Why did the authorities think it OK to have Chinese thugs escorting the Olympic torch?

because the people they are elected to serve don't matter to them!

Welcome to Gordon Brown's Britain, where all are welcome...doesn't matter if they're fascist puppets, they're more than welcome to come into Downing St and push people around. Compare how our PM dealt with the situation as compared to the Australian PM. Says it all really. Why do we have such a spineless unelected bastard in charge of the UK?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3671343.ece

This is the IOC thinking! Amazing isn't it.

Never mind mass murder, lets have a race!!

You can forget 2012. Our role in Iraq/Afghanistan will put paid to that!

I'm not sure I understand what's "sinister" or "thuggish", from what I've seen from the videos. It looks like a group of guys forming in inner ring around the torch, with metro police on the outer cordon, I don't see any other immediate action avaliable other than simply shoving the protestors away.

The only action by those security was a guy wrestled to the ground who tried to extinguish the flame with a fire extinguisher, but imo, that guy was asking for it. And the British police arrested him.

These Chinese guys are only trying hard to protect the flame, that was obviously their task are they areobeying the law of the host country, other than that they do not have have executive powers.
British Lord Coe describe them as thugs, I found this to be a very ignorant and biased comment
Obviously he have not seen security at a concert.

This time, it's Chinese own Take-Away

becuase they're stupid

people who remark against China or write questions like this for sure have by no skill been to the rustic or experienced chinese language hospitality. And the risk-free practices workers are doing their jobs. And the object you linked to is junk, and Lord Coe sounds like a buffoon. Whats with that remark, "they did no longer talk English ... i think of they have been thugs." Wow....it fairly is correct, everybody interior the international ought to chat English?....what a barbaric element to declare. It additionally sickens me that folk could have the nerve to protest those athletes on an analogous time as they're on the torch relay. i wish those Olympics are great, and that i recognize that China will do their very appropriate. EDIT: it fairly is all fantastic and correctly, i'm merely bored with the negativity related to China recently, exceedingly concerning the Olympics. Having lived in China myself, i will see previous the neg. components that the media is focussing on, as I comprehend the subculture, language, etc. and you, having lived in China, ought to recognize how human beings would be dealt with with out asking that component of the question. human beings going to the Olympics will take delivery of admire and kindness; unlike how the chinese language are being dealt with all over the realm interior the media and someplace else. no longer attempting to p.c.. a combat with you mate. Cheers, ~ M.

People are individuals. Just because their government did something it isn't their fault.

**** grovling.me thinks

Did you know that the olympic torch idea was reinvented by the Nazis for the 1936 olympics? I'm guessing that's the answer Lol.

Think of the torch as a symbol of the billions of dollars/pounds/euros of import agreements that have to be protected. That's what the whole issue comes down to - money. Next time you're in your local hypermarket (Wal Mart, K Mart, Woolworths or any of the big stores like Tesco in the UK), check what percentage of their consumer goods is made in China.

The horrible old men in charge of China oppress and exploit their own citizens so that you and I can buy cheap stuff in the shops. Sad but true.

They acted in the same capacity as stewards at a football ground or at a pop concert.
Their job was to protect the flame.
Who started the violence?