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EveryOne Group (http://www.everyonegroup.com) is promoting a petition (http://www.petitiononline.com/fortibet) and an international campaign to ask for an immediate halt to the harsh sociocultural repression underway in Tibet, a repression perpetrated by the Chinese authorities towards thousands of innocent people.
Boycott Campaign of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and sporting and cultural events in the People’s Republic of China
Sign the petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/fortibet and spread it as more as possible
EveryOne Group (http://www.everyonegroup.com) is promoting a petition (http://www.petitiononline.com/fortibet) and an international campaign to ask for an immediate halt to the harsh sociocultural repression underway in Tibet, a repression perpetrated by the Chinese authorities towards thousands of innocent people.
The leaders of EveryOne, the authorities and people of goodwill who sign the petition below are promoting the Boycott Campaign of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and sporting and cultural events in the People’s Republic of China. They will also be supporting the “Beijing 2008 Gold Medals for Human Rights” campaign, with gold medals coined by EveryOne Group being awarded to all the athletes who decide not to take part in the Olympic Games out of solidarity with the people of Tibet.
One of the most serious human rights emergencies is taking place in Tibet, a country situated north of the Himalayas, covering an area of 2,5 million square kilometres: more than eight times the size of Italy. The Tibetan population numbers about 6.5 million inhabitants, compared to the 7.5 million colonists gradually introduced into the country by the Chinese Government over the years. Tibet had been free and independent for centuries; its right to independence is documented by three resolutions approved by the United Nations in 1959, 1961 and 1965. Following the invasion by the Chinese Army – between 1949 and 1950 – and its ruthless repressive politics, over two thousand years of Tibetan history and culture are in serious danger of being destroyed. Let us remember that during the occupation, and after the annexation, numerous barbarous acts have been carried out by over 40,000 invasion troops who already in the period of 1950-1980 murdered over two million Tibetans and destroyed an incomparable patrimony of humanity: over six thousand temples and incalculable number of works of art. Thousands of dissidents, intellectuals, religious men (guilty of not accepting this persecution) have been imprisoned; language, religion and cultural traditions are being denied; the environment, of breathtaking beauty before the invasion, has been subjected to deforestation and sacking of resources, actions that have led to an ecological catastrophe and the progressive impoverishment of the country. Since 1959 the Dalai Lama has lived in exile. In the meantime his country has been reduced to conditions of extreme hardship: the Tibetans’ standard of living is one of the lowest in the world, while the introduction of Chinese colonists is turning the Tibetans into an even smaller minority year by year. Today the drama foreseen in 1931 by the 13th Dalai Lama (the predecessor of the present one) has finally taken place:
“We have to be ready to defend ourselves or our spiritual and cultural traditions will be destroyed, the names of the Dalai and Panchen Lamas will be cancelled out, our monasteries will be looted and reduced to rubble, the monks and nuns will be murdered or kicked out. If we do not protect our people, we will become slaves of our torturers, forced to wander around like beggars, without hope.”
Since March 13th, 2008 Tibet has been witnessing the protest of its people against the persecutory politics of the Chinese Government. The Chinese authorities have reacted with even more severity than in the past. Many monks have been arrested, while the police, firing into the crowd of demonstrators has caused a hundred or so victims so far. A situation the Tibetan government in exile has documented and the Chinese Government has tried to conceal, declaring that only thirteen people have been killed while defining them “troublemakers” and “criminals”. History teaches us that the propaganda of persecutory regimes has always initiated campaigns directed at criminalizing the victims according to a precise strategy, a strategy finalized at justifying violations and forms of destruction: the European colonists towards the Native Americans, the Nazis towards the Jews and the other minorities they targeted. The persecution being carried out by several European states towards the gypsy people (which is taking place among the indifference of the rest of the world) makes use of the same kind of propaganda: “Zero tolerance against a nation of criminals”. The exact same words used by Qin Gang, the spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Office in response to an appeal in support of Tibet by Pope Benedict XVI. On March 18th, 2008 Wen Jiabao, the Chinese Prime Minister, to prevent possible boycotting campaigns from the Dalai Lama laid on him the blame for the Tibetan victims killed by Chinese authorities, accusing him of “inciting a boycott of the Olympic Games in Beijing in August of this year”.
This is why the Dalai Lama is avoiding talking of the possibility of saying NO to the Bejing Olympics: he does not want further bloodshed. At the same time though, from his exile in Dharamsala (India) he has cried out to the free world for help: “The repression is getting worse, leading to terrible and frightening violations of human rights. At the same time religious freedom is being denied and spiritual matters are being politicized.”
In the meantime the monks, intellectuals and leaders in exile have started a protest march from India to Tibet, asking for an end to the bloody Chinese occupation, and asking that all countries and human beings who believe in the necessity to safeguard human rights to boycott the next Olympic Games in Beijing. The international community seems frightened by the idea of a boycott, due to the huge economic and political interests revolving around the Games.
Showing ourselves to be cowardly and indifferent to a tragedy of such huge proportions, however, would be the greatest mistake and it would make us all accomplices of the bullies who are constantly perpetrating violations of people’s fundamental rights, which contrast with civil coexistence and with the principals of liberty and dignity that all human beings are entitled to. The Olympic Games have always represented a moment of celebration of the brotherhood between peoples (historically all conflicts were suspended while the Games were underway). What is more, the Games are an occasion for reaffirming the universal value of human rights and for preventing the violation of democratic rights. The Chinese Government is failing to respect all of this.
After the shocking events in Burma (where hundreds of Buddhist monks who were demonstrating peacefully were massacred) even more serious episodes are taking place in Tibet and the oppressors are not being reached by clear warnings from determined and influential voices that will induce them to change their attitude and walk along the path of respect for human rights.
Up to now the recommendations from human rights groups and international political parties have gone unheeded, as unfortunately was the appeal from the Dalai Lama to the Chinese authorities - in which he asked them to abandon the use of force in repressing the peaceful and democratic protests of the Tibetan people. Fear and indifference, on the other hand, weakens his voice that invites them to seek the path of peace and respect for peoples.
EveryOne Group invites nations, sports federations, individual athletes, sports journalists, and sports fans to reflect carefully on the result of ignoring the suffering and losses of the Tibetan people and celebrating the Olympic Games as usual. What value would the athletes’ feats have? What would the national anthems sound like? What light would the medals reflect?
We are reminded of the 1936 Olympic Games: the choice fell upon Berlin, a controversial choice seeing Germany was about to enter the Hitler period. The Games became just an excuse for demonstrating Germany’s supremacy to the whole world: new monumental building projects (among which the splendid Olympic Village) and a German team which trained scrupulously for months in the Black Forest, from where it emerged in top form after strict training. There were no lack of protests against Hitler’s Games, nor lack of contradictions: the United States threatened, through Roosevelt, to boycott the games but it all came to nothing.
Roosevelt sent an envoy to Germany to check out the real situation, but it was Avery Brundage who crossed the ocean, the future president of the International Olympic Committee with ultra-conservative and racist leanings. His report was therefore a positive one and the United States decided to take part in the Games. Even Hitler cleaned up his act a little: in the German team he included a handful of Jewish athletes; all this while the anti-Jewish laws were already in force. Therefore, among a display of swastikas, on August 1st, 1926, the German middle-distance runner, Erik Schilgen lit the Olympic torch with the torch that had been carried by 3000 torch-bearers from Athens. A
few years later, to choose a significant example, all the Jewish players of Ajax, the football team of the Amsterdam ghetto founded by the brothers Han and Johan Dade, were deported to the Nazi concentration camps amidst the indifference, mixed with dismay, of the international community.
We will not allow the same thing to happen with the People’s Republic of China.
China cannot represent the Olympic spirit of brotherhood and friendship, the way it cannot host art and cultural events that are messengers of solidarity. EveryOne Group is asking all athletes, Italian and international, who have planned to take part in the Beijing Olympics to boycott their participation there. But this itself is not enough, because for a boycott to be effective towards a government whose arrogance and abuse of power seems to be without limits, it must include all sporting, cultural and theatrical events, and all venues. EveryOne Group (but also influential figures of contemporary culture, like that of the French philosopher Bernard Henry-Levy) are asking the athletes not to show their talent on the soil of a country that does not recognise human rights; it is asking all the artists who have tours, concerts and shows planned in China to cancel them: the concerts must be stopped until the Tibetan trumpets are allowed to sound out again in liberty and peace; the performances must stop for as long as we can hear the cries of the thousands of innocent people demonstrating peacefully, people who are being forcibly repressed, arrested, humiliated and killed by the Chinese soldiers.
EveryOne Group points out that boycotting is a form of action in support of human rights that has obtained important results right from the late 19th Century. Its effectiveness is indisputable because is it based on the same principles that have made coming out on strike a fundamental tool for the workers’ cause throughout the world. Boycotting is a non-violent action, aimed at isolating the entity that violates human rights and interrupting any form of collaboration with it. One of the most significant victories obtained through boycotting was the abolition of apartheid in South Africa. To those who claim that the 2008 Olympic Games will bring benefits to all the Chinese people and visibility to Tibetan dissidents, we reply that the Games, if held according to plan, will only result in strengthening the present regime, penalizing the persecuted minorities even more. At the same time the news reaching the media and international observers will be carefully filtered by government propaganda. A boycott, on the other hand, is a clear response to the voice of prevarication: “There is no price for the freedom of a people; there is no price for innocent blood”.
The leaders of EveryOne Group, the authorities and people of goodwill who support the Petition and the Boycotting Campaign of the 2008 Olympic Games (as well as sporting and cultural events in China) will also be supporting “Beijing 2008. Gold Medal for Human Rights”, with gold medals (coined by the Group in gold-coloured metal) awarded to all the athletes who decide not to take part in the Olympic Games or other sporting events out of solidarity with the people of Tibet. The medals will also be awarded to journalists, intellectuals and artists who sign the petition and take part in the campaign by boycotting cultural and theatrical events with the government of the oppressors.
Sign Now:
http://www.petitiononline.com/fortibet
For EveryOne Group: Roberto Malini, Matteo Pegoraro, Dario Picciau, Glenys Robinson and 20 other members
If you need more information and updates, you can contact EveryOne Group at:
info [at] everyoneroup.com
http://www.everyonegroup.com
Tel: +39 334 8429527 - Fax: +39 055 0518897
Sign the petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/fortibet and spread it as more as possible
EveryOne Group (http://www.everyonegroup.com) is promoting a petition (http://www.petitiononline.com/fortibet) and an international campaign to ask for an immediate halt to the harsh sociocultural repression underway in Tibet, a repression perpetrated by the Chinese authorities towards thousands of innocent people.
The leaders of EveryOne, the authorities and people of goodwill who sign the petition below are promoting the Boycott Campaign of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and sporting and cultural events in the People’s Republic of China. They will also be supporting the “Beijing 2008 Gold Medals for Human Rights” campaign, with gold medals coined by EveryOne Group being awarded to all the athletes who decide not to take part in the Olympic Games out of solidarity with the people of Tibet.
One of the most serious human rights emergencies is taking place in Tibet, a country situated north of the Himalayas, covering an area of 2,5 million square kilometres: more than eight times the size of Italy. The Tibetan population numbers about 6.5 million inhabitants, compared to the 7.5 million colonists gradually introduced into the country by the Chinese Government over the years. Tibet had been free and independent for centuries; its right to independence is documented by three resolutions approved by the United Nations in 1959, 1961 and 1965. Following the invasion by the Chinese Army – between 1949 and 1950 – and its ruthless repressive politics, over two thousand years of Tibetan history and culture are in serious danger of being destroyed. Let us remember that during the occupation, and after the annexation, numerous barbarous acts have been carried out by over 40,000 invasion troops who already in the period of 1950-1980 murdered over two million Tibetans and destroyed an incomparable patrimony of humanity: over six thousand temples and incalculable number of works of art. Thousands of dissidents, intellectuals, religious men (guilty of not accepting this persecution) have been imprisoned; language, religion and cultural traditions are being denied; the environment, of breathtaking beauty before the invasion, has been subjected to deforestation and sacking of resources, actions that have led to an ecological catastrophe and the progressive impoverishment of the country. Since 1959 the Dalai Lama has lived in exile. In the meantime his country has been reduced to conditions of extreme hardship: the Tibetans’ standard of living is one of the lowest in the world, while the introduction of Chinese colonists is turning the Tibetans into an even smaller minority year by year. Today the drama foreseen in 1931 by the 13th Dalai Lama (the predecessor of the present one) has finally taken place:
“We have to be ready to defend ourselves or our spiritual and cultural traditions will be destroyed, the names of the Dalai and Panchen Lamas will be cancelled out, our monasteries will be looted and reduced to rubble, the monks and nuns will be murdered or kicked out. If we do not protect our people, we will become slaves of our torturers, forced to wander around like beggars, without hope.”
Since March 13th, 2008 Tibet has been witnessing the protest of its people against the persecutory politics of the Chinese Government. The Chinese authorities have reacted with even more severity than in the past. Many monks have been arrested, while the police, firing into the crowd of demonstrators has caused a hundred or so victims so far. A situation the Tibetan government in exile has documented and the Chinese Government has tried to conceal, declaring that only thirteen people have been killed while defining them “troublemakers” and “criminals”. History teaches us that the propaganda of persecutory regimes has always initiated campaigns directed at criminalizing the victims according to a precise strategy, a strategy finalized at justifying violations and forms of destruction: the European colonists towards the Native Americans, the Nazis towards the Jews and the other minorities they targeted. The persecution being carried out by several European states towards the gypsy people (which is taking place among the indifference of the rest of the world) makes use of the same kind of propaganda: “Zero tolerance against a nation of criminals”. The exact same words used by Qin Gang, the spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Office in response to an appeal in support of Tibet by Pope Benedict XVI. On March 18th, 2008 Wen Jiabao, the Chinese Prime Minister, to prevent possible boycotting campaigns from the Dalai Lama laid on him the blame for the Tibetan victims killed by Chinese authorities, accusing him of “inciting a boycott of the Olympic Games in Beijing in August of this year”.
This is why the Dalai Lama is avoiding talking of the possibility of saying NO to the Bejing Olympics: he does not want further bloodshed. At the same time though, from his exile in Dharamsala (India) he has cried out to the free world for help: “The repression is getting worse, leading to terrible and frightening violations of human rights. At the same time religious freedom is being denied and spiritual matters are being politicized.”
In the meantime the monks, intellectuals and leaders in exile have started a protest march from India to Tibet, asking for an end to the bloody Chinese occupation, and asking that all countries and human beings who believe in the necessity to safeguard human rights to boycott the next Olympic Games in Beijing. The international community seems frightened by the idea of a boycott, due to the huge economic and political interests revolving around the Games.
Showing ourselves to be cowardly and indifferent to a tragedy of such huge proportions, however, would be the greatest mistake and it would make us all accomplices of the bullies who are constantly perpetrating violations of people’s fundamental rights, which contrast with civil coexistence and with the principals of liberty and dignity that all human beings are entitled to. The Olympic Games have always represented a moment of celebration of the brotherhood between peoples (historically all conflicts were suspended while the Games were underway). What is more, the Games are an occasion for reaffirming the universal value of human rights and for preventing the violation of democratic rights. The Chinese Government is failing to respect all of this.
After the shocking events in Burma (where hundreds of Buddhist monks who were demonstrating peacefully were massacred) even more serious episodes are taking place in Tibet and the oppressors are not being reached by clear warnings from determined and influential voices that will induce them to change their attitude and walk along the path of respect for human rights.
Up to now the recommendations from human rights groups and international political parties have gone unheeded, as unfortunately was the appeal from the Dalai Lama to the Chinese authorities - in which he asked them to abandon the use of force in repressing the peaceful and democratic protests of the Tibetan people. Fear and indifference, on the other hand, weakens his voice that invites them to seek the path of peace and respect for peoples.
EveryOne Group invites nations, sports federations, individual athletes, sports journalists, and sports fans to reflect carefully on the result of ignoring the suffering and losses of the Tibetan people and celebrating the Olympic Games as usual. What value would the athletes’ feats have? What would the national anthems sound like? What light would the medals reflect?
We are reminded of the 1936 Olympic Games: the choice fell upon Berlin, a controversial choice seeing Germany was about to enter the Hitler period. The Games became just an excuse for demonstrating Germany’s supremacy to the whole world: new monumental building projects (among which the splendid Olympic Village) and a German team which trained scrupulously for months in the Black Forest, from where it emerged in top form after strict training. There were no lack of protests against Hitler’s Games, nor lack of contradictions: the United States threatened, through Roosevelt, to boycott the games but it all came to nothing.
Roosevelt sent an envoy to Germany to check out the real situation, but it was Avery Brundage who crossed the ocean, the future president of the International Olympic Committee with ultra-conservative and racist leanings. His report was therefore a positive one and the United States decided to take part in the Games. Even Hitler cleaned up his act a little: in the German team he included a handful of Jewish athletes; all this while the anti-Jewish laws were already in force. Therefore, among a display of swastikas, on August 1st, 1926, the German middle-distance runner, Erik Schilgen lit the Olympic torch with the torch that had been carried by 3000 torch-bearers from Athens. A
few years later, to choose a significant example, all the Jewish players of Ajax, the football team of the Amsterdam ghetto founded by the brothers Han and Johan Dade, were deported to the Nazi concentration camps amidst the indifference, mixed with dismay, of the international community.
We will not allow the same thing to happen with the People’s Republic of China.
China cannot represent the Olympic spirit of brotherhood and friendship, the way it cannot host art and cultural events that are messengers of solidarity. EveryOne Group is asking all athletes, Italian and international, who have planned to take part in the Beijing Olympics to boycott their participation there. But this itself is not enough, because for a boycott to be effective towards a government whose arrogance and abuse of power seems to be without limits, it must include all sporting, cultural and theatrical events, and all venues. EveryOne Group (but also influential figures of contemporary culture, like that of the French philosopher Bernard Henry-Levy) are asking the athletes not to show their talent on the soil of a country that does not recognise human rights; it is asking all the artists who have tours, concerts and shows planned in China to cancel them: the concerts must be stopped until the Tibetan trumpets are allowed to sound out again in liberty and peace; the performances must stop for as long as we can hear the cries of the thousands of innocent people demonstrating peacefully, people who are being forcibly repressed, arrested, humiliated and killed by the Chinese soldiers.
EveryOne Group points out that boycotting is a form of action in support of human rights that has obtained important results right from the late 19th Century. Its effectiveness is indisputable because is it based on the same principles that have made coming out on strike a fundamental tool for the workers’ cause throughout the world. Boycotting is a non-violent action, aimed at isolating the entity that violates human rights and interrupting any form of collaboration with it. One of the most significant victories obtained through boycotting was the abolition of apartheid in South Africa. To those who claim that the 2008 Olympic Games will bring benefits to all the Chinese people and visibility to Tibetan dissidents, we reply that the Games, if held according to plan, will only result in strengthening the present regime, penalizing the persecuted minorities even more. At the same time the news reaching the media and international observers will be carefully filtered by government propaganda. A boycott, on the other hand, is a clear response to the voice of prevarication: “There is no price for the freedom of a people; there is no price for innocent blood”.
The leaders of EveryOne Group, the authorities and people of goodwill who support the Petition and the Boycotting Campaign of the 2008 Olympic Games (as well as sporting and cultural events in China) will also be supporting “Beijing 2008. Gold Medal for Human Rights”, with gold medals (coined by the Group in gold-coloured metal) awarded to all the athletes who decide not to take part in the Olympic Games or other sporting events out of solidarity with the people of Tibet. The medals will also be awarded to journalists, intellectuals and artists who sign the petition and take part in the campaign by boycotting cultural and theatrical events with the government of the oppressors.
Sign Now:
http://www.petitiononline.com/fortibet
For EveryOne Group: Roberto Malini, Matteo Pegoraro, Dario Picciau, Glenys Robinson and 20 other members
If you need more information and updates, you can contact EveryOne Group at:
info [at] everyoneroup.com
http://www.everyonegroup.com
Tel: +39 334 8429527 - Fax: +39 055 0518897
For more information:
http://www.everyonegroup.com
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“China is just like a rising stock. Manipulators attack it before it becomes too expensive to get in. This is a common trick in stock market these days. Same as Dalai Lama, he knows that his chance to get back to Tibet will be becoming zero if he does not take the advantage of Beijing Olympic Game”
Mr.Eirik Granqvist " His possibilities to act against China will be diminished .Therefore he (Dalai Lama) undertook recently an around the world diplomatic travel since he has seen the possibility of harming the now good international image of China and provoking boycotts of the Olympic games in Beijing".
Mr.Eirik Granqvist " His possibilities to act against China will be diminished .Therefore he (Dalai Lama) undertook recently an around the world diplomatic travel since he has seen the possibility of harming the now good international image of China and provoking boycotts of the Olympic games in Beijing".
You need to get the facts straight before automatically decrying everything China does.
All eyewitnesses, Chinese or western, in Tibet at the time of the riot, reported the Tibet gangs comitting violent acts of killing, burning, looting against Han Chinese. Yet, the police stood very restrained at the beginning. Only after seeing atrocities by the criminals, did police try to restore order. Which government would not enforce the law? The Chinese government should be commended for the restraint they have shown.
Boycotting the Olympics, which belongs to the international community, would be to give in to the violent Tibet clique hodling the Olympics hostage.
All eyewitnesses, Chinese or western, in Tibet at the time of the riot, reported the Tibet gangs comitting violent acts of killing, burning, looting against Han Chinese. Yet, the police stood very restrained at the beginning. Only after seeing atrocities by the criminals, did police try to restore order. Which government would not enforce the law? The Chinese government should be commended for the restraint they have shown.
Boycotting the Olympics, which belongs to the international community, would be to give in to the violent Tibet clique hodling the Olympics hostage.
It is outrageous that you claim "Tibet has been independent and free for centuries". It is a bold lie.
Tibet has been under the Chinese suzerainty for centuries, as far back as Ming dynasty in written records, if not earlier. As recognition of the fact, Tibet had been offering annual tributes to the Chinese empire all that time.
Look up history if you are ingnorant, or if you know the facts, stop spreading baseless lies.
Tibet has been under the Chinese suzerainty for centuries, as far back as Ming dynasty in written records, if not earlier. As recognition of the fact, Tibet had been offering annual tributes to the Chinese empire all that time.
Look up history if you are ingnorant, or if you know the facts, stop spreading baseless lies.
It is Nazi USA that cannot represent the Olympic spirit, not China, the first Asian country outside the US military base countries of Japan & South Korea to host the Olympics. Here in Nazi USA, we have a prison-punishment-concentration camp system that would make Hitler proud, actively promoting the racist, anti-workingclass death penalty. We also have de facto segregation in the US, and legal segregation before 1964. The death penalty is today's lynching of Afircan-American and Latino workers, a continuation of the lynchings that were promoted by the fascist gangs before 1950. iIn addition to the domestic prison-concentration camp system, we have the horrors of Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, secret prisons and a government promoting torture, illegal imprisonment without charges or trials, all just like NAZI GERMANY. JUST LIKE APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA WAS BANNED FROM INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS INCLUDING THE OLYMPICS, THE UNITED STATES SHOULD BE BANNED FROM THE OLYMPICS AND ALL OTHER INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS.
As to Tibet, TIBET HAS BEEN PART OF CHINA FOR OVER 200 YEARS. Whatever murders that the current pro-capitalist Chinese government committed, IT IS CERTAINLY NO WORSE THAN FASCIST, ROTTEN, BACKWARD NAZI USA. WHERE WAS THE ABOVE WRITER WHEN THE OLYMPICS WERE HELD IN THE US in Los Angeles and Lake Placid in 1932, Squaw Valley (California Sierras) in 1960, Lake Placid in 1980, Los Angeles in 1984, Atlanta in 1996 and Salt Lake City in 2002? Why didn't these hypocrites promoting the above anti-Chinese racism demand that the torch be protested then when it passed through American cities because of AMERICAN HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS WHICH HAVE EXISTED THROUGHOUT AMERICAN HISTORY, STARTING WITH THE GENOCIDE OF NATIVE AMERICANS, THE ENSLAVEMENT OF AFRICANS AND THE VICIOUS EXPLOITATION OF THE LABOR OF ALL NATIONALITIES?
The Dalai Lama is a CIA agent who supports the war in Iraq, is anti-gay and has a history of promoting serfdom. Life in Tibet before the 1949 socialist revolution in China was a horrifing scene of clerical serfdom.
More on this may be found in the book, The Making of Modern Tibet by A. Tom Grunfeld (1996) New York: M.E. Sharpe Inc, and in the excellent article by William Blum in Counterpunch at:
http://www.counterpunch.org/blum03292008.html
Ordinarily, I do not care about the torch or have much interest in the Olympics. But since we have this CIA promotion of boycotting the Olympics and terrorizing the carriers of the torch around the world, I can hardly wait to cheer the Olympic torch and watch the Olympics on TV, and I usually do not watch TV. THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY AND CONTRARY TO THE DALAI LAMA-CIA GANG, THIS IS NOT AN AMERICAN CENTURY; AMERICAN IMPERIALISM IS SOON OFF THE STAGE OF HISTORY. This anti-Chinese racism, in a town that has a horrific history of anti-Chinese racism before WW2, is despicable. In California, it was illegal for whites to marry Asians before 1948. The anti-Chinese riots in San Francisco and barring Chinese children from San Francisco public schools at the beginning of the 20th Century were crimes against humanity. IT IS LONG OVERDUE THAT NAZI USA BE BANNED FROM THE OLYMPICS UNTIL THE HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES LISTED ABOVE END. Until then, I will cheer when Anybody but Americans (ABA) win the medals and I will cheer the Olympic torch in San Francisco.
As to Tibet, TIBET HAS BEEN PART OF CHINA FOR OVER 200 YEARS. Whatever murders that the current pro-capitalist Chinese government committed, IT IS CERTAINLY NO WORSE THAN FASCIST, ROTTEN, BACKWARD NAZI USA. WHERE WAS THE ABOVE WRITER WHEN THE OLYMPICS WERE HELD IN THE US in Los Angeles and Lake Placid in 1932, Squaw Valley (California Sierras) in 1960, Lake Placid in 1980, Los Angeles in 1984, Atlanta in 1996 and Salt Lake City in 2002? Why didn't these hypocrites promoting the above anti-Chinese racism demand that the torch be protested then when it passed through American cities because of AMERICAN HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS WHICH HAVE EXISTED THROUGHOUT AMERICAN HISTORY, STARTING WITH THE GENOCIDE OF NATIVE AMERICANS, THE ENSLAVEMENT OF AFRICANS AND THE VICIOUS EXPLOITATION OF THE LABOR OF ALL NATIONALITIES?
The Dalai Lama is a CIA agent who supports the war in Iraq, is anti-gay and has a history of promoting serfdom. Life in Tibet before the 1949 socialist revolution in China was a horrifing scene of clerical serfdom.
More on this may be found in the book, The Making of Modern Tibet by A. Tom Grunfeld (1996) New York: M.E. Sharpe Inc, and in the excellent article by William Blum in Counterpunch at:
http://www.counterpunch.org/blum03292008.html
Ordinarily, I do not care about the torch or have much interest in the Olympics. But since we have this CIA promotion of boycotting the Olympics and terrorizing the carriers of the torch around the world, I can hardly wait to cheer the Olympic torch and watch the Olympics on TV, and I usually do not watch TV. THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY AND CONTRARY TO THE DALAI LAMA-CIA GANG, THIS IS NOT AN AMERICAN CENTURY; AMERICAN IMPERIALISM IS SOON OFF THE STAGE OF HISTORY. This anti-Chinese racism, in a town that has a horrific history of anti-Chinese racism before WW2, is despicable. In California, it was illegal for whites to marry Asians before 1948. The anti-Chinese riots in San Francisco and barring Chinese children from San Francisco public schools at the beginning of the 20th Century were crimes against humanity. IT IS LONG OVERDUE THAT NAZI USA BE BANNED FROM THE OLYMPICS UNTIL THE HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES LISTED ABOVE END. Until then, I will cheer when Anybody but Americans (ABA) win the medals and I will cheer the Olympic torch in San Francisco.
For more information:
http://www.counterpunch.org/blum03292008.html
Nobody denied China like other developing countries having lots of problems to be fixed and improved - no country is exception. For those who want to see a better China, boycotting Olympic is a selfish and silly idea, it won't help realizing any idea with good intention, just being taken advantage by those Tibetan separatists (Even Da Lai himself denies he wanted separation). Their violences in Tibet and some countries' Chinese Consulate only signals a dangerous fundementalists' tendency we've seen elsewhere. Those who hates China, I don't see you will get anything as people will see clearly how the hatres backfire eventually, won't do no harm to the country. Hatres are not making this world better!
On the contrary, I started to think about how we should call for objective, neutral media in what I thought highly-civilized society. People always criticize Chinese lack of freedom of speech under CCP's tirrany. Don't mention to what extension you might be wrong, the irresponsible of the reporters from those media I used to admire really surprised me. Their ignorance and arrogance are the reason they became blind and biased. That's why so many readers here became their followers, lost their own capability to judge before some of them even know Tibet's whereabout, its belonging and its history!
On the contrary, I started to think about how we should call for objective, neutral media in what I thought highly-civilized society. People always criticize Chinese lack of freedom of speech under CCP's tirrany. Don't mention to what extension you might be wrong, the irresponsible of the reporters from those media I used to admire really surprised me. Their ignorance and arrogance are the reason they became blind and biased. That's why so many readers here became their followers, lost their own capability to judge before some of them even know Tibet's whereabout, its belonging and its history!
An excellent must-read article on the current crisis in Tibet, who engineered it (that's right, Nazi USA and its CIA puppet, the Dalai Lama and the CIA front, the National Endowment for Democracy are guilty) and the history of Tibet may be found at:
http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8845&news_iv_ctrl=1261
I stand corrected, Tibet has been part of China for 8 centuries!
This is not the first time Nazi USA has tried to completely take over China. It was well understood at the time that the US Wars against Korea (1950-1953) and Vietnam (1954-1975) were an attempt to invade China and put an end to the gains of the 1949 Chinese socialist revolution. Despite the setbacks caused by embracing capitalism since 1986 when the stock market was set up in Shanghai, China is still better for the majority of the people than its almost equally populated neighbor, India, with which it is best compared., thanks to the 1949 revolution I am waiting for the day when the workingclass of the world is strong enough to ban Nazi USA from the Olympics and all other international competitions until American human rights violations are ended, which of course, will take a labor movement in this country strong enough to put an end to the profit motive that is the primary cause of all these human rights violations by Nazi USA. Until then, it is ABA for the Olympic medals and THREE CHEERS FOR THE OLYMPIC TORCH IN SAN FRANCISCO!
http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8845&news_iv_ctrl=1261
I stand corrected, Tibet has been part of China for 8 centuries!
This is not the first time Nazi USA has tried to completely take over China. It was well understood at the time that the US Wars against Korea (1950-1953) and Vietnam (1954-1975) were an attempt to invade China and put an end to the gains of the 1949 Chinese socialist revolution. Despite the setbacks caused by embracing capitalism since 1986 when the stock market was set up in Shanghai, China is still better for the majority of the people than its almost equally populated neighbor, India, with which it is best compared., thanks to the 1949 revolution I am waiting for the day when the workingclass of the world is strong enough to ban Nazi USA from the Olympics and all other international competitions until American human rights violations are ended, which of course, will take a labor movement in this country strong enough to put an end to the profit motive that is the primary cause of all these human rights violations by Nazi USA. Until then, it is ABA for the Olympic medals and THREE CHEERS FOR THE OLYMPIC TORCH IN SAN FRANCISCO!
For more information:
http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?page=News...
although i'm not as radical as the reader above comparing the u.s. to nazi germany... i've felt extremely saddened and angered at the immense anti-chinese media coverage by the western world. for some reason, history shows that no matter what 'the west' does, it does for the "good" of this world - china and it's people has been colonized and carved up/dominated by the west for the longest time and it seems like now that china is finally picking itself up and truly heading towards the right direction, the 'threatened west' is trying to find whatever way to pull china apart - encouraging separatists by supporting a 'broken up' china.
but the person who should be the most ashamed is really the Dalai Lama... after rubbing elbows for years with oprah and hollywood celebs, and writing books and making millions, you'd think he's already milked it for everything already. c'mon, i've never seen a 'peaceworker' who've had as much 'celebrity-level publicity' as the Dalai Lama - if he's so 'zen' and is a true buddist, perhaps he should focus on doing some real GOOD in the world instead of penning another bestseller and going to another cocktail party at Steven Spielberg's house... it's a total joke, not a mention a fraud. i guess he'll realize on his deathbed that he spent most of his life AWAY from his people and instead spent his life hob-nobbing with the rich folks in the 'western world'. Little does he know that at the end of the day, the west doesn't really give a damn about the wellbeing of Asia or Asians in general. If the west had their way, they would rather see a weak and unstable Asia and a strong Europe/N.America. The Dalai Lama shouldn't even call himself ASIAN at this point, just trade in his robe for a cowboy hat -
but the person who should be the most ashamed is really the Dalai Lama... after rubbing elbows for years with oprah and hollywood celebs, and writing books and making millions, you'd think he's already milked it for everything already. c'mon, i've never seen a 'peaceworker' who've had as much 'celebrity-level publicity' as the Dalai Lama - if he's so 'zen' and is a true buddist, perhaps he should focus on doing some real GOOD in the world instead of penning another bestseller and going to another cocktail party at Steven Spielberg's house... it's a total joke, not a mention a fraud. i guess he'll realize on his deathbed that he spent most of his life AWAY from his people and instead spent his life hob-nobbing with the rich folks in the 'western world'. Little does he know that at the end of the day, the west doesn't really give a damn about the wellbeing of Asia or Asians in general. If the west had their way, they would rather see a weak and unstable Asia and a strong Europe/N.America. The Dalai Lama shouldn't even call himself ASIAN at this point, just trade in his robe for a cowboy hat -
I am reposting a comment written by someone from US who is currently living in Chengdu, China
"Inaccurate reports
As a University alumnus living in the city of Chengdu, one province over from Tibet, I was disappointed to read Amelia Meyer's column ("A gold medal of an opportunity," March 28). Presumably drawing on inaccurate media reports, she takes the default American position that the Chinese government is evil and the Tibetans are an oppressed minority who must be independent. In reality, the Chinese government does some good things, and on the other side, the Lhasa riots show that Tibetan society has some dark, uncivilized aspects.
Reports from foreign citizens who were actually in Lhasa at the time of the recent riots confirm the Chinese government's story that the Tibetan mobs were out of control, destroying private property and committing brutal murders. Does Meyer think the Chinese government should have let the violence continue? If she is searching for a reason to boycott the Olympics, she should choose a better one, such as censorship of the press or the restrictions placed on all religions. A legitimate, bloodless police action to keep the peace in Tibet does not warrant her condemnation.
William Barratt
CLAS '07
"
For more information:
http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle_pri...
We need fair media, not only from one side
Olympics is just one of many athletic games! How can this game match with HUMAN RIGHTS? How can we support a dictatorial regime that suppresses human rights in CHINA!
How can we support an EVIL regime that has killed so many people?
Human Right First, Olympics Second! <--- This is a slogan chanted by the people in China!
One World One Dream Free Tibet!
Boycott the Olympics and Save the Monks in Burma!
Boycott the Genocide Games, Save Darfur!
Boycott the Olympics, Boycott the K9 Killers!
Boycott the Olympics, Human Right for North Koreans!
How can we support an EVIL regime that has killed so many people?
Human Right First, Olympics Second! <--- This is a slogan chanted by the people in China!
One World One Dream Free Tibet!
Boycott the Olympics and Save the Monks in Burma!
Boycott the Genocide Games, Save Darfur!
Boycott the Olympics, Boycott the K9 Killers!
Boycott the Olympics, Human Right for North Koreans!
For more information:
http://noolympics.blogspot.com
This whole 'boycott beijing' business is disgusting. Find a better soapbox - this one only serves to hurt the kids who have trained their entire LIVES for a shot at the olympics.
how many times are athletes able to attend olympic games
in thier lifetime? Please don't use olympic game as
a tool. Please think of something else. Please!!!
in thier lifetime? Please don't use olympic game as
a tool. Please think of something else. Please!!!
The Fusillade Against China by Gregory
Gregory Clark Tue, Apr 1, 08 at 02:47 PM
(Gregory Clark was formerly China desk officer in the Australian Department of External Affairs, and is now vice president of Akita International University. A Japanese translation of this article will appear on: http://www.gregoryclark.net.)
In some ways China is not my favorite country. I once went to some trouble to learn its language. I have often had to court rightwing hostility for trying to explain its foreign policies in less than demonic terms. Back in 1971 I even organized, single-handedly and over Canberra's opposition, an Australian team to join in Beijing's Ping-Pong diplomacy. (Canberra in those days saw Beijing as evil incarnate, and its efforts to open up to the world via Ping-Pong team matches as a plot to take us all over.) Yet, on my first day in China accompanying the team I had organized with such effort, I was almost expelled for trying to rescue an Australian journalist in trouble with the Red Guards. A few weeks later I was to receive a formal reprimand from the Chinese Foreign Ministry for trying to help more mistake-prone Australian journalists in trouble. This, together with some articles I wrote showing less than complete enthusiasm for China's disastrous Cultural Revolution, put me in Beijing's bad books for quite some time. Others who slavishly praised China at the time were warmly welcomed. But while it is easy to be annoyed by China's hard-nosed realpolitik in choosing friends, it is hard also not to be annoyed by the continual anti-China carping in the West. Here is a nation that has begun to lift one quarter of the world's population out of poverty to close to middle-class prosperity in a generation. Yet we are supposed to be upset by suspect paint on some toys ordered to the specifications of a U.S. importer, plus a few other imperfections in the torrent of quality goods helping rescue our Western economies from inflation and improve our own middle-class existences. China is accused of air pollution and gobbling up world energy resources. But when it dams the Yangtse River to produce over 22,000 megawatts of clean energy in an engineering feat that no Western nation can even begin to match, the Western media complain about the unforeseen erosion of mountain slopes upstream forcing villagers to be evacuated. So it would have been better not to build the dam, force China to continue to rely on pollution-intense, coal-based energy, and go back to the days when tens of thousands died from flooding in the Yangtse's heavily populated lower reaches? Somehow the recent opening of the remarkable 1,142-km, 5,000-meter-high railway line into Tibet is also sinful because it opens Tibet to Han Chinese influence. So it would be better to keep Tibetans in backward isolation forever? The Han Chinese are supposed to be guilty of creeping genocide in Tibet. But since Beijing allows Tibetans, like other minorities, to have as many children as they want while Han Chinese are restricted to only one child, it seems we need a new definition of genocide. China, it seems, is also guilty for failing to protest atrocities the West condemns in Sudan's Darfur and in Myanmar. Maybe it sees hypocrisy in the way the West not just fails to protest similar atrocities elsewhere, but actually helps to create them, as in Iraq, Somalia or Afghanistan. U.S. free-fire zones in Vietnam forcing villagers to live in underground tunnels for years make Darfur's Janjaweed killers look like a bunch of amateurs. Maybe we would all be better off if we stopped telling other nations what to do and concentrated on our own affairs, as China does. But the main complaint is that China is not a democracy. Has anyone thought what would happen if China was a democracy? The first victim would be the unpopular one-child policy, which threatens to cause serious problems for the nation in the future - rapid population aging, a male-female population imbalance, the weakening of family values. Yet, without that policy, the global pollution and resource shortage problems we all face would be far worse. In a sense the Chinese are making sacrifices for our sakes. But they get little thanks. Even the one-child policy is denounced as evil authoritarianism. Today few criticize Singapore, or Japan for that matter, both of whom chose one-party autocracy during their early growth periods. China's blend of local democracy with reasonably responsible collective leadership from the top could well be a model for many other struggling societies. Singapore's continuing one-party rule suggests that even advanced Chinese culture societies could prefer Confucian-style benign autocracy to Western-style democracy. Democracy is supposed to be about freedom of choice. But our moralists complain when a nation makes a choice they do not like. Even more annoying is the way the distorted products of myth-making are constantly dragged out to slam Beijing, as with the Tiananmen "massacre" of 1989? Just read the freely available reports from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing at the time to get the true story. China attacked India in 1962? Read what the historians have long said: namely, that it was India that attacked China and China retaliated. China wants to take over Taiwan? Almost the entire world now formally recognizes Taiwan to be part of China. China crushed Tibetan independence in 1959? But no one, the previous anticommunist Chinese regime especially, has ever recognized Tibet as independent. And we now know that the CIA and India were deeply involved in fomenting the 1959 uprising that China felt it had to crush. True, Chinese leaders have been far from angelic. They have yet to explain their largely unprovoked 1979 attack on Vietnam. Their mishandling of domestic policies led directly to the Tiananmen incident of 1989, and the many other localized riots that continue to occur. But post-Maoist Beijing has been trying hard to reform itself. It deserves more encouragement, less brickbats. Recent criticisms of China seem aimed to neutralize the kudos Beijing hopes its 2008 Olympics will bring. For some reason the British have long been the most diligent. As proof of Beijing's continuing authoritarianism the BBC recently went to some lengths to show a young reporter speaking execrable Chinese being refused entry to the closely guarded Chinese leadership housing and office compound in Beijing. Perhaps the guards remembered what happened the last time the British arrived there - the looting of invaluable treasures while crushing the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. London orchestrated much of the anti-China black information campaigns during Vietnam War days. It has used the Tiananmen myth to persuade the European Union to continue its ban on weapons sales to China. Its former governor in Hong Kong, Christopher Patten, was openly contemptuous of the Chinese regime. Coming from the nation that launched the two Opium Wars of the mid-19th century - wars that were to lead directly to many of China's later troubles, including the loss of Hong Kong - the criticisms seem a bit indulgent.
Gregory Clark Tue, Apr 1, 08 at 02:47 PM
(Gregory Clark was formerly China desk officer in the Australian Department of External Affairs, and is now vice president of Akita International University. A Japanese translation of this article will appear on: http://www.gregoryclark.net.)
In some ways China is not my favorite country. I once went to some trouble to learn its language. I have often had to court rightwing hostility for trying to explain its foreign policies in less than demonic terms. Back in 1971 I even organized, single-handedly and over Canberra's opposition, an Australian team to join in Beijing's Ping-Pong diplomacy. (Canberra in those days saw Beijing as evil incarnate, and its efforts to open up to the world via Ping-Pong team matches as a plot to take us all over.) Yet, on my first day in China accompanying the team I had organized with such effort, I was almost expelled for trying to rescue an Australian journalist in trouble with the Red Guards. A few weeks later I was to receive a formal reprimand from the Chinese Foreign Ministry for trying to help more mistake-prone Australian journalists in trouble. This, together with some articles I wrote showing less than complete enthusiasm for China's disastrous Cultural Revolution, put me in Beijing's bad books for quite some time. Others who slavishly praised China at the time were warmly welcomed. But while it is easy to be annoyed by China's hard-nosed realpolitik in choosing friends, it is hard also not to be annoyed by the continual anti-China carping in the West. Here is a nation that has begun to lift one quarter of the world's population out of poverty to close to middle-class prosperity in a generation. Yet we are supposed to be upset by suspect paint on some toys ordered to the specifications of a U.S. importer, plus a few other imperfections in the torrent of quality goods helping rescue our Western economies from inflation and improve our own middle-class existences. China is accused of air pollution and gobbling up world energy resources. But when it dams the Yangtse River to produce over 22,000 megawatts of clean energy in an engineering feat that no Western nation can even begin to match, the Western media complain about the unforeseen erosion of mountain slopes upstream forcing villagers to be evacuated. So it would have been better not to build the dam, force China to continue to rely on pollution-intense, coal-based energy, and go back to the days when tens of thousands died from flooding in the Yangtse's heavily populated lower reaches? Somehow the recent opening of the remarkable 1,142-km, 5,000-meter-high railway line into Tibet is also sinful because it opens Tibet to Han Chinese influence. So it would be better to keep Tibetans in backward isolation forever? The Han Chinese are supposed to be guilty of creeping genocide in Tibet. But since Beijing allows Tibetans, like other minorities, to have as many children as they want while Han Chinese are restricted to only one child, it seems we need a new definition of genocide. China, it seems, is also guilty for failing to protest atrocities the West condemns in Sudan's Darfur and in Myanmar. Maybe it sees hypocrisy in the way the West not just fails to protest similar atrocities elsewhere, but actually helps to create them, as in Iraq, Somalia or Afghanistan. U.S. free-fire zones in Vietnam forcing villagers to live in underground tunnels for years make Darfur's Janjaweed killers look like a bunch of amateurs. Maybe we would all be better off if we stopped telling other nations what to do and concentrated on our own affairs, as China does. But the main complaint is that China is not a democracy. Has anyone thought what would happen if China was a democracy? The first victim would be the unpopular one-child policy, which threatens to cause serious problems for the nation in the future - rapid population aging, a male-female population imbalance, the weakening of family values. Yet, without that policy, the global pollution and resource shortage problems we all face would be far worse. In a sense the Chinese are making sacrifices for our sakes. But they get little thanks. Even the one-child policy is denounced as evil authoritarianism. Today few criticize Singapore, or Japan for that matter, both of whom chose one-party autocracy during their early growth periods. China's blend of local democracy with reasonably responsible collective leadership from the top could well be a model for many other struggling societies. Singapore's continuing one-party rule suggests that even advanced Chinese culture societies could prefer Confucian-style benign autocracy to Western-style democracy. Democracy is supposed to be about freedom of choice. But our moralists complain when a nation makes a choice they do not like. Even more annoying is the way the distorted products of myth-making are constantly dragged out to slam Beijing, as with the Tiananmen "massacre" of 1989? Just read the freely available reports from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing at the time to get the true story. China attacked India in 1962? Read what the historians have long said: namely, that it was India that attacked China and China retaliated. China wants to take over Taiwan? Almost the entire world now formally recognizes Taiwan to be part of China. China crushed Tibetan independence in 1959? But no one, the previous anticommunist Chinese regime especially, has ever recognized Tibet as independent. And we now know that the CIA and India were deeply involved in fomenting the 1959 uprising that China felt it had to crush. True, Chinese leaders have been far from angelic. They have yet to explain their largely unprovoked 1979 attack on Vietnam. Their mishandling of domestic policies led directly to the Tiananmen incident of 1989, and the many other localized riots that continue to occur. But post-Maoist Beijing has been trying hard to reform itself. It deserves more encouragement, less brickbats. Recent criticisms of China seem aimed to neutralize the kudos Beijing hopes its 2008 Olympics will bring. For some reason the British have long been the most diligent. As proof of Beijing's continuing authoritarianism the BBC recently went to some lengths to show a young reporter speaking execrable Chinese being refused entry to the closely guarded Chinese leadership housing and office compound in Beijing. Perhaps the guards remembered what happened the last time the British arrived there - the looting of invaluable treasures while crushing the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. London orchestrated much of the anti-China black information campaigns during Vietnam War days. It has used the Tiananmen myth to persuade the European Union to continue its ban on weapons sales to China. Its former governor in Hong Kong, Christopher Patten, was openly contemptuous of the Chinese regime. Coming from the nation that launched the two Opium Wars of the mid-19th century - wars that were to lead directly to many of China's later troubles, including the loss of Hong Kong - the criticisms seem a bit indulgent.
I have to protest against the Olympic Torch being carried through London also against the BOA policy of forcing British athletes to sign a contract to stop them having a voice of their own against the appalling Human rights in China and continuing torturing of those people fighting for basic human rights in Tibet. I now find myself not only in support for those protesting against the Olympic torch being carried across in London but now in protest against the very ill-informed judgement of our own British Olympic Association. Last mistake was the English Football Team giving a Nazi salute in 1938, how far we have not come, only interested in a money and fame.
This whole matter has meant I'm no longer supporting the London Olympics due to the fact that the British Olympic Association has very little regard to human rights and to equality. They are people clearly only have interest in their own self importance and not for the Olympic idea, and in their ill-gains in the form of freebies received from the Beijing Games. They are people who have no honour or integrity; I am disgusted in the BOA and now at any British athletes who will support their policy.
This whole matter has meant I'm no longer supporting the London Olympics due to the fact that the British Olympic Association has very little regard to human rights and to equality. They are people clearly only have interest in their own self importance and not for the Olympic idea, and in their ill-gains in the form of freebies received from the Beijing Games. They are people who have no honour or integrity; I am disgusted in the BOA and now at any British athletes who will support their policy.
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