Why is everyone trying to put the olympic torch out?

Question

I don't understand what is behind this?

Please update me!

Answer 1

A sign of protest to the Chinese government for putting down the Tibet unrest recently.  Basically Tibet wants independence from China and the activists (terrorists in my eyes) are using the global attention on the Olympics to cause trouble and really not achieving anything.

And I agree, these people have no respect for the spirit of the Olympics.

Answer 2

Either that or the Carbon emissions in China will choke the flame out and everyone will die due to lack of oxyen.

Answer 3

Because they don't want the olympics to be held in China because they are masacering the people from Tibet.

Answer 4

because its being fueled by protestors

Answer 5

Because the Olympics should've been abolished years ago!!! They are pathetic, people running round with a flame in their hand thinking they're all cool, but why do other people enjoy to watch it. I would gladly assist those trying to put out the torch, if given the chance

Answer 6

They do not have the guts to protest in China.  San Francisco and Berkeley, CA is crawling with these "mutt people" claiming human rights violations in China towards Tibet, thousands of miles away from the government that is so-called persecuting them.  Boo hoo.....  

If you can't handle a country like China that rules with an iron fist, then those citizens that protest are the lowest form of coward that walks this Earth.  It seems that in the 21st century, nobody will lift a finger towards you unless you commit a crime.  That's what I see in Falun Gong's and the Tibetian's posters.  Criminals executed by Chinese law enforcement for their crimes, and not innocent bystanders, short and simple!

I'd hope for some group like the Chinese government, incognito, exterminating the disease from the San Francisco Bay Area called Falun Gong and the Tibetian "mutt people".  We don't need these foreigner troublemakers here on US soil making a mockery of America because we don't have anything to do with their "imaginary" human rights violations.....  

Imagine yesterday when those "caucasian and hippy" protesters, that don't even look like they have Asian blood in them, tying up traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge and roads leading up to it.  Consider if someone's family member needed emergency transportation to the hospital and died because the protestors tied up the roads due to stupidity.....

Answer 7

people are buttheads.

Answer 8

It is because the games are being held in China and people are against Chinas human rights policies, specifically the way they are being with Tibet.....

(Above is a very condensed answer)

Answer 9

They have no respect and have a mob mentality.

But hey, it's a breath of fresh air compared to the consistent anti-Americanism around the world for the past years.

Answer 10

A question I would like answered also... isn't the torch supposed to symbolise peace??

Answer 11

I don't understand either. The Games are supposed to be somewhere where we can get along on a global scale and forget about the scuffles and tiffs between warring nations, promote good sportsmanship, have some friendly competition. I don't care who you are, to try and destroy the good nature the Olympics are SUPPOSED to represent is just plain wrong. Blame the anarchists!

Answer 12

In a nutshell; it's because they have a "beef" with China- and it's refusal to grant Tibetan's Independance. So they're Protesting China's hosting the Olympics.

Answer 13

Because they are protesting the way CHINA is treating their citizens and their actions in Tibet.  China's government is horrible, corrupt and militant.  do a little research and you will find many human rights violations, poor living conditions of their citizens and the crappy way they treat the environment.

Answer 14

because china has huge human rights issues.

Answer 15

Helping protect the planet.