Live from the Nuke Free Zone

In IRC, Primis brought up some interesting news about the Olympic Torch: they’re having military personnel shadow the torch-bearer. This led to a short debate, Zibblsnrt considering the soldiers’ presence to be a show of fear, letting the terrorists change our habits, while William sees the guards as a necessity in these times. I see validity in both arguments. As William further argued, it’s a matter of degrees, but having a lot of soldiers around might be enough degrees to push me towards Zib’s side.

Then it was noted the torch has been attacked before, though not by terrorists: in 2000, some idiot kid tried to put out the torch with a fire extinguisher. I promptly dubbed him the anti-Beavis.

Comments are open if anyone wants to discuss Olympics security, the quality of the Olympics’ television coverage, the Olympics’ popular standing versus annual sports, or anything having to do with the Olympics.