the violence inherent in the system
This afternoon I saw an AP story about protests at the Olympic torch-lighting ceremony. The headline was something like "Protest Mars Torch-Lighting Ceremony" and one of the first quotes was from a Greek Olympic official in high dudgeon because protesters had dared to besmirch such an important event with their petty concerns about, you know, people getting killed in the streets of Tibet. I think you can guess from that last sentence that I had a big ranty rant all set to go about the relative importance of a pointless orgy of sports-based nationalism vs. people getting killed in the streets of Tibet. But when I got home and checked my link to the AP story, I discovered that it wasn't quite the same story anymore. I wonder if they got complaints or if the story just went in a different direction in the longer version as more complete info became available.