2008年5月2日 星期五

奧運‧隨想

正看著奧運聖火在香港傳遞,奧運是世界盛事,聖火出現香港街頭,心情也有點興奮。

聖火傳遞在各國均生事端,香港的只屬小巫見大巫。藉奧運提出其他議題抗議,個人認為實非必要;不是這些議題不能、不應抗議,而是若然真心爭取,根本毋須藉奧運表達。對於這些衝擊火炬手的行為,更感不滿,不少火炬手只是社會人士,與抗議議題根本無關。

抗議雖非必要,但中央、香港政府,甚至支持奧運人士其實亦毋須對於抗議人士過於介懷,對於不同意見者待之以禁止入境、叫囂圍堵,實在難看。過於嚴密的保安亦有損聖火傳遞的意義,忽發奇想,其實不作保安,即使有人成功搶奪聖火,隨行可以以後備火炬補上,不見得有損市民對於奧運的熱情,根本毋須將一國之尊嚴,附於一件死物。真心相信,搶奪火炬者其實最怕真的成事,因為不知如何處理是也!

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Kempton 提到...

Hi Aries,

First off, I unexpectedly enjoyed watching some of the live web feed of the HK torch relay even the video quality was horribly slow at best.

In some sense, the protests in London, Paris, SF, are last resort to get people to pay attention to the problems of Chinese Human Rights, the Tibet stalemate, Chinese investment in Darfur, etc.

I have written a few blog posts musing about the Beijing Olympics. This one might get a few HKers angry "Olympic Torch - A beacon of light on Chinese Human Rights, Tibet, etc.". (smile) http://kempton.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/chinese-olympic-torch/

P.S. Sudan/Darfur used to be a Canadian problem (specifically Calgary-based Tailsman Energy). Well, sometime you get what you wished for and the result is worst. You see, Tailsman responded to public pressure and got out of Sudan. And then China went into invest in the oil projects in Sudan. And China responded to no one so far.

As I was involved with a group of Calgarians in bring the Darfur/Darfur multimedia project to Calgary and saw the 100+ powerful images. ( http://kempton.wordpress.com/2008/03/02/darfur-darfur-life-war/ ) The atrocities in Darfur have been classified as genocide by UN and that means all nations are required to act. Unfortunately, with the inaction by most nations' governments (including Canada), it makes a mockery of ourselves when we said "Never again". Are humanity simply damned to repeat our failings forever? "Never Again", Yet Again?

Here are some images set to powerful music,
http://sudanproject.ryanspencerreed.com/multimedia/quicktime/

P.P.S. I thought of this movie clip when I read "根本毋須將一國之尊嚴,附於一件死物",
http://youtube.com/watch?v=44R5BapEdYY

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Well,kempton, such protests may be an effective way to get people's attention, but probably not last resort.

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