This really pisses me off. The Chinese are basically coming down here and telling us how it's gonna be in our own country, and Rudd is happily letting them. Why are commies bossing us around all of a sudden? It's not like we lost the cold war. Why we dont we let them set fire to the Aussie flag with the olympic torch while their at i? I'm sure Rudd's 2020 cheersquad will appreciate the symbolism.
If Rudd had said, 'hey they are gonna run with the Torch, it's their torch' that would be bad enough, but at least it would be honest. I'm sure that is what Rudd told his Chinese backers right from the get go. But when it comes to addressing the people who put him in office Rudd has changed his story many times. First flame attendants were not traveling with the torch, then they were travelling on a bus, then they were leaving the bus if the flame went out, and now they are just walking alongside the torch just as they always intended. 3 are walking, not the original 6. What's the bet the other 3 come out tomorrow for some reason? Probably to light the cigarettes of the other 3, or some bollocks.
Rudd is barefaced bullshitting the Australian nation, as well as undermining out national sovereignty. Say what you like but this would never have happenned under Howard. Sure, he was close to the yanks and Bush and Cheney came with their security detail, but that was the Prez and the Vice Prez. They will always have their own trusted staff that go with them. The same courtest was extended to the Chinese leaders at APEC as it should be.
But for commie thugs to be aided and abetted into intimidating the Australian public by the man that was elected to represent them. That is weakness, duplicity and treasonous disloyalty of the most vile sort. Rudd makes me sick.
