Protesting Protesters - the Olympic Torch

Political rant follows.

While I fully support free speech and the right to protest, I find the recent actions of the anti-China protesters against the Olympic Torch relay quite offensive. The Olympics have always been tied into politics, it is the nature of the event, but they try to rise above it and promote a harmony among the nations at least on the field of sports.

These protesters, mostly Free Tibet from what I have seen, now disrupt the Olympic Torch relay in increasingly violent ways to show their opposition to a thuggish Chinese state (way to be corrupted people) by striking directly at athletes who simply wish to show their love of sports and the Olympic ideal by carrying the torch. The torch bearers are not the Chinese state, ruining their one chance to be part of something larger and eternal by violent and disruptive action does not win you friends or make you look like heroes, it just makes you seem as thuggish and opportunistic as the Chinese government is in promoting the games as part of its "national greatness".

And to those who say the West should boycott the Olympics, I say you should go to hell. We should go to Bejing, just as we went to Berlin in 1936, and win all the medals. That is the way to show that free society is better.

And here I thought breakdancing was dead . . .

but no! It has gone global! There is even a yearly international championship held in Germany. Amazing.