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The Chinese Government pulled one over on the city of San Francisco and the thousands of protesters planning to ruin the Olympic torch run today. I had the pleasure frustration of watching the entire “event” unfold on live TV for the last four hours, and it was the most anti-climactic thing I’ve ever seen.

After protests in London and Paris this week, there were huge fears of demonstrators ruining the torch run in S.F. today. The ordeal that unfolded on the Golden Gate Bridge increased fears that things would run afoul today (and thats the whole reason I tuned in, drama!)

What was supposed to end in an entertaining bloody protest turned out to be a complete dud. The Chinese government pulled the okie doke this morning and held the torch run in a completely different location than originally planned, which left the majority of the protesters confused and miles away from the action. There were thousands of people standing in the middle of downtown ready to raise hell, and they got to see absolutely nothing.

Please enjoy my award winning artistic representation of how things unfolded. (it is actually correct).

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To clarify, it was reported on NBC11 that the Chinese gov’t worked closely with the U.S. Department of Justice and planned this from top to bottom, to prevent further embarrassment.

Here in the Bay Area, there’s been talk of how to deal with potential Olympic protesters due to our large Asian population. The torch is coming to town on Wednesday, and there would undoubtedly be tons of angry “Free Tibet” hippies getting rowdy.

The protesters were one step ahead of the authorities, instead of waiting til Wednesday, they climbed up the golden gate bridge today (as in right now), and unveiled two huge banners. One reads “FREE TIBET ‘08″ and the other reads “ONE WORLD, ONE DREAM”.

Traffic on the bridge is absolutely insane, and it’s been shut down to pedesterians at the moment. One of the protesters actually called the local news station as she hangs from the top of the bridge. She gave the predictable statements about how she wants to raise awareness, yada yada yada.

Once they come down, they’ll face a 10,000 fine and community service… big deal. Here’s a crappy pic I took of my TV.