Hey George, doesn't Tibet deserve Freedom?

[edhopper]

Or are you going to stay silent up to and through the Olympics because China owns your ass.
Just asking.

[pocoloco]

1. and be bombed into democracy?

No thanks

[skooooo]

2. Do they have oil???

No oil, no "freedom."

[Smith_3]

3. no, we don't mess with countries that could actually fight back in a significant way. nt

[Mika]

4. Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Tibet!

Would you like some freedom fries with that?

[Orwellian_Ghost]

5. The Tibetan people do

Tibet itself is just a geographic abstraction. The difference is important.

The Chinese people deserve the same.

As do the American people.

As do the Iraqi people.

Back to the original sentiment.

Once we assess this we find what is going on here has nothing to do with the people.

Be very wary of being manipulated by proganda that serves certain very powerful interests and not the interests of the people.

[edhopper]

7. And how do a people become free

if the "geological area" they live in is oppressed?

[sam sarrha]

6. here is how unFree they are...>>LINK>> Tibet is the most mineral rich country in the world, it is

the size of western Europe..

thee are some graphic discriptions of Genocide in these links.. go to Chinese Media for the Rose collored version

http://www.tibettruth.com/birthcontrol.html this is happening after the brutal Genocide of 1.25 million Born Tibetans

"
...Tibetan women struggle against China's male-dominated state, characterise by deeply held racist convictions that operate a system of apartheid, reducing them to second-class citizenship in their own land.

A commonly used Chinese term describing occupied people
is shung-nu - 'barbarian slave'.

It is within China's notorious population programme that women in Tibet face the most widespread human rights violations. Reports of this programme began emerging from Tibet in the early 1960s. It has resulted in unimaginable suffering for women across Tibet and China. Denied freedom of choice or control over their own bodies, women are forced, through a series of financial penalties, intimidation and other oppressive measures, to submit to population control."...

more..so much more :cry: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=tibetan+brutal+forced+abortions&btnG=Google+Search

[Fredda Weinberg]

8. And we're going to change their centuries old practice how, exactly?

Moral suasion? This is their continent, their neighbors, their civilization. While Europeans were figuring out tableware, the Chinese were perfecting civil service.

Look, I understand the sentiment, but we don't have the right to interfere where we don't understand. If Iraq taught us nothing ... let us learn that.

[sam sarrha]

9. Tibet it has been an independant country since 700 ad, they are not Chinese, you support Genocide.

[Fredda Weinberg]

10. That would be funny, considering my father was the only survivor

of his family. Please, shut up about genocide - you obviously know nothing about it.

As for the Chinese empires - they've been dealing w/the nations around them long before the common era. But you don't address my point: what makes you think we're capable of changing the way 1/4 of the world has organized itself?