Olympic Torch Relay

[krasnoludek]

San Francisco officials completely changed the route of the torch relay today to circumvent the protests that were obviously going to happen. It was transported to another part of the city, run for a short distance, before being shuttled to the airport and sent off. It was a completely cowardly act just so that China could point to it and say

Comments

[justanothergeek]

I have to agree with the other reply-ers, and disagree with you. We got the best of both worlds -- the protests and the Tibet issue made national and international news, but there was no violence and the spirit of unity was somewhat preserved. And we didn't give the rest of the US yet another reason to think we're all nutcases out here.