Eli Jikelele

The Dalai Lama story is milked out…. The only news would be if Barbara Hogan is NOT FIRED by her spineless,corrupt and incompetent colleagues!

Terryt

On the contrary, this story will NOT be over until the RIGHT decision is made. Until this man of peace is welcomed in our land.

Larry Goodfella

Thanks Ray.

You have very succinctly spelled out the precise transition that this country has travelled. From a proud newly aquired heritage of human rights, (with the kind assistance of the ‘good’ world), to bottom of the pile panderer of the worst human rights abusers of this century.

Those that our country now venerate, with awards and political favour, are the regimes that our government aspire to emulate.

In a nutshell. We are fuc.ked.

TonyP4

Free Tibet, my holy foot

Please do not liberate my country. I understand your energy, good nature and idealism. I was the same when I was at your age. I hope you’re there to protest for China when your ancestors pushed opium to China.

First, thanks you all. Now, I’m a naturalized US citizen collecting generous welfare benefits. You do not understand how my life has been improved staying here. Just imagine living in the highest mountain in your country year round.

There are always folks wanting to be kings and queens. They have their ambitions and revolutionary ideas. Some may want to steal ‘legally’. The last ones went to India after the failed revolt sponsored by CIA. What do you feel if US and Brits drop arms from airplane into Quebec? Please let me know who sponsor today’s Tibetan movements – not seem to be a Mickey Mouse production. They do not speak for the common folks who just want a peaceful life.

News on Tibet must feed a lot of reporters in the west but hurt their conscience. Some are not true and some were reported from the desk. The recent Tibetan riot was started when Han Chinese were murdered but was reported wrongly with photos that were bought and modified to indicate it was the other way round. To be fair, Chinese reporters are no angels.

The Chinese will not give up Tibet. It is the major water source for most of Asia. How many territories within a country are now independent? We get more from the Chinese than giving back. Our standard of living improves substantially and so is our literacy rate (in our old feudal system, only monks could learn). Where else in China citizens get free medical care and education?

The new train and the proposed 750 small dams to generate electricity are recent gifts. I bet the extraction of natural Chinese will improve our living standard further. It is the same as opening a casino in an Indian reservation. The benefits outnumber the drawbacks.

China had been ruled by Mongolians and Manchurians in history. We’re one of the 55 minorities, same as the blacks in your country or the Quebec French in Canada. Dali Lama must be the best salesman on earth with the circus of silly and most likely uneducated Hollywood celebrities. If there were one like him for Mongolia, one for Manchuria, you guys will be busy for a long while.

Unless you can convince your congress to send soldiers to ‘liberate’ us, please do not stir up our rebellious sentiment towards the Chinese. The more you do, the more our folks suffer and ‘disappear’.

Spend your energy elsewhere. The choices are unlimited: CEOs enjoying outrageous benefits/bonuses from companies receiving bailouts, or killing Iraqi children in a war you cannot afford. Just leave our 2 million souls in Tibet alone. Check for the last 200 years, who are the ones that invade and colonize? Not Chinese for sure as they had been victims.

Everywhere in China, you see Tibetan cultures have been maintained (excluding the Cultural Revolution) – different from what your ‘reporters’ report. All the minorities have been exempted from the one-child policy. Check out the following link. Do they look oppressed to you?

It sounds like propaganda. I want you to know that I have no connection with the Chinese government. Your action on the wheel-chair torch bearer for Olympic showed the world how barbarous and coward you are.

I just want to be realistic and the world at least my world will be more peaceful without your demonstrations. I wrote the above from the mind of the silent majority of Tibetans.

Philip

Ray,

It’s time we all stand up and say it like it is. From heroes of the planet to third worst, third world polecats of the planet in a few easy moves.

I think this country would be better off with no Minister or Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They can be relied completely in only one sense, to stuff up our relationships with anyone worth having as a friend and with making friends with the rest of the world’s polecats.

Elizabeth MacLeod

I keep trying to find a way to be proud of our country, and sadly, the bits I do find are few and far between. My kids grow up here, what do I tell them? My daughter almost didn’t survive finding out about apartheid. What do I tell her now? Ray, thanks. We do need to stand up in a big way, and this is as good as blogging can get. Honestly, what now.

Skodide Goodfella

Well, if one were to compare what the change was that took place in our country in 1994, and then consider the change/s that have taken place from 1994 till to-day; then I’m afraid we will find that the latter change [from 1994 till to-day], is greater than the former change [from apartheid to "democracy"]. We have traversed, by means of a well oiled typical-communistic type propagana and falsehood strategy, along a path of socialistic dogma, which is bound to find this country building on both sides of sh.it street before too long. I do believe that we [those who KNOW AND PERCEIVE the truth, should stand up and tell the world that at least WE would want many things to be changed in order for betterment to take place; INSTEAD OF THIS THAT WE ARE RECEIVING TO-DAY [and paying for it as well]