三番市长藐视华人的感觉

在三番市还发生这样的事，三分之一的华人人口，市长还这样藐视华人的感觉，真是不可思议。

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那些在指挥中心内的人说，市府官员和市长纽森看着越来越觉得不对劲。虽然一大早还有一个简短与"西藏团队"的混战，现在绝大多数的人群挥舞旗帜是中国的支持者。送火炬那些街道已经成为就象为中国政布置好的宣传广告。好象告诉世人几乎没有人在旧金山-或北美洲-有任何疑虑中国在侵犯人权。

以后他虽然没说，但是他承认他在最后作了决定。

。。。

大意是他不想让中国有一个显示的机会。抗议者都被淹没了，还传什麽火炬。改路线。

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