Tibetan protestors: Bush should skip Olympics

Bush doesn't give a hoot about Tibet! No oil or resources we can plunder.

China should never have been considered as a host of the Olympic Games, not with its anti-democratic position towards its neighbors or its own citizens. It must also be noted that the present version of the "official' Olympic Games are actually, nothing but money makers. They do not promote global harmony, nor do they promote the love of athletic competition, without the element of greed and money involved. I, for one, will be avoiding the, so called, games! I hope a lot of you will be thinking the same.
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I think the world cares and sympathizes with the Tibetan cause. Many leaders from U.S to Australia and Canada have come to show solidarity with the Tibetan leader Dalai Lama for the cause of saving Tibet from the atrocious communist regime of China.
Should the rest of the world skip out of the Olympics? I can't answer that one for any country. But the participant nations should not turn a blind eye to the way China has abused human rights in Tibet and their attempt to annihilate Tibetan culture by assimilating the Tibetan people into the Chinese culture.
Chinese in Tibet and those in China have been fed Maoist ideals and conditioned to believe that Tibet is part of China and other propagandas. However, if you read Central Asian history from the time Tibet was a unified country to the rise of the Manchus to the mid 20th centry, will you realize what was actually going in Tibetan history.
Tibet was a independent free country established in the 7th centry. China as a nation did not exist at that time.
Tibet has been free, all this time.
Free Tibet

People are not just marching in Washington, they're also marching in 79 other cities and 27 countries around the globe today.

"n Tibet, food and water supplies have reportedly been cut off at the three major monasteries around Lhasa. One hundred and forty Tibetans have died and more than a thousand Tibetans have been detained since the uprising began with peaceful protests on 10 March."

more details here
http://www.tibet.ca/en/newsroom/news_releases/110

We know we were misinformed by media and governement before went to Iraq war. I think we should not make the same mistake again. The real situation this time in Tibet is the Han Chinese were the victims by the violent attacks from Tibetan. The economy in US is a recession now. A bad relation with China will turn this recession further deep. The Europeans, particularly German, were very load about this Tibet issue. The reason behind it is that the German lose the contract (to Japan) to build the super high speed railway bewteen Beijing and Shangahi last year. The German is using the Tibetans to retaliate their bussieness loss in China. If media in US are soft on China this time, Boeing nay get more orders from China in future.

Bush should skip everything. Go back to Crawford TX war boy!!!

McCain = Four more years.

How dare those un-Christian 'monks' insult our main financial supported in these deficit times.

Will the monks finance our wars?

I think not!

ASK SPENGLER
Turn it into a theme park ...

Dear Spengler,
An ungrateful group of Buddhist monks are rebelling in a distant province of my country. I have done my best to deal with the matter quietly, but they have managed to get the leaders of Western countries involved. President Bush is demanding that I negotiate with their leader. I cannot give credibility to the instigator of a provincial rebellion without encouraging mutinies elsewhere, but I do not want to sour our relations with important countries, especially not with the Olympic Games in our capital this summer. What should I do?
Bothered in Beijing

Dear Bothered,
You might apply Spengler's Iron Law of History: stick around long enough, and you turn into a theme park. The province in question has an ancient and colorful culture with a devoted Western following among spiritual tourists, including a number of prominent Hollywood actors. It appeals to Western nostalgia for a non-existent past far from the anxieties of modern life. You can't afford to allow a province to secede, of course. Why not change the name of the provincial capital to "Shangri-La" and say that it isn't a province at all, but only a theme park? No one cares about a rebel theme park. Let the monks run the place, and give them the gate receipts as well as the food and beverage concession. They can spin their prayer wheels all day and get paid for it.

It's all about money, after all. As Abraham Lustgarten wrote of your rebels in the Washington Post on March 23, "Their culture has been packaged for tourism. Business is booming. But they aren't getting any of the bounty. This, more than violations of human rights and religious freedom, is what fueled the riots."

It may seem outrageous to turn a substantial chunk of territory over to an amusement park, but the idea has been floated before, of all places in the United States. New York Times columnist Nicholas D Kristof proposed to turn part of 10 American states into a theme park called "Buffalo Commons", thus "rescuing the rural Great Plains by returning much of it to a vast Buffalo Commons. The result would be the world's largest nature park, drawing tourists from all over the world to see parts of 10 states alive again with buffalo, elk, grizzlies and wolves" (October 29, 2003). That was before the boom in wheat prices, of course. Farming pays better than tourism these days. Still, if Americans can take seriously the idea of turning North Dakota into a Wild West theme park, they hardly can object to the same treatment for the province in question.

There is no shame in running a theme park. Some of my favorite cities have been theme parks for quite some time, for example Venice, the Las Vegas of the 17th century, or Vienna, where instead of Mickey and Goofy, you meet Mozart and Maria Theresa. That appears to be the main function of the British monarchy after the Diana business.

The monks do not practice a religion so much as a sort of folkloric animism that is out of place in the modern world. That is what makes them appear so charming to the spiritual tourists of the West. Attractions of this sort aren't rational, and there is no point arguing about it. Give the tourists and the monks what they want, and promote the exchange of currency for a spiritual frisson.
Spengler

Speaking of China, I personally think that ALL of the CEOs who are responsible for shipping our jobs overseas...since they obviously love that part of the world so much...should be FORCED TO LIVE THERE...in the country they've moved our jobs to, that is!!! It would be one thing if they paid the people there $1.00 an hour and lowered the prices accordingly, but NO...they want it ALL!!! Let the people who are getting the jobs that used to be ours buy the expensive products they make...if they CAN!!! But we really can't blame the poor workers...they're just trying to make a living. We should all buy AMERICAN, if AT ALL POSSIBLE AND TRY TO PUT THEM OUT OF BUSINESS!!!

World governments have given the PRC entrance into the WTO and awarded them with the Olympics, so then what does the government of the PRC do in return? Open fire on Tibetans in Lhasa, ENOUGH!

The all too quiet genocide of Tibet must be a concern for everybody. Those who would say an event such as the Olympics will help change the politics of the PRC are obviously more concerned with trade relations than human relations, and recent events show us that the PRC has not changed much since Tiananmen Square.

As the protesters get beaten, and god knows what, can we all finally say, enough

Remember from WWII this "First they came for my neighbor, and I did nothing, then they came for my brother and I did nothing and then they came for me". The PRC isn't only a problem for Tibet.

Tibetans in Lhasa, are risking their lives by the protests we see on the news... I can't help to feel though that they are fighting for the freedom of people everywhere, and not just symbolically.

anita shirreffs

The U.S. should stand up for Tibetans and show the world that we are the true leader of freedom and democracy. We at the very least should re-open the CIA military training camp for the Dalai Lama's resistance fighters at Camp Hale near Leadville, Colorado. The Dalai Lama worked for the CIA in 1950's-1970's. It's time for us to reward a long time friend and his followers.

We can ask Japanese to financially support the Free Tibet operation. Dalai Lama loves Japanese people. He enthusiastically endorsed a Japanese spiritual movement, 'Aum Shinrikyo', in 1980's-1990's.

We can also ask Germany for some substantial support from Europe. Germans had deep connections with Tibet in 1930's and 1940's. Dalai Lama's mentor in 1940's was Heinrich Harrer, a member of the 'Schutzstaffel'. These people are closely linked together. We can form a huge coalition force for sure to change Tibet back to Shangri-La.

Folks, it's time to stop sipping coffee and chatting endlessly about boycotting a steroid dimsum party. We need to do something real. Let's all dream together for a
Free Tibet!

It's all about money both on the china side and those going to the Olympics. Money is the God of the world. Nobody ever cared about people or Darfur, or Tibet or burma etc.

The U.S. should stand up for Tibetans and show the world that we are the true leader of freedom and democracy. We at the very least should re-open the CIA military training camp for the Dalai Lama's resistance fighters at Camp Hale near Leadville, Colorado. The Dalai Lama worked for the CIA in 1950's-1970's. It's time for us to reward a loyal friend and his followers.

Don't worry about the economy too much. We can ask Japanese to financially support the Free Tibet operation. The Dalai Lama loves Japanese people. He enthusiastically endorsed a Japanese spiritual movement, 'Aum Shinrikyo', in 1980's-1990's.

We can also ask Germany for some substantial support from Europe. Germans had deep connections with Tibet in 1930's and 1940's. The Dalai Lama's tutor in 1940's was Heinrich Harrer, a member of the 'Schutzstaffel'. These people are closely linked together. We can form a huge coalition force for sure to change Tibet back to Shangri-La.

We can't wait any more. It's now or never. Let's all dream together for a
Free Tibet, forever!

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Despite the recent human rights violations in Tibet, The International Olympic Committee still plans on passing the Olympic torch through Lhasa. China won the bid for the Olympics because of their promise to improve their human rights record, which in the past few weeks, they have fell back on. Bernard Kouchner, France's foreign minister is taking a stand and vowing to not attend the opening ceremonya move which many other leaders should consider.

We are all different cultures and choose to live different lifestyles, and in no way, shape or form should democratic ideals influence a way a country should be governed. However, when there are blatant signs that a government is violating human rights in their nation in an attempt to conform an autonomous and peaceful part of their country, measures should be taken from abroad. The least our country can do is not stand by China as they try to glorify their image in the Olympics. I think it would be wrong for Bush and other foreign leaders to give China any type of prestige or acknowledgment for that matter. They should do away with the opening ceremony and any glorification or honor that China may receive internationally.

Despite the recent human rights violations in Tibet, The International Olympic Committee still plans on passing the Olympic torch through Lhasa. China won the bid for the Olympics because of their promise to improve their human rights record, which in the past few weeks, they have fell back on. Bernard Kouchner, France's foreign minister is taking a stand and vowing to not attend the opening ceremonya move which many other leaders should consider.

We are all different cultures and choose to live different lifestyles, and in no way, shape or form should democratic ideals influence a way a country should be governed. However, when there are blatant signs that a government is violating human rights in their nation in an attempt to conform an autonomous and peaceful part of their country, measures should be taken from abroad. The least our country can do is not stand by China as they try to glorify their image in the Olympics. I think it would be wrong for Bush and other foreign leaders to give China any type of prestige or acknowledgment for that matter. They should do away with the opening ceremony and any glorification or honor that China may receive internationally.