just looking out and looking down. I think the day has been quite a trial for them. I really think the public feeling on this was sorely under-estimated.
On tv now where they're at the O2 arena and all the fireworks are going off looks so grim. This whole thing has been a disaster for the Olympic supporters. I only hope that the images of what has happened in London today inspires similar protests along the rest of the route.
On tv now where they're at the O2 arena and all the fireworks are going off looks so grim. This whole thing has been a disaster for the Olympic supporters. I only hope that the images of what has happened in London today inspires similar protests along the rest of the route.
Me too.
The world really needs to stand together of issues like this.
They're off to Paris now arent they and the french are generally pretty good at protesting.
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