Gwyneth ... your plight, I mean your video - all Americans abroad should vote, because that is our right. I agree. I agree that as Americans we possess certain rights, unique and radically different from most of the world. While you champion our rights, that we as Americans possess, you are, and should be honest, in saying what you implicitly argue - we are special.
Yet then why does the left so wish to denigrate the greatness of America and make us, no different than any other nation. No different than Australia or Canada, or Japan, not morally superior to France or China ....
Woman Falls From SF Chinese Consulate
NBC[Thursday, August 07, 2008 07:31]
SAN FRANCISCO -- Another protest against the Beijing Summer Olympics attracted attention in San Francisco on Tuesday after a demonstrator fell two stories from the façade of the Chinese Consulate building in the city. She was taken to San Francisco General Hospital.San Francisco police are investigating whether a woman, who was climbing the building to protest China's human rights record in Tibet, fell because her rope failed or because someone cut it.
The woman, Nyendak Wangden, was dangling near the roof when she fell to a patio. She is a member of the group "Students For A Free Tibet," the same group that hoisted a giant sign on the Golden Gate Bridge earlier this year.
The protest unfolded slowly, NBC Bay Area's Lisa Bernard reported. The woman swung over a wall from the roof while three women chained themselves to the ornamental lions at the entrance to the consulate, Bernard reported. There were about two dozen protesters on the scene in all.
A friend of the protester, Brianna Morgan, stood nearby to support her body, Bernard said.
There Wangden dangled for 20 minutes, holding a sign with a message for China. Police arrived as Chinese representatives looked anxious, Bernard said.Two women dressed in black staged mock hangings from the roof of the building, holding banners that said, "Stop the Killing in Tibet" while other protesters from the group and the Tibetan Youth Congress waved signs.
Then came a scream and a thud as the woman dropped 20 feet, from the top floor to a balcony on the second floor, Bernard said. The experience was horrifying for friends who saw it, Bernard said.
NBC Bay Area also showed video taken by a tourist in a hotel room across the street.
The video showed Morgan being pushed moments before she dropped, Bernard said."We were here for a nonviolent protest," said Tenzin Khando, 22, of Salt Lake City, one of the protesters.
"It is supposed to be nonviolent because the Chinese are using the Olympics as propaganda. This is what's happening in front of our eyes. Imagine what's happening behind closed doors."
She wiped away tears as she watched firefighters load Wangden into one of their trucks.
Fire crews used a ladder and a stretcher to bring the woman down from the second floor balcony.
The stretcher was a precaution in case the woman's spine or neck had been damaged, fire Lt. Mindy Talmadge said.
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