News: Beijing Olympics Conspiracy Theory

I was following the inevitable protests in San Francisco today. At first, I marveled at the sheer stupidity of the IOC - run the torch in a city with one of the highest populations of disgruntled Chinese immigrants in the country? Even better was when they literally hid the torch in a warehouse and shipped it off by boat to another neighborhood:



The cynical part of me thinks that maybe they want people to protest - makes the run-up to the Summer Games more exciting than it'd be otherwise. After all, there's no such thing as bad publicity.