Selfish Protesters Use Violence To Get Their Way

The protester species of human is certainly a special breed of their own. No matter what country they happen to come from, they are strikingly similar in that they all use violence to protest the endless myriad of things that they disagree with and anything goes as long as they feel it's germane to their needs and wants, regardless of the needs and wants of others.

First in London, now in Paris and soon to be elsewhere this phenomenon is displaying itself as the protesters have chosen to use the Olympics and their disruption to say to the world look at me look at me !!! Taking the Olympics and using violence to disrupt the torch relay as they have is nearly as low brow and despicable as the actual things that they are protesting, thus taking the focus off the subject of their ire and putting it on themselves as everyone looks and sees what a**holes these people are and can be.

So here they have robbed a generation of Parisians and others the magnificence of the torch relay and replaced it with pictures of themselves snuffing out the torch and committing violent acts upon the people chosen to run with the torch itself, a lifelong and definitely a once in lifetime dream for many who were chosen to do so.

While I am against the treatment of Tibetans and Chinese by their government as much as anyone there are better ways to get one's point across than the methods these selfish do gooders have once chosen to do so. These people now begin to become caricatures themselves and are starting to resemble the idiots portrayed in the once goofy but now quite prescient movie from a while back in '94 called PCU, and many of us non-protesters are simply sick of these people telling the world what's right and wrong while committing violence and whatever they can get away with in the name of free speech to get their often times whacked points across, sick of them.

Olympic Torch Extinguished Amid Pro-Tibet Protests In Paris

|Sky News|World News: "The Olympic torch relay in Paris has been cut short after chaotic protests by anti-China demonstrators.

The flame had already been extinguished four times by security forces after repeated clashes with pro-Tibet and human rights campaigners.

The city's mayor also cancelled a ceremony to mark the torch's passing as officials draped a Tibetan flag over the city hall's facade.

Mayor Bertrand Delanoe announced the cancellation after Green party members of the city council flew the flag.

Thousands of police sent on to the streets to protect the torch relay as it made its way around the city were unable to prevent demonstrators hijacking the event"

The torch had to be repeatedly extinguished amid safety fears caused by the demonstrations and several activists were arrested.

Two campaigners brandishing a Tibetan flag were arrested for trying to bar the torch's path.

And two members of media rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) - which disrupted the lighting of the flame in Athens - were held for trying to vault over the security cordon protecting the torch.

A member of the French Greens party had earlier been restrained by police when trying to grab the torch from the first of 80 torch bearers, former world 400m hurdles champion Stephane Diagana.

Bus upon which torch had to be carried

Several hundred demonstrators waving banners gathered on the Trocadero esplanade, just the other side of the river Seine from the Eiffel Tower, where the relay started.

Three RSF members climbed up the steel tower and unfurled a 13ft flag showing the five Olympic rings turned into handcuffs.

They then handcuffed themselves to the structure more than 200ft in the air.

Sky News Europe correspondent Greg Milam said extinguishing the flame was significant because the torch was supposed to be kept alight on its journey around the world. more

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