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Postby Gilligan » Mon Apr 21, 2008 11:53 am

Japanese Temple Sprayed With Graffiti After Withdrawal From Olympic Torch Relay


Pull out of the torch ceremony because you're worried about the safety of the temple. Then the temple gets vandalized because it pulled out of the ceremony. Oh, the irony.
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Postby Mulboyne » Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:39 pm

Those torch relay security plans in full:

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Postby Mulboyne » Sat Apr 26, 2008 1:03 pm

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Postby Mulboyne » Sat Apr 26, 2008 4:12 pm

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Postby Mulboyne » Sat Apr 26, 2008 7:00 pm

Intriguing formation to protect the torch.

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Postby Tsuru » Sat Apr 26, 2008 7:01 pm

Remind me... has this ever happened before? The torch relay needing so much security it defies the whole point?
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Postby Charles » Sat Apr 26, 2008 8:30 pm

Tsuru wrote:Remind me... has this ever happened before? The torch relay needing so much security it defies the whole point?

I think this has always happened, although not at this level. I remember my boss was a torch runner during the 1982 LA Olympics, he said someone tried to grab his torch.. twice.
But obviously that was not anywhere this level of protest. That was more prankster-ish than protest.
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Postby Behan » Sun Apr 27, 2008 12:37 pm

Mulboyne wrote:Intriguing formation to protect the torch.

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The torch is being guarded by a huge vagina!
His [Brendan Behan's] last words were to several nuns standing over his bed, "God bless you, may your sons all be bishops."
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Postby Catoneinutica » Sun Apr 27, 2008 2:16 pm

Behan wrote:The torch is being guarded by a huge vagina!


Heh - the spirit of the Sublime Dali is strong in this one!
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Postby Kuang_Grade » Sun Apr 27, 2008 2:49 pm

A part of me is wondering why some piece of vital paperwork wasn't 'lost' at some J ministry just in time to prevent the touch run, esp when it was clear that this would be a problematic event after all the trouble in Europe (nor will this sort of effort ever cut any ice with the Chinese)....It was just three years ago when those anti-Japanese riots in China about J school books took place and China's famed security apparatus was 'surprisingly' lethargic to respond to them.
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Postby Behan » Sun Apr 27, 2008 3:03 pm

One thing I didn't realize about the torch relay was how much the Olympic host country was involved. In China, sure, it's China's show, but sending para-military or police personnel overseas to protect the torches seems strange.
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Postby Takechanpoo » Sun Apr 27, 2008 7:31 pm

Uyoku vs Chinese

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Postby Behan » Sun Apr 27, 2008 9:47 pm

The marvelous thing about the ignore button is you don't have to read what trolls post, unless people quote them.
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