2 Responses to “Free Tibet”

1. Jason
   April 8th, 2008 @

   A couple of weeks ago The New Republic aptly pointed out how everyone thought that bringing the Olympics to China would be an important step toward reform. By pointing the spotlight on the country, China would be forced to make improvements.

   TNR, however, noticed that the government of China has been using the Olympics as an excuse to expand their human rights abuse record by expelling the poor and indigent from the cities, inventing phony terrorist threats (from the Dalai Lama), etc.

   One article here:

   Others if you search “china olympics” on the site.

2. Joel Friedlander
   April 8th, 2008 @

   Ah, The New Republic! Now there is a publication that has been wrong on most of the important issues since they tore up Al Gore during the 2000 presidential campaign.

   The Chinese are the most authoritarian people on the Earth. There are about 1.5 billion of them and their government thinks that if any of them had any real freedom they would all rebel and throw the Communists out. Hence, they keep the lid tight on every right that a free society requires, except for the right to make money. This will not work in the long run because people cannot be kept enslaved forever.

   Personal example, not too divergent I hope. Many moons ago I had a friend whose brother in law was 37 years of age and weighed about 400 lbs or thereabouts. He was continually checked by doctors to see that he was healthy and always proved to be Ok. His blood pressure was fine, his glucose was fine, his cholesterol was magnificent, and he had no aches and pains or limitations of action.

   One day he went to sleep and never woke up. Studies afterwards showed that during the night he had a small cardiac glitch, which, in anyone else would not have meant anything, but because of his size, stopped the entire mechanism.

   China is like that fellow; all of the organs seem to be working, but if one thing really goes wrong the entire place could go into a revolution that will make the Terror during the French Revolution seem like a fist fight in grade school during lunch recess. That is the reason why the Communists keep such a tight rein on things.

   It is a tragedy that they can’t see that if they actually let the people have representation, divided up the country into self governing provinces, and made the place a Republic, they would be the strongest country on Earth. As it is, if their economy tanks, or their environment starts killing massive numbers of people, or their markets elsewhere disappear or fall into severe recession or worse, they will have a revolt on their hands. Millions will die in such a revolt with a very uncertain outcome.

   Now, this will not happen because they continually take their statesman and patriots and put them in prison.

   Oh and by the way, Bravo London, Paris, Athens, and San Francisco!

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