Opinion Talk

By LilZ

March 31, 2008 3:46 PM | Link to this

Wow, zero comments? I guess this is what happens when you post an topic that requires a brain AND awareness of the world outside your own borders. I don’t think you have to be willing to go to Tibet and fight in order to believe that Tibet should be freed from Chinese oppression. There are lots of other ways to support Tibet. You can boycott Chinese products and encourage your friends to do the same. You can purchase Tibetan products. You can donate to international nonprofit organizations that support the people of Tibet such as the International Campaign for Tibet (www.savetibet.org) or the Tibetan Women’s Association (www.tibetanwomen.org). You can write letters to your congressmen and women, asking them to create legislation in support of Tibet.

Some of these efforts may seem fruitless but, as with any good cause, every little bit helps.

Besides, the Tibetan people who fight for independence and are willing to die do not feel that they are dying “needlessly.” Freedom is the ONLY reason to fight to the death.

By Larry the Lover

March 31, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this

Do we live in a free country?

By Dick Lacher

April 1, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this

Quoted from the above opinion - “Part of the problem is we have too many vocational intellectuals and way too few real intellectuals. A vocational intellectual is someone who makes a living writing or talking.”

Excuse me, but isn’t Charley Reese a “vocational intellectual?” He is a “columnist” for King Features Syndication. I guess that means Cynthia Tucker, Jim Wooten and Angela Tuck are vocational intellectuals. Just on different subjects. I wonder how the founding fathers of the United States would feel about Mr. Reese’s comments about Tibet wanting to be “free and independent?” Or maybe native Americans?

By Jerry Weinberg

April 1, 2008 3:39 PM | Link to this

“Tibet is Part of China…” When citizens of any country are abused, it is the right and privilege of free “outsiders” to object. It is not simply a question of separation or autonomy, as Charley Reese would have us believe, or his linkages to our government’s actions or reactions to Afghanistan, Iran, or Iraq. An uncompromised Olympics provides perhaps the only leverage with China that might restore calm and save lives in Tibet.

By william bilek

April 2, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

Despite the fact that Tibet, as a country, has a history, and its people have a distinct society, language and religion, Mr. Reese advises the people of Tibet to resign themselves to the permanent loss of their freedom, their religion and their culture, because “The Chinese can do it.” Furthermore, the democracies of the world should not encourage the population of Tibet to rise up against their oppressors, and heaven forbid that the olympic athletes, or the Chinese government be inconvenienced, or embarassed by a proposed olympic boycott. On the other hand, if one were to read other opinion pieces by Mr. Reese, the major source of terrorism, misfortune, and all evil befalling America and the world is - the tiny state of Israel. Having successfully defended itself in numerous wars over the last 60 years, initiated by surrounding Arab states, Israel is termed an “aggressor.” Not so, China. The unallocated, disputed territories that have come under Israeli control as a result of those wars are termed “occupied territories”. Not so, Tibet. Although a country of “Palestine” has never existed, and the “Palestinian people” share the same culture, religion, language, and history of the surrounding 23 other Arab states, Mr. Reese insists that they deserve a country of their own. Not so, the Tibetans. Mr. Reese wants the world to applaud Palestinian efforts to attract attention to their cause by targeting, and murdering Israeli women and children, and asks the countries of the world to support the Palestinians in their clearly stated goal of exterminating the Jewish state. I suppose it is the misfortune of the Tibetans that they are battling the Chinese, and not the Jews.

By Tim Dunn

April 3, 2008 2:28 AM | Link to this

Zhao Ziyang and Hu Yaobang were Chinese Communist party leaders who wanted freedom for all citizens of China-including the Tibetans, and the people who demonstrated in Tianenmen Square and who were killed or jailed for it. They were kicked out of their leadership roles by the hardliners, kept incommunicado, and placed under house arrest for the remainder of their lives.

The Olympic torch was lit recently in China, but it isn’t the torch the Chinese people wanted. Their torch was held aloft by their statue of the Goddess of Liberty, the one that they built. That torch was torn down, and the people were attacked and killed or jailed by the “People’s” army in Tiananmen square in 1989.

Young adults in China today know nothing of this, because the Chinese government propaganda machine has vilified the hundred thousand patriots who demonstrated for freedom that day, and dismissed them as a few anti-social hooligans. This process is, of course, taking place today in China, only it is currently directed against the Tibetan demonstrators and the Dalai Lama. If the Tiananmen Square demonstrators had been successful in reforming the Chinese government, I doubt if there would have been the demonstrations in Tibet, because the people of Tibet would probably have had far fewer grievances.

You can see a photo of the “Goddess of Liberty” and read about the Tiananmen Square massacre on Wikipedia- just Google: Wikipedia Tiananmen Square Massacre

Now the Chinese government, run by the very same people who conducted the Tiananmen Square Massacre and then lied about it, asks us to believe that the pacifistic Buddhist monks of Tibet are preparing to become suicide bombers.

I see that Hu Jintao has been swotting up on Mein Kampf by Adolph Hitler, with particular attention to “The Big Lie.” Read all about it by Googling: Wikipedia the big lie .

By Tim Dunn

April 3, 2008 2:34 AM | Link to this

Joseph Goebbels, head of the Nazi Propaganda ministry, wrote the following in an article dated 18 March 1939, “As the Führer finished his proclamation to the German (sic) at 5 a.m. an historical decision had taken place. Shortly after, radio stations told the world that the historic provinces of Bohemia and Moravia had returned to the federation of the Greater German Reich. State President Hacha himself had asked the Führer to assume the protection of these provinces, noting that he ‘was confidently placing the fate of the Czech people and nation in the hands of the Führer of the German Reich.’ The so-called Czecho-Slovakia ceased to exist. In a single night a nation vanished that in reality had never been a nation.”

Sound familiar? Maybe a little like Chinese government pronouncements that Tibet is and always has been part of China? Those representatives of other governments that hasten to reassure the Chinese government that they agree remind me of Neville Chamberlain, as well. “Peace in our time!” Unless, of course, you happen to be Czechoslovakian, or Tibetan. Doesn’t the Chinese government say that Taiwan is also part of China? I wonder just how long “our time” is, anyway.

I’m sure the Taiwanese must wonder, and I would also wonder if I were: Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, Burmese, or Indian—all countries which share borders with China, and all of whom at one time or another “paid tribute” to China, and are, therefore, by Chinese criteria, on Chinese soil.

And now, the Chinese are following Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf,’ which advised rulers to make big lies rather than little ones, as people don’t expect such effrontery. Chinese propaganda is now accusing Buddhist monks of plotting suicide bombings!

By Pratish

April 11, 2008 10:25 PM | Link to this

From years of jottling for their independence from the cruel communist regime in China, Tibetans must now realise that independence cannot be won by mere showcasing their cause in international forums and staging protests against the Chinese government during international events (including the ongoing Olympic torch run). Do the Tibetan people and especially Dalai Lama really think that International agencies and other countries like US, India will take up their cause for autonomy and lock horns with the Chinese govt on the issue? If yes, then i must say that I havent met a bunch of most falsely optimistic people than the Tibetans in my life. With growing globalisation and dependency of countries on each other’s economy for mutual growth taking up the centrestage, no body would like to agitate the other party by bringing up sensitive issues. Even US is pursuing the Tibetan and Taiwan issue to the extent that they keep a strict vigil on China’s growing military prowess and yes, they dont pull the elastic too far to take the ire of the Chinese govt also. This is evident from the fact that inspite of huge no. of human rights violation cases springing up in China, US has failed to impose any economic or military sanctions against China. All because even the US cant afford to take any actions against the fastest growing economy and military power in the world. Now the question arises, how do the Tibetans then fight for their cause against the mighty Chinese regime??? First of all, Tibetans must have a common goal to achieve and that should be nothing short of complete independence from the erstwhile Chinese govt. Dalai Lama’s motive of complete independence changing to autonomy under the Chinese has not helped their cause at all, instead weakened it. Secondaly, its the Tibetans only who can fight for their independence and nobody else can do it for them, no matter how much they cry over it in front of others. Independence is a thing to fight for, not beg for. Thirdly, if Mahatma Gandhi and other Indian leaders would have taken asylum in some other country and fought for Indian independence staging protests and shouting slogans from there, India would have never achieved independence. Point is, you can’t cook a dish if the flame is too far.

By The Love Hack

April 13, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this

World War Two started with Germany occupying Poland. World War Two ended with Russia occupying Poland.

‘muff said about any chance the world has to not destroy itself. It’s called spin…and no two spins can ever be alike, because observers cant occupy the same space/time together, sir.

Thus as we reward military contractors with wars for their lobbying skills we slide inexorably toward our doom, caviar and mistresses all the way. Check out how China’s building up their navy under our noses.

Dont worry, it’s probably all part of God’s plan. You see He realized that He could only cause one good flood, and he promised he wouldn’t drown us again. Now, he cant wait forever for another asteroid hit, thus we destroy ourselves in time for the second coming and judgement day, and of course, Armeggedon, a name which is a corruption of the biblical quote, “duh, me keel you”.

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