Have you seen the absolut vodka ad in mexico, it looks like we the united states my be having some issues like china, in tibet they are using the same worlds like mexico "reconquista" the word means (reconquest) we need to look at how china controls tibet, we may need to learn from them, on how to control the anti-American sentiment coming from the millions of illegal mexican migrants and there descendants, in our own country, because i for one would never let my country go back to mexico, so i support the chinese, and the way they get things done, good luck China, and can't wait to see the olympics in your country, see not all americans are blind to the real world, we need to open are eyes as a people.

Ron Phillips, Hemet, USA, Ca.

It makes no sense to bar coverage in China, the more they show the more united in patriotism the Chinese will feel as they group together against the obvious hate thrown at them.

jeff, Manchester,

Get your facts rights before you protest-leave the chinese government to deal with its own domestic problems. There is no point in 'pressurizing' them so to speak by boycotting the Olympics because they wont and your acts are merely rendered as childish in their eyes. Look at it this way, when most of the countries and the UN objected to the Iraq war citing lack of evidence, did the US bother to hear the cries pertaining to human rights and peaceful dialogues? NOPE. So whats the big deal about Tibet?

As most of you have rightly pointed out, the population in china is close to 1.3 billion. Not the dismal millions but billions. A lot of us are really lucky because we have education and are privileged in many ways. So just let China be. Its not easy to impose democracy to a country of that size. The present political structure works in China so not every country must be run in a democratic order. In fact, the people in China are not suffering as what a lot of u say.

liz, Singapore,

Funny when those ppl keep talking bout human rights... and funny when we all know how CNN stops American from knowing the dark side of their country... i even studied that during uni... back in Sydney... dude, i wonder hv u guys ever read chinese newspapers... and i wonder why u guys believe a news block.. when now... even heckers from china can heck ur national defenive systems... u think they dun aware the outside world? God.... stone age is over.. wake up..

HH, HK,

To : Alien Hunter, Lubbock, TEXAS

1/ (DO NOT BUY ANYTHING MADE IN CHINA!!! ), pls keep your words, without your generous patronize, we CHINESE still can survive and moving forward. OK

2/ Your Americans totally have no rights to talk about HUMAN RIGHTS, your country invades and occupied Iraq just for OIL, OIL, OIL and nothing but OIL and also killing thousands of innocents, what is human rights?

Kam, Hong Kong, HKSAR

I didn't realise Chinese officials were so funny!

mark, reading, uk

Olympic Games in China? Why not North Korea, Burma, or even Cuba for heavens sake! How about Somalia!

I say well done London and Paris!

Fred, San Diego, USA

Western media always think what their people do is the best for rest of the world. While evaluating any country or anyone, it will be better if both the positive and negative facts are considered. There is lot of economic improvements in China under the same political structure. Millions are brought out of poverty by the same political structure. Why is not anyone talking about that? Is it some kind of fashion to talk only about some human right issue and isolated incidences. Chinese people can always have their opinion , if not as a demonstration. Most of the Chinese are happy with the present political structure which has done good for them. So why should others intervene?? Clean your own houses first.

Shankar, Dalian, China

What right do they have to condemn whatever happens to the flame? They don't even respect human rights! Just remember they have baby girls dying out of starvation. How absolutely gross and disgusting. The Olympics should be boycotted and all its administration sacked big time, how on earth can they allow this year's event if their job is to ensure the message portrayed in the Olympics is P E A C E. Get this useless Olympics administration out, and start paying a honest salary to who actually will do the job right. At the end, who's gonna laugh on the worlds face is China, because they filled their pockets with money, it's what it is all about at the end of the day. They wanted the Olympics thinking solely of their economy. Other countries do the same, it's true, but are also able to deliver a strong message/reason of the Olympics.

Carlos Rafael Ventura, London, UK

Jing,
Isn't that a little selfish of you? People are forced to have abortions, are paid a tiny amount to manufacture all the things we buy in this country, and are not free to live the way they please in China. People are not free in China. There is no free press in China. So you are just interested to have our press go into China where their Communist government says it's okay to go, to show you the Olympic games? Why doesn't the government there allow journalists show how things really are there everywhere other than just in the Olympic parks? Millions of people are suffering in China, and all you care about is watching a sporting event.
My friends, family and I won't be watching the Olympics.

Dee, Rockbridge, USA

This will be this generation's Berlin Games (1936), with the host nation manipulating sports to flex its collective political might on the world stage. And sadly, the appeasers - as in 1936 - will skip along to the song and dance.

Richard Coreno, Berea, OH

Would you want your precious Olympic Games even when they were in Nazi Germany? Would you still be saying lets not mix politics and Olympics while Hitler was killing people? Its the same thing with China.

David, New York City, USA

Shame to the disruptive protestors. Motivited by ignornace, the protestors are humiliating the Olympic, the 1.3 billion Chinese in China, and millions of Chinese oversea. How much do they know about Tibet history, and the recent development there? None

Tom

tom, san francisco, ca

1.5 MILLION DISPLACED PEOPLE – MOSTLY ELDERLY & DISABLED
$1.5 TRILLION SURPLUS
GROWTH FACTOR $1.0 BILLION PER DAY
GREED CONTROLS THE COUNTRY
China is not only VIOLATING TIBET but their own people as well. China MADE this political. Anyoen who thinks that the Olympic games are NOT political do not understand what life is about.

China,
FREE TIBET!!!
HOUSE THE HOMELESS YOU HAVE CREATED!!!

Three cheers for all the protestors!!! Add to the protest and DO NOT BUY ANYTHING MADE IN CHINA!!!
PROTESTORS UNITE until China recognizes HUMAN RIGHTS!!! We can make a difference!

Alien Hunter, Lubbock, TEXAS

i thank its great the olympics are in china, tibet is not are concern, what do you think we the USA would do if all the mexican immigrants, in california started rioting, and trying to get independence, it would be just like china, let china be

ron phillips, hemet, usa, ca.

Shame on the protesters! The people of England, and around the world have the right to see the olympic torch procession. THIS IS SPORTS, NOT POLITICS!!!

John, San Fransisco,

Hope that they are able to extinguish it.

Philip, Copenhagen, Denmark

In response to MW - brucec is closer to the truth than you are. In both cases, as long as your individual ideas don't clash with the ideals of the leaders of each movement (green or communism), it seems like you have some freedoms. See what happens when you voice opposition to either one, though - you get propaganda and abuse in response - sometimes with deadly force.

As little as you may like cheney / bush, you'll be free and unfettered tomorrow. The greens should learn to be so open-minded and tolerant as most of the non-greens are.

DW, PGH, PA/USA

When the chinese government allows their messages to get thru while removing the messages of others from the news, it not only smacks of dishonesty, non-transparency and cover-up, it is a distortion of the truth and facts, and that alone shows that they have no credibility at all. If as they say their actions are justified, why not report everything without censorship?

Denny Ablack, Port of Spain, Trinidad

In response to bruce, Green and Communist philosophy could not be further apart. Greens hold that each individual has worth.Communism comes from the top down, kind of like what we have in the US under Bush/Cheney. And China is hardly Communist at all, anymore. Communist theory does not approve of pimping out children to work in Nike sweatshops.
And to watch Chinese secret police beating protesters in England is unbelievable. I will not watch the Olympics, nor will I buy ANY products from the sponsors.

Hopefully, every athlete that competes will have a Tibetan flag on their person.

Michael Williams, Los Angeles, CA

We SHOULD boycott the games -- until China gets out of Tibet

Hero, Preston,

Wow! Good luck to the protestors! I wish I could be there to protest too! I'm not at all surprised that the media has been downplaying this as much as possible. The world needs to be continuously reminded of China's shameful record of oppressive communism and disregard for basic human rights!

Sarah, Washington DC, USA

Why be surprised when communists act like communists? When the greens secure total control of Europe they'll be doing it to those who refuse to be controlled as well. The greens and the reds belong to the same Marxist beast. The Chinese Communists came to power using exactly the same rhoetoric the greens use.

brucec, minneapols, usa / mn

i just want to watch the olympics .. lets not use politics and olympics together.. i support human rights in china but com'on now .. i wanna watch the olympics!!!!

JING, Boston MA, USA

If China didn't have such a HORRIBLE human RIGHTS record, and would let Tibet be free and not torture and kill peaceful people, perhaps there wouldn't be all these demonstrations!
Do you really think that this is happening only because of a few people are upset with the Tibet situation? GET REAL! It is only going to get worse. The Chinese bit off way more than they can chew, and should have never applied to host the Olympics in the first place. The Chinese government is getting all the trouble they deserve. Hah!
Cathy
USA

Cathy, Chicago, Illinois, USA

China's dictators can run from their appalling human rights record and history of cultural genocide in Tibet and elsewhere, but they can't hide. Despite the disgusting sight of Chinese secret police goons being allowed into British streets, free people were able to express their anger and frustration at China's bullying and intransigence. Good on them, and good on their colleagues in Paris, and everywhere else the flame will go.

Jacques Francis, Westcott,

Will, London - not sure what you're saying. Either you're trying to be funny and failing or.....? What have we British done THIS time?

Mike Orme, Windsor, Berks

Shame on Chinese media; shame on the Communist Party of China; shame on the Chinese Police. You ruin the substance of your nation with your vile repression and your pathetic clubbing and torturing of opponents to your one thought way of thinking. Your people are great but the oligarchical government of the 'People's' Republic of China is just another bunch of gangsters, no better than the petty warlords and emperors that ruled for thousands of years.

I hope the torch is put out again and again by free people everywhere. The PRC's masters deserve no less.

John, Geneva, Switzerland

The torch procession was going to be nothing more than Chinese propaganda and I for one was happy to see this event disrupted and the Tibet issue put onto the front pages. I don't condone violence and vast majority of the people demonstrating appeared to be doing so peacefully. I hope the Chinese government feels suitable ashamed, but I doubt it...

Duncan Hindle, Leeds, England

China as a country is nice, it's people are pleasant, BUT it is the few who are in power that are in the same league as Mugabe, Sadam Hussein & other dictators. They try to stifle the opposition.

If China thought it could wallpaper it's true colours with the Olympics it has made a grave mistake, as the worldwide deomonstrations where ever the olympic torch is going is just putting China's Real Face in the worlds headlines.

Whatever said, even by some of the British athletes, in todays economic world, you cannot ignore a country's behaviour, just because it is holding a sporting event. It is all intertwined.

al, London, UK

And Tiananmen square was...anything but vile?

Nick, Camden, London

Shame on British media, Shame on messy London central yesterday, you ruin your own country's image to billion Chinese. Really shame on you, British!

Will, london, uk

David (Murphy) - out of interest, which news programme did you see that on? It was cut out of the coverage I saw yesterday.

Beijinger, Beijing,

Get your facts right next time!..Chinese viewers were told the full facts of the demonstations in London on the news last night,and in Paris today!...I sat and watched it with my Chinese wife!......A disgusted Brit in China!

David Murphy, Chengdu,Sichuan Province, China

...and China knows what vile behaviour is....

kirk, Rotherham, UK

In this age of the power of the consumer making a difference, then there is one thing we can ALL do to make our voices heard on Tibet, and that is do not watch the games even for a second.
If done globally this could be the biggest protest ever mounted !

Its that easy

Stefan Basiuk, London,