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Four more months of daily protests and mayhem lie ahead before the Olympic torch reaches Beijing.

The torch run has already become a farce, and a logistical nightmare for local police and security, and it is expected to be this way in nearly every country that the Olympic torch will pass through.

What sort of Olympic message of sportsmanship, unity and togetherness is sent to the world when the torch’s progress through London is surrounded by lines of jogging police and marred by violent clashes between police and protesters?

What exactly is the Olympic spirit supposed to mean when world leader after world leader refuses to hold China to account for its actions in Tibet, and thug rule over so many of its own people?

If your nation’s leader seems to have no problem with the way China deals with its dissidents, you can presume your leader thinks China does a good job of keeping dissent in check. Chinese cities are now the world’s number one proving ground for new surveillance, monitoring and repression technologies, most of which comes from the United States and Israel. It’s a Big Brother goldrush in China right now.

China can inflict all the anti-free speech restrictions on Olympic athletes and media that it wants, but it’s not going to make much difference once the Games begin. It is a sure sign of China’s unreality that it thinks it can control the world’s media (more than 20,000 will be attending) and athletes, all at the same time. It can’t, it will try, but it will fail.

And what will be the international reaction be if Chinese security wade in with batons when three athletes on the winner’s podium begin signing ‘Free Tibet’ as they collect their medals?

In London in the past 48 hours, protesters have tried to extinguish the Olympic torch and snatch it away. Every news report (outside of China) mentions the protesters, and shows scenes of protesters scuffling with police.

This ugliness has only just begun. There are eleven more weeks of this before the torch reaches the Olympic Stadium in Beijing, and then the real protests will begin.

How much face can the Chinese stand to lose?

How many violent crackdowns and slayings of Tibetans and other protesters can the rest of the world tolerate before the calls begin to mount that the Beijing Olympics should not just be boycotted, but canceled?

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