San Francisco Takes Olympic Torch Off-Route - washingtonpost.com

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**San Francisco Takes Olympic Torch Off-Route**
**Karl Vick** • 4/10/2008

heads up: this is a pretty old post, it may be outdated.

Thu Apr 10 2008

"I took my kids out of school early to see it," said Greta Keegan, waiting patiently on a curb along the announced route with Cormac, 9, and Maeve, who turned 12 on Wednesday. By 2 p.m. there was no sign of the torch

—San Francisco Takes Olympic Torch Off-Route - washingtonpost.com

French on rollerblades — I thought the French were stupid when they put the Olympic torch out themselves and put it on a bus surrounded by roller-blading cops. But we Americans, have topped that. In San Francisco, they changed the route and didn't bother to tell anyone.

The whole point of the torch going through a city is so that people can see it. Hiding it for security concerns is just dumb. If people want to protest, then that's their right, for that matter, it should be encouraged!

Brits protesting — Having the Olympics in Beijing is *very controversial*, the US and French governments agree (in part) with the protestors. Here's to the Brits for handling this right.