Hitler's Torch of Shame comtinues its shameful world tour:

[bushmeister0]

AP reports:

"BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentine runners relayed the Olympic torch past fenced-off protesters on Friday, as hundreds of China supporters in red windbreakers tried to reverse weeks of bad publicity for the host of the Summer Games. . . A sea of about 500 China supporters in red windbreakers handed out by organizers waved banners and denounced what they called political interference in the ceremony."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080411/ap_on_sp_ol/olympic_torch

When you've got $1.68 trillion in foreign curency reserves, you can afford to hire as many pro-China supporters and PR flacks as you need to re-brand your crappy human rights image. And, of course, paramilitary "men in blue," who, according to an AP story, were accused of "aggressive behavior, including agents yelling orders and snatching Tibetan flags from runners" in London. . . Sebastian Coe, chairman of the London 2012 Olympics, also had a run-in with the paramilitary troops" said "They tried to push me out of the way three times. They are horrible. They did not speak English. They were thugs."

Hitler would have been gratified.

The Cincinati Enquirer reported recently:

"The torch relay that culminates in the ceremonial lighting of the flame at Olympic stadium was ordered by Adolf Hitler, who tried to turn the 1936 Berlin Games into a celebration of the Third Reich. And it was Hitler's Nazi propaganda machine that popularized the five interlocking rings as the symbol of the Games. Today, both are universally recognized icons of the Olympics. But historians say neither had much, if anything, to do with the Games born centuries ago in Ancient Olympia."

http://www.infowars.com/print/misc/rings_torch.htm

The Chinese are in good company, it looks like.

[texastoast]

1. China - GOOD Cuba - BAD

Why is that?

:eyes:

[bushmeister0]

2. You can't pay the bills for Iraq with sugar cane.

[provis99]

3. so the Chinese are Hitler?

I have an idea, lets just get rid of the Olympics for all time. Its a Nazi idea anyways, isn't it? Glorification of the body, and all that?

[bushmeister0]

4. No one said the Olympics are Hitler.

Or the Chinese either, for that matter. But they sure do deal with some of their internal security problems in a similar fashion. If you're really into the Olympics, you ought to be cringing at the way the Chinese government is co-opting them to put lip stick on a pig the way they are. Their brutal supression of the Tibetians really kind of paints the Olympics with a tatina of blood, does it not?

[EFerrari]

5. The relay was a propaganda project Nazi Germany initiated. n/t