A Redshirt Proves That Whole 'Goon And Thug' Charge Wrong

A Beijing booster peacefully rises -- and then kicks an unarmed man in the back.

(Image of Olympic Torch protest in Seoul, South Korea from the Taipei Times)

Remember:  These are the very same Chinese "students" Ma Ying-jeou, the KMT and the China Post want to import into Taiwan to have the run of the place. 

Of course, there'll be no such problems here.  Never, ever, ever. 

What makes you think otherwise?
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Postscript:  Think only Saddam Hussein or Al Qaeda use children as human shields?  Readers will receive only one guess as to who else does.

. . . the fierce display of nationalistic pride by a pro-Chinese crowd of up to 10,000 caught everyone [in Canberra] by surprise.

Ask Karuna Bajracharya, a 26-year-old Nepalese pro-Tibet supporter who now lives on the South Coast.

He says he was walking toward Parliament House when, "I saw a mob of Chinese men. They started yelling and hitting me with their flags.

"There was a father with his son who was about five or six years old and the kid was hitting me. His father actually said to him, 'Keep hitting him.'

"Then he said to me, 'if you don't like it, hit him in the head'. He wanted me to hit his son, so he could retaliate and the whole thing could get out of hand."  [emphasis added]

(Hat tip to China Rises)

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UPDATE (Apr 29/08):  Anyone notice the hypocrisy here:

China's oft-repeated mantra is that human rights are a domestic issue and other countries should not interfere in domestic politics . . .

China buses in its students to participate in pro-Olympic torch demonstrations in America, Australia, Japan and Korea.  Its mobs also use intimidation and force against anti-torch protesters who happen to be CITIZENS of those countries.

But can foreign students organize themselves to protest the torch on Chinese soil?  'Course not -- that'd be interfering in domestic politics!

UPDATE (May 4/08):  More on the victim here.