Today I was handing out pamphlets on the street to try to provide the British public with a different perspective to look at the Tibet issue. In doing so, I encountered

1)     An old lady who shouted to me “go back to your suppressive country”

2)     An Eastern-European-sound man who kept pointing his finger at me, shouting “shame on you”

3)     A police officer who said contemptuously to me “why don’t you ask your people to go away” and told me with a very serious tone “what your country did was wrong” while four of his fellow officers were busy beating up a Chinese protester who tried to push back while the police was squeezing about 6 lines of Chinese protesters towards a wall that was about one meter from the first line, hurting a large number of people, including the beaten man’s girlfriend, who screamed bleakly when her boy friend’s blood was seen on the floor. In the mean time, the Free-Tibet protesters were given a massively larger space, albeit having smaller number of people.

4)     Two Central-European looking people insisted that I was brainwashed by the Chinese government, and asked me, repetitively, how much the Communist government is paying me.

When I came back home, I saw the following scene on TV:

1)     A free-Tibet protester took the Olympic torch away from a female torchbearer

2)     Another free-Tibet protester fired fire-extinguisher at the Olympic flame

Conclusion from BBC and other Western media – A great day for freedom and democracy…

If democracy means freedom of expressing and spreading hatred, I’d rather not have it in my country.

Let us all work extra hard in whatever we do. One day...those who trash China will be seriously sorry... (This final line do sound like propaganda ... and this is probably exact why I start to wonder maybe, sometimes, the Communist officials genuinely mean what they say sometimes...)