Posted on 03/22/2008 7:11:39 PM PDT by indcons
"In 2006 Amnesty produced a report explicating the roles of Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google in undermining freedom of expression in China." [http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15363]
The sit down in protest. Bomb when they have to. It’s hard to find an angle against Buddhists...
They gotta think outside the box.
If the Tibetans discovered some oil they would get more attention from the world. Cynical, I know, but true.
China already thought about that, they didn’t find any oil.
Buddhists, the Asian equivalent of America’s Amish (in a non religious way) … Just leave us alone, and we will not bother you, nor will we be a burden.
That pretty much sums it up. Reading the books implies much more.
Interesting...
What group of people in the US would you say the muslims in Eurpean countries are most like?
Not equivocating their teachings, just their desire to do their own thing.
We can used to that. Our fearless leaders have sold us out for "free trade" deals and China owns the bank now. The U.S. can start looking back on the day when the world listened to her.
Now that's speaking truth to power. Oh, wait, he's talking about the UN. OK, it's speaking truth to teats on a tuskless boar.
I have always seen those bumper stickers that say...” Save Tibet” and I always think... gee why don’t the tibetens save themselves. As pacifists they would like others to pay the price of their freedom.
I shudder when I remember God is just.
That's simply not true
Buddhism is the largest religion in China, Buddhists far outnumber Muslims and Christians. Ever heard of the kungfu monks from Shaolin?
Buddhism is also the national religion of Thailand, Burma, Japan, and to some extend Vietnam and Cambodia.
Tibetan Buddhism is just a small branch of Buddhism.
Also Tibetan were hardly "peaceful", they were tough horse riding warriors. During Younghusband's invasion to Lhasa from British India, he fought his way through using belt-fed Maxim machine gun, killing 1700 but losing hundreds of his own soldiers.
I stand with the Tibetans.
Your comments are sad. And incredibly stupid. Do us all a favor and ban yourself from FR
On The Ground reports (through Japanese TV tonight).
Two of importance:
a) Troops pouring into Tibet from Communist China, are coming in from the furthermost areas with Red China, away from Tibet. i.e. reporters are noting vehicles coming in as far from as former Manchuria (Heiliungjang, etc). This confirms to the traditional Soviet and China crackdown of sending troops to rebelling areas with ethnics not connected in the remotest way to the area to be suppressed, to be more effective. It will be easy to order troops from Harbin to fire upon citizens in Lhasa in this way.
b) PLA troops are covering over their tanks that have the Chinese PLA marks ("81": 八一) for the 8th Route Army, with newspapers, to avoid coverage from foreign media or others (side and front of the tanks where these normally appear--a Japanese military specialist commented on the photos taken out of Tibet by Japanese tourists today). I saw these photos on Japanese TV just two hours ago.
(9:00 a.m. Eastern, Easter Sunday morning)
Bump...this critical update bears watching. Thanks and BTTT
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