the Olympic Torch is in town

The Olympic Torch arrived in town this morning and will be run in the relay tomorrow morning.

I found this opinion by Sev Ozdowski reported in the Sydney Morning Herald quite interesting:

The controversy over security for the torch came as a former Australian human rights commissioner accused China of using the Beijing Games as a propaganda tool, in the same way Nazi Germany did in Berlin in 1936.

University of Sydney adjunct professor Sev Ozdowski said the forced removal of people living in Beijing to make way for the Games; the likely exclusion of Falun Gong and other dissidents from the Olympics; and China's attempt to use the Games to present itself as a new world power all echoed Nazi behaviour.

Dr Ozdowski — who as human rights commissioner wrote an influential report on the mandatory detention of children in immigration — said Chinese authorities were trying to use the Olympics to enhance China's status as a world power and economic success. He likened the treatment of Falun Gong practitioners to the exclusions of Jews from the 1936 Olympics.

He said the Olympic flame had come to represent civil liberties and freedoms and the fact it was being guarded by Chinese authorities and hidden away from the public was symbolic of the way civil liberties were being treated in China.

Dr Ozdowski said it was a "big problem" if allegations that the Chinese embassy in Australia was helping organise pro-Beijing demonstrations were true.

Hmmm...

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Thank goodness there is one more work day this week, tomorrow. I am looking forward to the long weekend.

Emily came around for dinner tonight. I made a simple roast pork with roast vegetables.