Re: Tha Dalai Lama's Goon Squad

On Fri, 30 May 2008 06:16:26 GMT, PaPaPeng <PaPaPeng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Don't know. Its a game the DL plays. China is not in it. Here's
another reader's letter. You should look up the URL and go through
those letters too. They tell a lot about people's emotions on the
subject.


More interesting stuff from people who do go deeper into the subject.
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Dharmapal
Comment No. 1385393
May 29 19:20
USA Here is an interesting article on the subject from a French
senator.

Jean-Luc Mélanchon's Views on Tibet and China
Translated mardi 15 avril 2008, par Isabelle Metral

What follows is the point of view published by the senator on his
blog. As he says :

"I disagree about the boycott of the Beijing Olympics and anti-Chinese
propaganda.I am not a Chinese communist. I never will be. But I
disagree about the demonstrations in support of an Olympics boycott. I
disagree about Robert Ménard's operation against the Beijing Olympic
Games. I disagree about the revision of Chinese history that goes
along with it."

I am proof to that blind enthusiasm for the Dalai Lama and the regime
he embodies. In my eyes, the Olympic boycott is an unjustified,
insulting aggression against the Chinese people. If the Chinese
government had to be called to account, this should have been done at
the time Beijing was elected to play host to the Games ; China should
not have been allowed to apply. It should have been said in China.
What is now going on is an unjustified, gratuitous insult for millions
of Chinese people who wanted the Games and are now actively preparing
them. To me all this agitation is redolent of racism.

A pretext
If a boycott was needed, a consequent, aggressive logic should not
have targeted sport, which brings people from different horizons
together and is propitious to fraternity. Why not target the world of
business and finance ? Naturally, none of today's most respectable
activists proposes or does anything of the kind. If the Chinese
government must be taken to task, why not take the minimal steps that
are normally resorted to between nations ? Has the president of the
Chinese Republic been approached ? (How many protesters bother to know
his name even ?) Has a request been made to him ? If so, exactly what
request ? What was the answer ? Was the prime minister appealed to ?
(Again, how many care to know his name...) Was the Chinese ambassador
to France summoned to the Elysée and has an exchange of views taken
place ? Who cares ?
With a haughtiness that borders on racism, protests are raised against
a government whose leaders go nameless and whose existence is ignored.
There can be only one reason for this, which is that this government
is implicitly looked down upon as being hardly a government at all.
Western haughtiness will not even condescend to call by their names
the leaders of a country of one billion four hundred million people
who are deemed so weak as to be powerless against a simple political
police force. What I sniff here, generally, is the stale smell of the
old colonialists' scorn, when they forcefully imposed the opium trade
upon the Chinese. If the aim is to stand up to China's political
regime, none of the means used can possibly change anything except
public opinion in the west, which has already been totally manipulated
on this issue.

So the recent events in Tibet are a pretext. And the pretext was
entirely fabricated to target TV viewers conditioned by the repetition
of the same pictures over and over again, which are meant to forge
evidence rather than stimulate thought. How come for instance that no
programme outside "arrêt sur image" reported the fact that "events in
Tibet" started with a progrom of Chinese shopkeepers by Tibetans ? In
what other country in the world would similar events go unrepressed ?
Is a Chinese shopkeeper's life worth less than the life of the Tibetan
demonstrator that clubs him to death in the street ? Much of the
friendship shown for Tibetans is a nauseous form of racism against the
Chinese. It feeds on all the repulsive fantasies that ignorance
breeds. That the crack-down was heavy-handed has been attested maybe ?
How is this assessed ?
The only figures that were circulated were those published by "Tibet's
government in exile". Yet the Chinese government itself, if I heard
correctly, announced a number of people killed or wounded which shows
clearly that the Chinese authorities recognized there had been a
serious crisis. In any similar circumstances, one would try to compare
the various existing reports, to understand the logic behind the
succession of events. Otherwise one might as well say that the French
government ordered to have two youngsters pushed into a electric
transformer, the reason being that its attitude to the suburbs was
heavy-handed. No one would dare make such an infamous and stupid
statement. Was not US policy heavy-handed in its repression of
inner-city riots ? Of course that is no excuse at all, but these
comparisons help us take a relative view of these events.

A suspicious personage
I must voice the most express reservations about the political
activities of the man who was the chief organizer of those
anti-Chinese demonstrations, namely Robert Ménard. To-day, you will
see or hear no one else on Tibet and the Olympics. It is said that he
is Reporters Sans Frontières's spokesman. The association has no ot

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