| That's exactly the point Peter. Many people in China has either unintentionally failed or deliberately refused to see the point that this demonstration/ disruption would occur regardless of whether the torch-bearer is handicap (or Chinese for that matter) or not. Far from being handicap, Jin Jing actually has a lot of support and power behind her. Do not forget that she has two other fully body-abled persons escorting her! It is shameful for China or Chinese netizens to capitalize on this event because her disability has not made her any more vulnerable than other torch-bearer. Are Chinese netizens trying to say that if Yao Ming was the one carrying the torch then the situation would be reversed and they would criticize Yao Ming for "bullying" the smaller size Tibetan then? Any Chinese would wants to use Jin Jing as an example of "defenseless" weakling should first consider the 6 year old Panchen Lama who was adducted from his home 12 years ago while he sleeps. Who is the real defenseless person now? A paralympic champion with two escorts or a 6 year old boy adducted from home by the Peoples "liberation" Army? This little boy has never reappeared in public since he was adducted in 1996. Some people claimed to have seen him in various labour camps in Beijing but no one knows for sure....Beijing denies all allegations. |
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