I hope this is not stepping over the line.........
While we are sitting around here wondering what we can do to increase our living-standard by 0.001% and we are complaining and nitpicking about issues that are like ripples on the ocean... The interest rate is too high... the interest rate is too low... My God how expensive the gas is by now... I can only go to restaurants three days a week, it's just terrible, I can't afford anything anymore... The hi-fi stuff is too expensive... The world is coming to and end because CD's are compressed... DRM is killing me…
These are merely ripples on the water and hardly anything that matters in the great perspective.
While we complain about nothingness, people out there are being shot dead and murdered and slaughtered... Their offence is stating their opinion against a regime that's possibly more violent than anything we have seen for a long time. What does the public do? Nothing, we don't even care because it doesn't affect the US or EU economy.
Is it so that we only care when it directly affects our economy?
On September 27 1987, about 150-200 lay people and 26 monks demonstrated in the street of Lhasa. They were peacefully shouting "Tibet is independent" and asking the Chinese to quit Tibet. However, the Chinese Security Forces arrested 36 demonstrators, including monks. This was followed by a series of other demonstrations. An estimated crowd of 2000 Tibetan people gathered in front of Jokhang Temple in Lhasa during one such demonstration. The Chinese police brutally beat Tibetan monks and many Tibetans were killed mercilessly. One monk was beaten to death inside the police station that aroused more demonstrators to join in. These demonstrators snatched and burned the guns of the Chinese instead of using against them. The International Communities were a witness to this height of Non-Violence in action by the Tibetans against the extreme brutality of the Chinese Army.
Now things are seriously escalating in Tibet again and the Chinese are blaming Dalai Lama about the violence. When is this going to stop.
Tibet is not, have never been and will never be Chinese territory. The Chinese have illegally invaded another country and retains a terror regime that's possibly worse than anything the world has ever seen.
The Nobel committee awarded the Peace Price to Dalai Lama for his non violent work, what has happened before or after this… When did George W. Bush ever speak up to the liberty of a people that's unlawfully been under occupation since 1951?
We have an obligation to speak up and say that this is not acceptable!
One thing we may do is to support team Tibet to get to the Chinese olympic games...
http://supportteamtibet.org/
Regards
Harald N