Tomorrow the olympic touch will be paraded around London.  So here is my oppotunity to wish for our humun rights protests to overshadow any attempt of the Chinese to pretend that their charade of a games is anything other than an attempt to make their country seem plausibly integrative to the rest of the world.

The british can be pretty good at protest, so I hope, and I disown them if they don’t, that the police do not permit the Chinese to force any protests to ridiculous restrictions.  Such as they did with the G8 summit.  This is so much more important than that.