Hi to allI agree with Kathy. I am a very quiet member and I hardly read an
entire mail throughly. But I read Kathy's and I have to admit, they should be
boycotted, I also have a few friends that I cant reach, and it is very
frustrating not to be able to reach someone whom you care for.

All the best over there,

Joe A.A. Arrindell Jr. Physiotherapist Fitness Instructor Easy tape Instructor
I.I.S.A. Inline-skate Instructor www.movetocure.com
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Katimac@...: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 21:19:29 -0700Subject: RE:
[inline-instruction] Skating Cops Protecting Olympic Torch Runners




Hi D.You know I love you for all you do for the sport of skating. I also
knowthat you listen to your skaters, so I'm hoping you'll be willing to hear
arequest from this skater regarding skaters and the Olympic Torch
Relay:Normally, I'd be all for skaters helping police with crowd
control,especially when there's an opportunity to get skating and skaters
ontelevision in the process. But these Olympics are controversial for
goodreason. China is the worst air and water polluter in the world,
callouslybrushing off world environmental organizations' pleas for reform
withexcuses like "The empire is large, and the emperor far away." China has
theworst human rights abuse record of any nation. They execute more people
inthree months than the entire rest of the world combined does in a year.
InChina, if you so much as post something on the internet suggesting that
itmight indeed be time for the Chinese government to bring it's policies
onpollution or human rights or democracy into line with the rest of the
modernworld, you can expect to be hunted down, beaten and thrown into
prisonindefinitely. Finally, China has kicked all foreigners out of Tibet, and
shut downinternet access and telecommunications to the outside world in the wake
ofthe Tibetans' recent protests demanding release of previous protesters whohave
been rotting away in Chinese prisons for years. What do you think theChinese are
doing to those protesters while the world cannot see? Itraveled to Tibet twice
in my role as a Zephyr Guide. I saw for myself howthe Chinese abuse the Tibetans
while raping and pillaging their lands,temples and culture. These days I am
worried sick about my Tibetanco-guide, our camp cook and his young staff, the
nuns and monks we met onour travels, etc. I cannot reach any of them. I do not
know if they havefallen victim to the violent crack down the Chinese have meted
out, or themiddle-of-the-night home searches where the Chinese cart off anyone
who isnot an immediate family member on the assumption that they must therefore
bea protester hiding from the police.The Tibetans were and are risking their
lives to raise awareness of thebrutal oppression they are suffering under the
Chinese occupation of theircountry. We in the US, who have the freedom to raise
our voices, write aneditorial or march in protest any time we want, owe it to
the oppressed toraise our voices in support of those who the Chinese would try
to silence. The Chinese want to use the Olympics to show off what a modern,
economicallysuccessful country they have become. Never mind that their economic
successcomes largely because it's cheap to manufacture everything when you
don'thave to clean up the toxic pollution the factory spits out, and you can
getyour raw materials from huge strip mines and clear cuts in previouslypristine
Tibetan wildernesses. To me, helping the police keep US protesters outside of
camera range duringthe Olympic torch relay, is simply fighting for the wrong
side. If you wantto showcase skating when the torch passes through, call the
press and skateyour own torch relay with big banners that say "Carrying a Torch
for Tibet"and "Boycott Made in China."Kathy McSparranDirector, Phoenix Inline
Skate SchoolZephyr Adventures Guide-----Original Message-----From:
inline-instruction@yahoogroups.com[mailto:inline-instruction@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Ofsk8godfather@...: Monday, April 07, 2008 11:51 AMTo:
sfskaters@...: [inline-instruction] Skating Cops Protecting
Olympic Torch RunnersHi Skaters,One week before we start the SF to Santa Monica
Skate Against Violence. Check out the video of the skating cops in Paris as they
try to protect theOlympic Torch runners. We might do the same here in San
Francisco. I ammeeting today about the possibility.http://www.sfgate.
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object...433D42.DTL&o=0>com/cgi-bin/object...433D\
42.DTL&o=0D. Miles Jr.The GodFather of Skatinghttp://www.cora.
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