Yu wrote:
> by Floyd Rudmin
>
> We hear that Tibetans suffer =EF=BF=BDdemographic aggression=EF=BF=BD
and =
=EF=BF=BDcultural
> genocide=EF=BF=BD. But we do not hear those terms applied to Spanish and
> French policies toward the Basque minority. We do not hear those terms
> applied to the US annexation of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1898.
All the time BUB! And the Native Hawaiians talk about it all the time
without repression or being shot!
And
> Diego Garcia?
Democracy Now talks about it all the time and they are still on the
air!
In 1973, not so long ago, the UK forcibly de****ted the
> entire native Chagossian population from the Indian Ocean island of
> Diego Garcia. People were allowed one suitcase of clothing. Nothing
> else. Family pets were gassed, then cremated. Complete ethnic
> cleansing. Complete cultural destruction. Why? In order to build a big
> US air base. It has been used to bomb Afghanistan and Iraq, and soon
> maybe to bomb Iran and Pakistan. Diego Garcia, with nobody there but
> Brits and Americans, is also a perfect place for rendition, torture
> and other illegal actions.
>
> When the Olympics come to London in 2012, the Dalai Lama and Desmond
> Tutu will certainly lead the demonstrators protesting the
=EF=BF=BDdemogra=
phic
> aggression=EF=BF=BD and =EF=BF=BDcultural genocide=EF=BF=BD in Diego
Garci=
a. The UN Secretary
> General, the President of France, the Chancellor of Germany, the new
> US President and the entire US Congress will certainly boycott the
> opening ceremonies.
>
> The height of hypocrisy is this moral posturing about 100 dead in race
> riots in Lhasa, while the USA, UK and more than 40 nations in the
> Coalition of the Willing wage a war of aggression against Iraq. This
> is not =EF=BF=BDdemographic aggression=EF=BF=BD but raw shock-and-awe
aggr=
ession. A
> war crime. A war on civilians, including the intentional destruction
> of the water and sewage systems, and the electrical grid. More than
> one million Iraqis are now dead; five million made into refugees. The
> Western invaders may not be doing =EF=BF=BDcultural genocide=EF=BF=BD
but =
they are
> doing cultural destruction on an immense scale, in the very cradle of
> Western Civilization. Why is the news filled with demonstrators about
> Tibet but not about Iraq?
Unlike Tibet, there are re****ts on US violations in Iraq by US papers
and they are not shut down =3D nor is anyone arrested!
>
> And as everyone knows but few dare say, =EF=BF=BDdemographic
aggression=EF=
=BF=BD and
> =EF=BF=BDcultural genocide=EF=BF=BD can be applied most accurately to
Isra=
el=EF=BF=BDs
> settlement policies and systematic destruction of Palestinian
> communities. On this, the Dalai Lama seems silent. Demonstrators
don=EF=BF=
=BDt
> wave flags for bulldozed homes, destroyed orchards, or dead
> Palestinian children.
And papers in Israel talk about it all the time without being shut
down!
>
> The Chinese Context
>
> The Chinese government is responsible for the well-being and security
> of one-fourth of humanity. Race riots and rebellion cannot be
> tolerated, not even when done by Buddhist monks.
So, freedom can't be tolerated in China - that is the statement of a
fascist governing authority!
>
> Chinese Civilization was already old when the Egyptians began building
> pyramids. But the last 200 years have not gone well, what with two
> Opium Wars forcing China to im****t drugs, and Europeans seizing
> coastal ****ts as a step to complete colonial control, then the Boxer
> Rebellion, the collapse of the Manchu Dynasty, civil war, a brutal
> invasion and occupation by Japan, more civil war, then Communist
> consolidation and transformation of society, then Mao=EF=BF=BDs Cultural
> Revolution. Such events caused tens of millions of people to die.
> Thus, China=EF=BF=BDs recent history has good reasons why social order
is =
a
> higher priority than individual rights. Race riots and rebellion
> cannot be tolerated.
A statement any fascist authority in any country can make - what was
Germany's? =3D Oh yes, we lost a war!
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