三番市長藐視華人的感覺

在三番市還發生這樣的事，三分之一的華人人口，市長還這樣藐視華人的感覺，真是不可思議。

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那些在指揮中心內的人說，市府官員和市長紐森看著越來越覺得不對勁。雖然一大早還有一個簡短與"西藏團隊"的混戰，現在絕大多數的人群揮舞旗幟是中國的支持者。送火炬那些街道已經成為就象為中國政布置好的宣傳廣告。好象告訴世人幾乎沒有人在舊金山-或北美洲-有任何疑慮中國在侵犯人權。

以後他雖然沒說，但是他承認他在最後作了決定。

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大意是他不想讓中國有一個顯示的機會。抗議者都被淹沒了，還傳什麽火炬。改路線。

Those inside the command center say city officials and Mayor Gavin Newsom watched the spectacle with growing concern. Although there was a brief scuffle with "Team Tibet" supporters around a bus early in the morning, the vast majority of the crowd was flag-waving China supporters. Sending the torch down those streets would have been like providing the Chinese government with a made-for-television commercial to show that hardly anyone in San Francisco - or North America - had any qualms about human rights abuses in China.

Newsom won't come out and say that, but he did concede that he took the decision right down to the final minutes.

"Literally, at 1 o'clock, we had two choices," he said in a phone conversation en route to the closing ceremony at the airport. "We could cancel the event or move forward in a different manner. We went to the torchbearers themselves, and overwhelmingly they said they supported the change."

http://web.wenxuecity.com/BBSView.php?SubID=na&MsgID=824293

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/09/MNIG1032A0.DTL