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On Wednesday, the Torch for the Blood Olympics will come to San Francisco. And we'll be there to meet it. Won't you join us? If you can't make it to SF by April 9 to join the reception, you can join those boycotting the corporate sponsors of the 2008 Organ Harvesters' Olympic Games.

On April 9 in San Francisco, The Torch Relay for the Blood Olympics will be met by protests and protesters calling for:

Freedom for Tibet

Religious freedom for all Chinese - for the Falun Gong and all other faiths.

Ending China's material support and political backing for the Darfur genocide.

Ending China's human rights crimes against her own people.

Oh, and according to KQED, the Great Torch March Forward will also be met by protesters calling for:

Ending China's gruesome trade in organs from executed prisoners.

Heh.

The USOC wing of the deeply corrupt, proto-fascist International Olympic Committee displayed their customary cultural sensitivity, strategic insight, and political acumen in selecting San Francisco as the Torch's only stop in North America.

The same cultural sensitivity, strategic insight, and political acumen the WTO displayed in choosing Seattle for their 1999 meeting.

Even one of the dimmest bulbs at the Chronicle (SF's Hearst-owned excuse for a newspaper) was able to shed light on the Olympian stupidity of this decision:

God only knows why San Francisco was picked as the only North American city for an Olympic torch run. Don't they read the news? Even longtime Olympics veteran Scott Givens, who headed up San Francisco's 2016 bid to host the Games, says he knew there would be protests in this progressive city.

"That's what makes us all love San Francisco," he said. "It is the democracy of democracies. That's what makes San Francisco great."

Still, there was actually a period when City Hall officials were delighted at the prospect of hosting the torch.

They're over that now.

Initial planning called for the route to include jogs across the Golden Gate Bridge and through Chinatown (which must have been part of the reason the city was picked in the first place), but it has been cut down to bare bones. No bridge, no Chinatown.

"I think it would have been great to go through Chinatown," Chu said. "But there is the interest of public safety."

The official line is that the narrow streets would be too congested. But the city officials also are worried about protesters all along the route - they've put the Police Department on overtime to manage crowds.

The stupid, it burns - far brighter than the Torch.

Our millionaire Mayor took time off from looting SF County's cash-starved public transport to pay for his bloated staff of aides (yep the same pool of aides in which he was boning a staff member - who just happened to be married to the long-time friend Gavin had also placed on the SF payroll) for a private meeting with China's ambassador March 29. Joining in Gavin's kowtowing to Beijing are the usual local pols whose loyalty to the PRC's leaders vastly exceeds their loyalty to international human rights. Most prominent among them is Carmen Chu - the SF Supervisor quoted above - who never met a PRC crime against humanity she couldn't excuse or deny.

Newsom's bungling of the Great Torch March Forward burned him with Pelosi, one of his political mommas - who chose the day he met with the Ambassador from the Official Organ Harvesters of the 2008 Olympics to slam China and the IOC.

"Sadly, the Chinese government has not lived up to its commitments to improve the human rights situation in China and Tibet," Pelosi's statement said.

"I believe the International Olympic Committee made a mistake in awarding the 2008 Summer Games to China, and I sponsored a Congressional resolution expressing that view at the time."

Predictably, Mayor Hair Gel's other political momma - the execrable Senator Dianne Feinstein - opposed the protests and supported the creepy pol in his initial attempt to burn our Constitution for the Chinese Communist Party kleptocrats by restricting SF residents to "Free Speech Zones": the same tool DiFi used to suppress the First Amendment during the 1984 DNC Convention in SF. That was when DiFi was still Mayor - before she became US Senator with the power to help herself and her billionaire hubby Blum grow richer off defense contracts and the power to give away from 20 to 40 Billion worth of our Federal water to a few hundred millionaire landowners as their prize for poisoning more than 400,000 acres of San Joaquin Valley farmland with toxic runoff.

In an era when "flip-flop" is practically a synonym for "Senator", SF's own Senator Feinstein is a beacon of consistency in her personal and professional life: unswerving obedience and service to wealthy kleptocrats who gleefully profit from raining death and poison wherever it will make them richer.

DiFi, her hubby, and their uber-wealthy pals - bringing back the Golden State. Under the robber barons.

Caught between Pelosi and DiFi - as well as between SF residents and Beijing - yesterday our feckless Mayor Hair Gel belatedly stepped forward to say he was thinking about complaining to China - an opportunity he apparently missed when China's ambassador came by for their little private chat.

The mayor also said he will consider making a public statement about China and Tibet during next week's ceremonies when the Olympic torch is brought to the city.

"If I have to decide if I want to position myself to create an international incident, that's something I'll have to consider, I guess," Newsom said.

The mayor also pointed out that per Olympic protocol, he would never get to physically hold or accept the torch anyway.

Still, he said he will think about raising some of the concerns that protesters have expressed daily outside his City Hall office during next week's ceremonies.

Meanwhile, as the Boy Mayor positions himself to follow DiFi - by rimming deadly plutocrats - two days ago China opened fire on hundreds of monks and other Tibetans, killing eight. The Tibetans were marching to demand the freedom of two monks. China arrested the two monks for the "crime" of having pictures of their religious leader - the Dalai Lama.

And the citizens of Gay Paris have had the good fortune and better sense to elect a Mayor who - sacrebleu- will actually stand up to China:

A banner supporting human rights will be draped over Paris City Hall when the Olympic torch relay passes through the French capital on Monday.

Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said City Hall will display the banner because "Paris defends human rights all over the world."

And Students For A Free Tibet greeted the Great Torch March Forward For The Blood Olympics with a daring bannerdrop - off Westminster Bridge:

Four members of SFT UK were detained this morning after two activists abseiled off Westminster Bridge and unfurled a 74 square meter protest banner reading, "One World, One Dream: Free Tibet 2008." This brave action took place on the eve of the passing of the Olympic Torch through London on Sunday, April 6th.

On April 9th, where will you be? What will you do? And between now and the Beijing Olympics - who will you follow? Will you follow DiFi and support McDonalds and the other sponsors of the Organ Harvesters' Games? Or will you follow the path to freedom?