RSF attack Olympic Torch Ceremony in Greece

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Monday March 24, 2008 19:08

by Fu Manchu

Commercial news organisations are already carrying the story that earlier today three "pro-Tibetans" were arrested at Mount Olympus, Greece after attempting to disrupt the beginning of the Olympic Torch route. But most newspapers & TV portals will not highlight the specific group responsible for the action; Reporters Sans Frontiers or RSF members used their press privileges to bypass tight security & wave their banner. By doing so they have endangered press privileges & cast any doubt aside as to the true nature of the supposed "pro-Tibetan" nature of the recent global mobilisation against the Olympiad (first) & Peoples' Republic of China (second).

Robert Menard of RSF & identified CIA agent attacks the International Olympic Commitee & abuses press privileges.

RSF launched their campaign against the 2008 Olympics in Beijing long before most westerners had been brought into the "yellow peril" fold by concentrating their rage at human rights abuses in Burma/Myanmar at PRC alone. In the first months of 2007, RSF had already begun to find itself marginalised amidst serious accusations & allegations of collaboration between its directorate and the secret services of both France & the CIA. It has been several years since their once respected annual publication "The annual Press Freedom Report" has appeared on this newswire. That is not only because Ireland supposedly went from 6th to 17th position to finally share position one with several other nordic states the very same years it merited the most paragraphs in Amnesty International reports on torture, psychiatric abuses and abuse of police powers.

c/f 2002 - 2006 http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75847
2005 Ireland ranked joint first for second year running
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74230
2004 Ireland ranked joint first
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/67220
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=66442
2003 Ireland ranked 17th http://www.indymedia.ie/article/61796
2002 Ireland ranked 6th http://www.indymedia.ie/article/15991

But also for the very sordid story of how RSF's directorate moved from personae non grata at global "internet governance" summits c/f http://www.indymedia.ie/article/72984 to outrightedly being accused of selective campaigning & collusion with both French secret services and the CIA.

The main object of those accusations was & is Robert Menard co-founder & current secretary general of RSF, a Canadian born journalist based in Paris.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M%C3%A9nard

Menard is listed by Cuban intelligence as having been a CIA operative (not just asset) since 1985.

So today as the banner of RSF, five interlocking handcuffs, waved at the starting ceremony of the 2008 Olympiad in Greece - we ought ask; whose campaign is being forwarded?

In the interests of fair-play, impartiality, good sport & so on - so forth - we might now wonder at the role RSF has played in investigating rendition, CIA torture, breaches of the Geneva & Vienna conventions in Europe through the presence of dark prisons &c.

Indeed our first stop would be the very same Robert Menard's statement in support of torture :-
http://rue89.com/2007/08/26/quand-robert-menard-de-rsf-...rture

Report on today's inflitration by RSF members abusing press privileges, (& incidently breaking the international conventions which guarantee those journalist privileges by blatent political action), of the Olympiad event from the French leftwing daily "Liberation". Our next stop would be wondering at the role RSF & Menard has played in the search for peace in the South American triangle of Colombia, Venezuela & Ecuador. & then we'll see how press freedom & privileges in both Greece & China are affected by today's little shenanigans.

http://www.liberation.fr/actualite/sports/317321.FR.php
merci beaucoup monsieur rothschild