At this point I am easily amused.

I have to laugh and point the finger at these morons who are taking an active stand against a butane powered fire/lighter that represents a giant game.

Most of the protestors are the same people who will protest the cause du jour-global warming, elephants inside soap bubbles and senators dumping diesel in the Nantucket Sound.

I look at people who take their complaints to the streets dedicated to the 'cause' with amusement tinged with real distain.

But look at response to the TR protests.

The mouthpiece for the BOOC comes out and says that they 'condemn' the actions of the protestors....not the protest-the actual jerkwad trying to put out the torch.

And the BOOC condemnation does what?

Nothing.

Now what does a nitwit with a fire extinguisher do for the cause?

Well, he gets his name in the paper, arse on T.V. and gives the Chinese government all the more reason not to let international pressure deter them from carrying on as usual.

Case in point?

Cubans in Florida. They really got Fidel to change his tune, eh?

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Instead of getting the TR out of town, these protestors welcome it into the city-for some fun and games.

Let's tax the police and city services! Let's tie up traffic with protests! Let's be disruptive to the whole process.

The Chinese government will twist the coverage to show what a bunch of apes we are in the West. How uneducated we are, evil and uncivilized.

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As far as boycotting a country for it's child labor practices, human and animal rights violations and whatever else the 'cause' is - you may as well check off the planet.

Everything that we touch or do has some kind of negative effect on the population.


Protestors drive to the protest, the use cardboard and wood to craft signs, they wear their hiking shoes made in Taiwan, the Levis by women in Africa,
Cheap t-shirts sewn in the Carribean-with a nice silk screened logo that let's us know that it's not cool to eat meat, they listen to iPods to the alternative music, with electricity that's made from coal that pollutes the sky.

The protestors will sit back and congratulate themselves at getting the torch run to stop, while forgetting that if the run had gone on and the protests had been a little more civilized, they would have had more chances, in more countries to carry their message to the people that are blissfully unaware of the problems that the Chinese government causes.

Really brilliant, morons.
Really brilliant!