China's Torch Relay Reaches NEW LOW-Public Banned At Private Ceremony

China's doomed world torch relay reached another NEW LOW when Pakistan banned the public from the PRIVATE EVENT held behind closed doors as torch bearers took turns running around a heavily armed track. Carefully selected guests loyal to Musharraf filled the stands and pretended jubilation at the stilted event. China was quick to race to it's Torch Relay Propaganda site to DECLARE the event a roaring success. God, what's next, Torch Bearers running around the desk in a government office building guarded by tanks?

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- The Olympic torch relay began its Pakistan leg under heavy guard and literally behind closed doors on Wednesday.

President Pervez Musharraf, left, and PM Yousaf Raza Gilani hand over the Olympic torch to hockey star Samiullah.

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Security concerns sparked by the violence in earlier runs in Britain, France and the United States prompted Pakistani officials to close the relay to the public and hold it in Jinnah Stadium in Islamabad.

And instead of traversing city streets, the 65 torchbearers ran multiple times around the stadium before handing off the torch to the next runner.

The ceremony, which began around 4:30 p.m. local time (1130 GMT), was open to invited guests and the media only, and featured singers and a marching band. See the torch arrive in Pakistan. »

Dignitaries on hand included Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf and newly-elected Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani.

Heavily armed security officers dressed in camouflage could be seen in the stadium. Watch highlights of the torch ceremony. »

After the relay was finished, torch-bearers waved to the cheering crowd.

(CNN) -- The Olympic torch relay will be closed to the public when it reaches Pakistan on Wednesday because of security concerns, a Pakistani government spokesman told CNN.

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, left, with Chinese President Hu Jintao over the weekend in Boao, China.

Instead of the original plan of holding the relay in public streets in Islamabad, the relay will be held in front of invited guests in a stadium, said Lt. Col. Baseer Haider Malik.

The decision to move the relay behind closed doors came a day after Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf attacked the West over the protests that have dogged the event.

Musharraf accused Western leaders and media of politicizing the Olympics by criticizing China's human rights record and its policy in Tibet.

"First of all, we consider Tibet an inalienable part of China," he said in an interview with China Daily on Sunday. If "anyone is harboring or abetting the separatists, we condemn that."

Musharraf is in Beijing to meet with various Chinese officials.

Last week the international leg of the Olympic torch relay set off protests in London, Paris and San Francisco. The relay received warmer receptions over the weekend in Argentina and Tanzania.

China's Shamed Torch Relay Heading To Hell In India

At this point, China's Flame of Shame Torch Relay is laughable, an embarrassment for every citizen of China as protestors have successfully made a mockery of the event. London, Paris and San Francisco hands down go to the protesters, and India is already ruined before the torch arrives, a five mile route already down to a scant two miles as Tibetans and those who support them mass for an uprising. Call me crazy, but think there is a real risk if the IOC allows this charade to continue that someone is going to get seriously hurt...either those providing security are going to make a mistake, over react, or someone from the other side is going to use a bullet to take down the torch, a single shot that travels around the world in a 30 second sound bite. Look for the Flame of Shame Torch Relay to be back in the news in a big way this Thursday.

OLYMPIC RELAY PROTESTS

Tibetans in India Facing Tight Security for Torch

By Rama Lakshmi

Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, April 16, 2008; Page A11

NEW DELHI, April 15 -- Thousands of Tibetan protesters from across India have gathered here in the past week in anticipation of the arrival of the Olympic torch Thursday, as nervous government officials tightened security to ward off any threat to the relay run.

Protesters have planned hunger strikes, flag marches and dramatic reenactments of the uprising in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. Some youth groups are plotting what could become disruptive street action along the route of what one Indian television channel called the "tortured torch."

"We are being watched by the authorities constantly. Wherever we go, their shadow is following us. So we carry out much of our planning not in meetings, but by cellphone calls and text messages," said Tenzin Tsundue, a 33-year-old activist, waving his two cellphones as he sat under a colorful panoply of flags and banners.

Many members of the Tibetan Youth Congress, a group that publicly disagrees with the cautious approach of the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, have gone underground, fearing police surveillance and preventive detention.

India is home to the largest population of Tibetan exiles in the world and hosts the Tibetan government-in-exile. Indian government officials have told China that they will not try to stop Tibetan protests as long as they are peaceful.

Propaganda Fed To People of China Compliments of Peter Ueberroth, the USOC, San Francisco Mayor, and the Communist Police Department of San Francisco

A sampling of the Propaganda given to China to feed their masses, compliments of the city of San Francisco, their Communist Police Department, and the USOC.

Wednesday, 09 April 2008, San Francisco, US, Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay Shot Lists

Photo: Lin Li shows the Olympic torch

On April 9, the Olympic torch relay kicked off at McCovey Cove, San Francisco. Lin Li, the first torchbearer, holds the torch while waving to the crowds.

On April 9, the Olympic torch relay kicked off at McCovey Cove, San Francisco. Lin Li, the first torchbearer, holds the torch while waving to the crowds.

Photo: Torchbearers wave to the crowds

Updated：2008-04-10 09:14:37 Source：

On April 9, the Olympic torch relay kicked off at McCovey Cove, San Francisco. San Francisco is the sixth leg of the Beijing Olympic torch relay around the world. The photo shows two torchbearers holding the Olympic torch and running together.

Olympic torch relay underway in San Francisco

Updated：2008-04-10 08:22:31 Source：Xinhuanet

Norman Bellingham (R), Chief Operating Officer of the United States Olympic Committee, gives the torch to torchbearer Lin Li at the McCovey Cove, the start of the Olympic torch relay in San Francisco, the United States, April 9, 2008. San Francisco is the sixth stop of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games torch relay outside the Chinese mainland. (Xinhua Photo)

Torchbearer Edwin M. Lee (L), city administrator of San Francisco, and a female torchbearer run with the torch in San Francisco, the United States, April 9, 2008. San Francisco is the sixth stop of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games torch relay outside the Chinese mainland. (Xinhua Photo)

Updated：2008-04-10 10:50:34 Source：CCTV.com

09 April 2008

LENGTH: 12:02

TYPE: English/Nat

SOURCE: CCTV

DATELINE: San Francisco, US – April 9, 2008

SHOTLIST:

00:00 Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay Highlight Package

00:30 English-versioned route from Paris to San Francisco

00:37 Chinese-versioned route from Paris to San Francisco

00:41 Display of flame lantern at San Francisco airport

01:15 Security guard holding lantern and passing by cameraperson

01:24 Jiang Xiaoyu, executive vice president of BOCOG showing lantern

01:37 Various two torchbearers (one disabled) displaying torch near Golden Gate Bridge

03:21 Wide Transamerica Pyramid; pan from Pyramid to Bay Bridge

03:55 Tracking shot of flying bird near Bay Bridge

04:10 Wide Telegraph Hill

04:16 Moving buses on street

04:37 Pan from sighting-seeing people at the Fishermen’s Wharf to ships

05:02 Tracking shot of cheering crowds with Chinese flag

05:11 Cheering crowds with flag expressing their support to Beijing Olympic torch relay

05:55 A banner with“GO BEIJING CHINA！GO OLYMPICS” by a jet

06:07 Chinese lion and dragon dancing before opening ceremony

06:23 A banner with“TIBET WILL ALWAYS BE A PART OF CHINA” by a jet

06:44 Pan from crowds to LIU JI GANG taking flame lantern and security guards lighting the torch, LIU JI GANG showing the torch to the crowds and passed it to Greenham, chief operation officer of American Olympic Committee and Green passed it over to Li Lin ,former Olympic champion No.1 torch bearer

07:49 Li Lin showing the torch to the crowds

08:06 Mike Candrea and Danielle Dorfman running and holding torch together

08:16 Pan from cheering crowds to Mike and Danielle

08:25 Crowds taking photos

08:33 Jessie Lorenz (blind paralympian) running with torch with her escort Johnathan Newman

08:40 Spectators cheering

08:52 Two torchbearers running

09:02 Pan from close-up of old lady who is crying to flame

09:16 Peter Chi and Susan Roberts running together

09:47 Torch lighting, Jenny Lang and James Dolan showing torch, various Jenny

10:31 Close-up of Jenny

10:37 Various Jenny and James running together and waving to crowds

11:19 Two Chinese holding Chinese national flag

11:25 David Stern, President of NBA, and Tierra Rogers running together, close-up of David and torch

11:41 End-of-day ceremony, pan from camerapersons to torchbearers

11:47 Gavin Newsum, mayor of San Francisco, presenting a gift to Jiang Xiaoyu

11:54 Torchbearers applauding

11:57 Jiang offering torch

Editor：Zhang Xueying

IOC and USOC Bless China's Hilter Style World Torch Relay

Photograph of Participants in San Francisco Leg of Hitler Styled Torch Relay.

Here’s The Associated Press version:

The Olympic flame wasn’t part of the ancient games, and the torch relay didn’t become a fixture in the modern Olympics until the 1936 Berlin Games, when it was part of the Nazi pageantry that promoted Hitler’s beliefs of Aryan supremacy in the world of sports.

And from Reuters

The Olympics first held a torch relay in 1936, the year dictator Adolf Hitler made the Berlin games a showcase of Nazi propaganda. That torch run is captured in one of the most famous — and infamous — Olympic movies ever made, Leni Riefenstahl’s “Olympia.”

Peter Ueberroth, chairman of the United States Olympic Committee Fine With Stealing Americans Civil Liberties In Name Of Olympic Image

Seems Peter Ueberroth, chairman of the United States Olympic Committee is fine with denying us Americans our rights to civil protest when it comes to protecting the Olympic Image, was fine with the ruse perpetuated today in San Francisco to give China the ability to perpetuate a Propaganda Campaign against its people in China, and against the people of the world.

In short, Peter Ueberroth has shown himself to be a Communist Sympathizer who is fine with China's deplorable record of violating Human Rights, is fine with China's abussive suppression of the people's rights in Tibet...simply stated, Peter Ueberroth has become one of the Butt Monkeys content to suck at the teat of Communist China's largesse.

Riding with the mayor, Peter Ueberroth, chairman of the United States Olympic Committee, said he was satisfied with the relay. He said the U.S. had struck the right balance between preserving freedom of speech for protesters, providing an exhilarating experience for the torchbearers, and preventing a repeat of the chaotic demonstrations that accompanied the torch in London and Paris.

"As close as anybody can do in a free society, so far its looking very good," Ueberroth said. "Virtually anybody and everybody is being heard."