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Cops and governments: Don't hand over torch security to China-supplied security.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 Too often, too many American police run roughshod over people's Constitutional rights. Why, then, did the San Francisco government permit a group of strongarm, China-trained, China-selected men (did sexism permeate the selection process?) to encircle and enforce the non-human Olympic flame's protection during the San Francisco leg of the Olympics torch relay? That just pours acid into the wounds already inflicted on civil liberties by the United States federal, state and local governments.  The Sydney Morning Herald reports the blue sports-suited "torch guards" to be "elite members of the paramilitary units that crushed dissent in Tibet, a Shanghai newspaper has disclosed." Australia's The Age newspaper asserts that "the Shanghai-based Labour Daily newspaper, quoting Zhao Si, head of the elite unit, said [the torch guards ] were picked in 2007 from the People's Armed Police, China's 660,000-strong paramilitary force that mostly deals with internal security...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on April 13, 2008 (boomark / email).