On May 4, 4:30 am, chatnoir <wolfbat3...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Yu wrote:
> > by Floyd Rudmin
>
> > We hear that Tibetans suffer =EF=BF=BDdemographic aggression=EF=BF=BD
an=
d =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!
I'll bet you a glass of Spanish Cava you won't get a straight answer
back on that one! Yu is a notorious CCP propagandist who has even
gone so far as to belligerently and preemptively post attacks on the
Dalai Lama to such benign groups as Bay Area Friends of Tibet!
> 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=BDdemog=
raphic
> > aggression=EF=BF=BD and =EF=BF=BDcultural genocide=EF=BF=BD in Diego
Gar=
cia. 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
ag=
gression. 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
bu=
t 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
Is=
rael=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
i=
s 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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