Look at the Beijing Torch in Kuala Lumpur held by Torchbearer Tunku Imran Tuanku Ja’afar yesterday.

It shows you that some of us in Malaysia due need to exercise more and eat less of the delicious yet oily Malaysian food. There were all in all 80 torchbearers, which indicates that there isn’t much extra exercise per person involved to get the torch from Merdeka Square at 14.00h to KLCC at 18.00h.

But with the torch incidents in London and other parts over the world, I was most afraid for teargas and the kind. For those following Malaysian politics: if you voice your voice on the street, you had to swallow some teargas last few months.

Anyway, seems that when there are no national politics involved, teargas is not on the menu either

So all went peaceful, which leaves me to wonder how come Malaysians can organize a peaceful torch run and other countries can’t?

Are we that good, and if so, then why do we need to use teargas on political demonstrators and not use the means used now in order to keep all things peaceful?

Or is it that the western countries deliberately reduce their security in order to get China in a negative spotlight?

Being a western expat myself, I am quite sad and embarrassed that western countries cannot or do not provide the security the Beijing Torch deserves.

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