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Apr 8, 2008, 22:30 GMT
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Hugo Chavez is once again on the wrong side of right.
China should send all of the tibetans to the US reservation...Why because it seems to be working for the Europeans.
It is not surprising that the Dalia lama's clique of rich actors choose to attempt to ruin one of the few events that the world celebrates in concord together, the individual spirit's power to unite us with their victories. We share with enthusiasm and bask in the light of their achievements.
The Olympics began in the cradle of western democracy principles and ideals.
Tibetan never experienced any thing remotely resembling democracy under the 14 Dalia lamas over the last 350 years. He devised a slave, serf medieval class structure that rode on the backs of the Tibetan people for far too long. It was the PRC that liberated the people of Tibet.
This Dalia lama is no different now after 49 years than his peredcesspors.
Only last month before he incited the rioting in Tibet.
The Dalia lama threw out a 350 year old respected order of the Tthe Tibetan Mahayana Gulug lineage of Dorje Shugden into the streets of India.
Thousands of the clergy are now confronted by Tibetan Vigilante ggons to harass them out of the Colonies. Why?
He wears two mantles of authority that tread daily on our Founding Father's principles of equality and freedom of speech and religion. He He does not adhere to our Bill Of Rights.Nor would he know what to dowit them in his government in exile.
The western news reporting is as blind to the history of the Dalia lama as are the Free Tibet people are. Free to go back to a free Tibet that never existed except as a medieval time warp in a despots mind.
Why should Bush skip the games, aside from a short attention span that might see him falling asleep in the slower stretches? Bush will be right among friends in Beijing. Given his use, and defense of torture as policy, and his confinement of prisoners in offshore prisons without charges, legal representation, trial, or even access to the Red Cross, Bush will most certainly fit in. We may bristle at the idea of a U.S. president not making a statement against China's miserable human rights record, but our record--the one most Americans studiously ignore--is so spotty, whatever we could say to China would only cause China to laugh. We have almost no influence over China, and whatever we do have will diminish over time, for a variety of reasons. We still, at least in theory, have influence over our own government and its policies, and we should start to focus our efforts on reforming that out of control beast, which is increasingly the single worst threat to our liberties, and peace around the world.
'Thomas Canada'
LOL, like you are not a chi-com.
In my humble opinion the Tibetans are not bringing the right idea to their cause. They are going about it all wrong. I am disgusted with them. The Olympics are a sporting event and sports should not be mixed with politics. The fact that they are trying to do that shows that politically they have no chance in hell and thats why their desperate acts of violent demonstrations. In case you bozoos are wondering I am not Chinese but Venezuelan and support Hugo Chavez' decision to speak up on China's behalf.
When some people claimed that 1.2M Tibetans were killed, I have to tell them, yes, 1.2M died, but they were not men or women though, they were semen; when some people thought Tibet was an independent country, then I have to tell them, maybe it was, but that was before the concept of a country was born; when some people believed that the criminals who burned the innocent girls to death and beat the bystanders to death only wanted their voices to be heard, I have to tell them, yes, their voices were heard, but won't be anymore.
Over the last 60 years over 1.2 million Tibetans have been massacred in cold blood by the Chinese military. Why has the world remained silent? Why?
China's human rights abuses are 'staggering': the detention of hundreds of thousands of people, including political activists, for 'reeducation' programs, and forced labor camps; and the liberal use of the death penalty in China -- including for political prisoners -- which makes China the site of 8 of every 10 government administered executions carried out in the world!
It is clear that the Communists can't be trusted at all and they have a bag full of tricks to fool not only Tibetans but the people of China with a state-controlled press. The solution is a free Tibet. There is no doubt that a sovereign Tibet would be a savior state not only for Tibetans but for all ethnic groups of China who have nowhere to go if they disagree with the CCP. A free Tibet would be such a free democratic heaven and haven.
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