As Torch Begins Journey… Protests Will Certainly Follow…
A Chinese family sits at home watching the broadcast of the Olympic torch relay beginning. The usual pomp and circumstance fills their television screens. Dancers. Parades. Cheering crowds. Then. Blank. A Prerecorded segment. And Blank. The torch is being lit.
For a fleeting moment on international television a protester interrupted the ceremony today, but the billion plus people in China would never see what happened, because State run television would not allow it. Surprise. Surprise.
As reported by CNN, “three human rights protesters marred the Olympic torch lighting ceremony Monday, charging onto the field of an ancient Greek stadium to unfurl a banner calling for a boycott to the Beijing Summer Games… Broadcast live, the stunt left Greek commentators speechless, but in China, state TV cut away to a pre-recorded scene, according to the Associated Press, preventing millions of Chinese viewers from watching the tumultuous start to their nation’s Games.”
This is only the beginning I am sure in many months of protests to come as the flame makes it way to Beijing for the official start of the Summer Olympic games in August, and I sure that whent he flame makes it back to China for it’s 111 Chinese cities trek which will last 3 months right before the Games begin.
One can certainly hope that the protests will be allowed to occur as peacefully as possible. Based on China’s history thus far, I am certain that won’t be the case.
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