Tres;

I’ve seen it with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears.  I’ve actually been there.  And there’s enough refugee stories to fill volumes.  I’ve seen refugees whose limbs were lost to frostbite, escaped political prisoners whose scars around their wrists and in their souls will never go away, nuns who’ve been raped with electric cattle prods.  The list goes on. 

But why bother.  Sitting from a comfortable distance, you’ve clearly made up your mind. 

And yes, I’ve read Parenti’s article.  Tibetans, like all peoples, have troubles in their past that today they work to overcome.  But they are Tibetan issues, not ours.  As Gandhi once said to the British viceroy of India, “Yes, we will have problems.  But they will be our problems.  Not yours.”

Like you, I am not blind to the corruptions of the past.  But here is where we differ: by no means am I blind to the circumstances of today.

And please - if you’ve got it - provide details on the Dalai Lama’s current terrorist activities, only be sure that you are not referencing Chinese government propaganda.

Thanks for the Penn and Teller link. Hilarious.
I just don’t get how seemingly intelligent people can become awestruck and/or find time in their busy schedules to meet with people in colorful robes. Truly, we are not a successful species…

Jeff,

Your wife did not live in the past, and she does not know what it was like if she had born under Dalai Lama’s. She would be a Serf, and happy. Please read Michael Parenti’s in-depth reporting on this subjects. This is suppose to be truth dig. Let the truth speaks for itself. And how about going there yourself and see in your own eyes.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7355

Dalai Lama is a former slave owner, a leader of the group used CIA funding committed violence and caused thousands of death. He is now saying he denounces violence, but the group he controls is still actively undermining stability of the region. If he is doing this against the U.S., he could be declared a terrorist and hunted down like Osama Bin Laden.

Obamoronic! Barack’s chiding the third most prominent proponent of non-
violence (against the Tibetan GENOCIDE and CULTURECIDE) for over 30 YEARS to
avoid violence TODAY (AS IF!) is simply JEJUNE!

Excuse me, Commune115;

My wife is a survivor of a Chinese gulag.  She fled Tibet looking for an education- something she was denied in her own country.  She couldn’t care less about abstract words like ‘feudal’ and ‘theocracy’ but she definitely understands ‘occupation’ in a way that you and I probably never will.

Please save your cynicism for some harmless topic.

Let’s not forget, like the Pope, the Dali Lama is a Divine Rule Head of State.  I continually wonder at my US born friends that practice Tibetan Buddhism, some of them left the Roman Catholic Church because the Divine Rule of the Pope.  Seems to me, they just replace one Pope for another.

One of the best pieces on the Dalai Lama was done by Penn and Teller. They show
what he has done in the past… Like taking money from the CIA.. Training covert
Tibetan guerrillas in colorado…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYEOSCIOnrs
Warning to all you kids, Penn likes to cuss.