Imagine you gave a party and your guests arrived, but at the last minute you decided to have your cake somewhere else—without your guests.
Does that sound bizarre?
But isn’t that exactly what’s happening on San Francisco streets as city and Olympic officials try so hard to avoid protesters or the general public?
This is Chinese freedom in action right here folks. It’s a comical, embarrassing avoidance of the real issues that turns the whole torch relay into an absurd farce.
Olympics officials could have had the torch run while on a treadmill in a closed room, taken video of it for display on a truck with a big screen TV driven through the announced parade route.
Virtual torch.
That might have been better than what is happening now.
But it does show how far people will go to bend to the Chinese and pretend nothing is wrong and everything is normal.