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Sudan Immigrant To Carry US Flag In Beijing  
User currently offlineJohnboy From United States of America, joined Aug 1999, 2472 posts, RR: 1
Posted (4 years 9 months 2 weeks 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 1611 times:

Team Darfur member to have a VERY prominent position during the Opening Ceremonies.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/07/flag.bearer/index.html

A bit of a "F. U." to China after all. Good job Olympians!  Cool

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User currently offlineQANTAS077 From China, joined Jan 2004, 5746 posts, RR: 49
Reply 1, posted (4 years 9 months 2 weeks 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 1572 times:

political statement? here I was thinking the games were above politics?


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User currently offlineN867DA From United States of America, joined May 2008, 974 posts, RR: 1
Reply 2, posted (4 years 9 months 2 weeks 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 1563 times:



Quoting QANTAS077 (Reply 1):
political statement? here I was thinking the games were above politics?

They are.

Signed,

Moscow, USSR
1980

Los Angeles, USA
1984


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User currently offlinePacificjourney From New Zealand, joined Jul 2001, 2698 posts, RR: 9
Reply 3, posted (4 years 9 months 2 weeks 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 1549 times:

USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA

Excellent work, bloody Chinese thinking everyone was just going to toe the line ?


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User currently offlineJetjack74 From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 7336 posts, RR: 52
Reply 4, posted (4 years 9 months 2 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 1472 times:		 Support Airliners.net - become a First Class Member!

I saw a piece on CNN about him a few weeks ago. Remarkable what this lad has had to overcome.


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User currently offlineDougloid From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 5, posted (4 years 9 months 2 weeks 5 days 4 hours ago) and read 1410 times:



Quoting Jetjack74 (Reply 4):
I saw a piece on CNN about him a few weeks ago. Remarkable what this lad has had to overcome.

My wife worked for a social service agency involved in refugee resettlement here during the time there was an influx of Sudanese folks.

They're quiet, modest, unassuming and hard working people who keep their own counsel-which sometimes leads to problems with the local culture but for the most part, they'e a bunch of tough assed survivors.

User currently onlineMD11Engineer From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 13337 posts, RR: 64
Reply 6, posted (4 years 9 months 2 weeks 5 days 4 hours ago) and read 1392 times:



Quoting N867DA (Reply 2):
Quoting QANTAS077 (Reply 1):
political statement? here I was thinking the games were above politics?

They are.

Signed,

Moscow, USSR
1980

Los Angeles, USA
1984

You forgot Berlin, Germany
1936

Jan

User currently offlineSlider From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 6518 posts, RR: 37
Reply 7, posted (4 years 9 months 2 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 1366 times:



Quoting Johnboy (Thread starter):
A bit of a "F. U." to China after all. Good job Olympians!

Yes, it is a nice symbolic gesture, but does nothing to stop Chinese-sponsored genocide in Darfur.

User currently offlineGeekydude From China, joined Apr 2004, 398 posts, RR: 2
Reply 8, posted (4 years 9 months 2 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 1346 times:

Did you all notice there was a huge cheer for the US delegation? The average spectator couldn't not care less about who carried your flag. They just count on the US team to bring a good show in the coming 16 days. And they cheered for it.


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User currently offlineLTU932 From Germany, joined Jan 2006, 13864 posts, RR: 51
Reply 9, posted (4 years 9 months 2 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 1343 times:



Quoting Geekydude (Reply 8):
Did you all notice there was a huge cheer for the US delegation? The average spectator couldn't not care less about who carried your flag.

The average, uninformed spectator, but what about Chairman Hu and his cronies? I bet they were not exactly happy with a Sudanese refugee carrying the US flag.

User currently offlineMIAMIx707 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 10, posted (4 years 9 months 2 weeks 5 days ago) and read 1317 times:



Quoting QANTAS077 (Reply 1):
political statement? here I was thinking the games were above politics?

You were given some great responses in this post. Not surprisingly, the only one that had to find something negative about a good, 'pro-democracy' story.

User currently offlineCedars747 From Norway, joined Dec 2005, 2686 posts, RR: 23
Reply 11, posted (4 years 9 months 2 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 1249 times:



Quoting Johnboy (Thread starter):
Team Darfur member to have a VERY prominent position during the Opening Ceremonies.

I am not surprised,Darfur is full of Petrolium!


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