'Free Tibet' flags made in China

[Ichingcarpenter]

Source: bbc

Police in southern China have discovered a factory manufacturing Free Tibet flags, media reports say.

The factory in Guangdong had been completing overseas orders for the flag of the Tibetan government-in-exile.

Workers said they thought they were just making colourful flags and did not realise their meaning.

But then some of them saw TV images of protesters holding the emblem and they alerted the authorities, according to Hong Kong's Ming Pao newspaper.


The factory owner reportedly told police the emblems had been ordered from outside China, and he did not know that they stood for an independent Tibet.



Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7370903.stm

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[IronLionZion]

1. Well everything is made in China now. nt

[izquierdista]

3. Paging Mr. Wen, paging Mr. Wen

There's a call from a Mr. Lenin, asking if his rope order is ready.

[Cassandra]

2. What was that line about...

capitalists selling the rope used to hang them?

[shain from kane]

4. Quote from Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

"The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."

[gObama08]

5. wow

Why am I not surprised...

[Theres-a]

17. Welcome to DU!

Where I get more cynical commiseration than anywhere else!:hi:

[Critters2]

25. Welcome to DU!

[n2doc]

6. And to think that I thought that this toon was fiction...

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. Great Toon and it came true too

the irony of this story got me also.

[Dr.Phool]

8. Are they available at Mall-Wart yet?

[McCamy Taylor]

9. Capitalists will make and sell the rope used to hang them. But China is communist.....

:rofl:

[krkaufman]

11. I don't know enough to accurately characterize the government and economy of China ...

... but I feel I'm knowledgeable enough to say that Marx wouldn't recognize "communism" in much of anything China does. Whatever roots China had in communism, they've shifted more towards authoritarianism and fascism. The US and China are both heading towards the same target, but from different directions.

[palindrome]

16. agree

Marx's financial problems and desire to live in an egalitarian utopia combined with a general economic pressure on the working class led to the interjection of violent revolution into an obviously evolutionary process. We once had kings, right? The root word is commune, however, and I believe marx would say that communism cannot exist until capitalism does not. Trade between small democratic communities on a global level is almost an evolutionary certainty.

[krkaufman]

18. And I would think that pure communism cannot exist under authoritarian or totalitarian rule ...

... just as unregulated capitalism is antithetical to democracy.

[palindrome]

21. Well total power = totalitarian, eh?

I guess that's why we have super delegates, to stop the mob from having total control of this melee.. :)

[krkaufman]

24. Yes, perhaps. Especially given that some states have open primaries ...

... in which malicious Republicans and independents could have undue influence.

[WheelWalker]

19. I couldn't agree with you more, Comrade.

[xioaping]

22. China is capitalist

One party system that has embraced capitalism. Communist in name only.

[stimbox]

10. That's hilarious. China making money off of Free Tibet dorks.

:rofl:

[Kolesar]

13. Yeah. Tibet is better off under Chinese rule

:sarcasm:

[stimbox]

15. It's been part of China for over 700 years...

Only when the Communists took over and booted out the landowners did it become an issue.
The Dali Lama's group are no didfferent than the Cuban exile crybabies in Miami.

[truthisfreedom]

12. Ha ha!

[El Supremo]

14. Wow! That's better than this >>

[samsingh]

20. love the irony

but the same as mccain being for the poverty stricken

[TaffyMoon]

23. Made me laugh, cause it was inevitable!