More Torch Relay Embarrassment: North Koreans' turn

SamFisher:

The torch relay makes big money. Several of my buddies have rented RV's and followed the torch in Olympics past when the US hosted Olympics, selling merchandise like t-shirts and commemorative pins all over the country. There's a whole strange counter-culture that seems to sniff out crowds like this and manages to come up with the right kind of merchandise to sell.

On a good day we are talking $5000 per person. In cash. You don't have to be a carney to see the value in that. If my friends were making that kind of money, I'm sure corporate sponsors were making more.

The same idea was also used during the 2004 elections, vending at political rallies. Anything that draws a crowd draws a demand for cheap junk and cotton candy.

 

Damn, Godwin's Law really applied to this thread fast.

 

lol, he is not illogical--- it's his way of subtle personal attack

 

Oh, absolutely. I certainly was not trying to draw a parallel to China and have no idea what Sam is doing. I just find it funny that there is so much uproar about disrupting this "special" event because it was specifically started as a Nazi propaganda device.

 

He is not subtle at all, just rude.

DD

 

Not that I agree with Sam, but this is admittedly ironic:

"The sportive, knightly battle awakens the best human characteristics. It doesn't separate, but unites the combatants in understanding and respect. It also helps to connect the countries in the spirit of peace. That's why the Olympic Flame should never die."

– Adolf Hitler, commenting on the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Summer_Olympics

Looks like the damn Nazis won the medal count!

 

It is pretty special for all the people that get to carry the torch. Except the girl in the wheel chair that had it torn from her hands

 

Can a man who set to burn himself able to fail at that attempt, if he really determined to?

Good one, except that's what media in the West sets out to portrait. You think if there were only crowds waving Olympic flag on route of Torch Run China would be unhappy and demanded diplomatic apology? LOL

 

if you are dumb enough to want to do that, I think any plan you come up with could be easily stopped.

 

C'mon Sam,

Are you trying to get us to believe you don't remember Bong Hits 4 Jesus? The single greatest moment in Olympic torch relay history.

(Full Disclosure: My sister represented the school district in this case early on, so I may be biased about it's status as the greatest Olympic torch relay moment EVAH!!1111111!!11)

 

China draws attention to itself, who hosts the game. China draw attention to the game, which is held in China. China wants to be friendly. China wants the game to succeed. So? it's not solely about China.

It's not like China send war boats along side the torch to showcase around the world. Nor did China proclaim supremacy now that they finally gets a chance to host the game.

 

Should never have wasted billions of dollars to host this stupid event. Chinese government totally miscalculated on the benefits of hosting the Olympics. But the good thing is now they can see how much resentments are there towards the Chinese and China through out the world both by private citizens and various governments, thus they should have no future delusions on issues like this.

 

What China didnt do was building churches around the world, or in China's case, confucious Monastery. But still I hate China for ill-treate NK refugees, sending them back to NK for potential imprisonment.


I drove through downtown LA a couple months back, thousands of people there protesting a single working mom, who hid herself in a church for a year to take care of her US citizen daughter, was deported back to Mexico.

 

I think that damn torch has been relayed in every Olympics as far as I can remember. Isnt that a sprit of Olympics. I have no idea how this time it's got mixed with commie China's ambition. If you are biased, you can hate a cow graze too much.

 

Every Olympics since 1936. People like Sam is just looking for an excuse to trash China.

 

The mood of mob can flicker. There is no win for China even of it didnt relay the torch because the mob would be saying it was a human triumph that commie China bowed down to the free sprit of the West, and then some.

The problem is that, let's say by a miracle, it turns to democracy tomorrow, and becomes the free-est country of the whole wide world, it will still have 1.3 billion people, it will still consume ever-increasing amount of natural resources, greedy Chinese merchants will still exploit to ship cheap unsafe products to the west.

People who never understand China can never grasp it and look funny to me.