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An excellent point. Thanks for bringing it up.
Is this some kind of attempt to pick lessers of two evils John?
Why not provide a little background including the terrible human rights
abuses of the "superstitious" Tibetans?
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, warren greer wrote:
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> Why do none of the hearts which bleed for the
> superstitious Tibetans ever mention that slavery was
> legal and practiced in the theocracy run by the lamas
> until it was outlawed by the Communist Chinese Red
> Army? Who ever bled for the MILLIONS slaughtered by
> Suharto in Indonesia under the aegis of the U.S.
> Central Intelligence (!!) Agency? Where do all these
> miles of statistics,
> news items, etc., come from? Why did the Right-Wing
> Heart-Broken Association never mention the 300,000
> murdered Mayans in C.I.A.-
> run Guatemala? Ohhhh, for the Compassionate
> Conservatives du jour!!
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>> AP and Reuters assist in sacrilege
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>> News readers should be on the alert for Beijing, AP,
>> and Reuters "pulling a
>> big sham"
>> as Communist propaganda crosses the newswires
>>
>> By John Kusumi
>>
>> The meaning of words will be at issue today.
>> Newswires are demonstrating
>> that they form an axis with the Communist masters of
>> Beijing, China, and
>> they are trying to pull a big one over on you.
>> You, me, and everyone are
>> confronted by an enormous fraud and deception today.
>>
>> The Roman Catholic church has the Pope. No newswire
>> is questioning whether
>> or not Joseph Ratzinger is Pope Benedict XVI. He is
>> that.
>>
>> Tibetan Buddhism has the Panchen Lama. No newswire
>> should be questioning
>> whether or not Gedhun Choekyi Nyima is Panchen Lama
>> XI. He is that.
>>
>> The arrogance of journalism comes to the fore when
>> some newswires arrogate
>> to themselves the decision making authority over who
>> is a figure in Tibetan
>> Buddhism. The correct arbiter of same should be the
>> Dalai Lama, not
>> Christopher Bodeen of the Associated Press. By the
>> Dalai Lama, we already
>> know that Gedhun Choekyi Nyima is the eleventh
>> Panchen Lama.
>>
>> Today, I have read an article by Bodeen, and I want
>> him to take that back
>> and apologize. More broadly, I want the AP and
>> Reuters to issue retractions
>> and apologies from both newswires. The Tibetan
>> people are the ones who are
>> the most directly violated by this state of affairs,
>> but I am an American
>> and non-Buddhist, and I want an apology, personally!
>>
>> Upon explanation, I feel that many of my fellow news
>> readers will agree that
>> what is at hand is profoundly foul and offensive.
>> They need not be
>> Buddhists. Simple, ordinary people with respect will
>> understand that
>> religions are sacred things and should be inviolate.
>> AP and Reuters have
>> crossed a line into sacrilege.
>>
>> Some of my readers will need no explanation. There
>> are hundreds of groups in
>> the cause to 'Free Tibet,' and they know well about
>> the situation at hand.
>> AP and Reuters will also be getting howls of protest
>> from such people as
>> Students for a Free Tibet; the International Tibet
>> Support Network; the
>> Tibetan Youth Congress; International Tibet
>> Independence Movement; the US
>> Tibet Committee; the Rangzen Alliance; Friends of
>> Tibet; and the
>> International Campaign for Tibet.
>>
>> Since 1995, it is true (as reported by the China
>> Support Network and many
>> other sources) that "The Panchen Lama has become
>> known as the world's
>> youngest political prisoner." He was abducted at the
>> age of six, and is an
>> international celebrity for two reasons first,
>> because the Panchen Lama is
>> a major figure in Tibet's Buddhist religion; and
>> second, because Beijing
>> abducted him and an international campaign for his
>> release continues to
>> scream his name and banner his picture.
>>
>> However, Beijing rejects both the Dalai Lama and his
>> choice of the boy for
>> Panchen Lama. No one in Beijing has the authority to
>> choose a Panchen Lama,
>> but they have gone ahead and selected their own boy
>> so that they can
>> "install" their own, pro-Beijing person to be a
>> regime-friendly, pro-Beijing
>> person.
>>
>> To kidnap the Panchen Lama was bad enough; per the
>> China Support Network (in
>> an article of 2004), that was "a display of the
>> brazen rape of another
>> people." I wrote then that "Brazen is one word.
>> Flagrant, heinous, and
>> sacrilegious are three more words....his case
>> clearly points out the
>> diabolical nature of China's Communist regime, as it
>> readily violates not
>> just an individual, but a religious figure, and
>> thereby the entire society
>> that cares about the Panchen Lama. Violated and
>> raped are two more words,
>> and Tibet can understandably feel that way."
>>
>> So, if the kidnapping was bad enough, then words
>> begin to fail now, as we
>> consider (a.) the arrogated selection, by Beijing,
>> of a Panchen Lama
>> impostor; and (b.) the fact that AP and Reuters
>> today are reporting the
>> impostor as if he is actually the Panchen Lama. I
>> believe clearly that this
>> is sacrilege, and that this is foul, faulty, and
>> false reporting that serves
>> only to move along Communist propaganda, while a
>> crime against humanity is
>> committed. Again, I am not Tibetan, and I am not
>> Buddhist, but I can see a
>> religion being violated, and I can see journalists
>> arrogating to themselves
>> something akin to the selection of the Pope.
>>
>> What if it crossed the news wire that Jacques Chirac
>> does not like the
>> selection of Joseph Ratzinger, and that Chirac
>> appoints Pierre Z'Bumpkin to
>> be the Pope? Well, the world knows how Popes are
>> selected, and that it
>> occurs in a conclave of Cardinals. So the world
>> should be able to laugh or
>> to shrug off any such impertinency as in the example
>> above.
>>
>> Right now, the AP and Reuters are hoping that the
>> world is ignorant of how
>> Panchen Lamas are selected. They hope that no one
>> has ever heard of the
>> Dalai Lama. The only problem for the AP and Reuters
>> is that we are not that
>> ignorant. History did not begin yesterday, nor did
>> we fall off of a lemon
>> truck yesterday. (Boy, don't journalists wish? In my
>> lifetime, journalism
>> has gone from "the first draft of history" to "the
>> fictionalization of
>> history.")
>>
>> Reuters began its article by saying, "Tibet's 11th
>> Panchen Lama, anointed by
>> China's atheist Communists but not by the Tibet's
>> Dalai Lama, took center
>> stage at the World Buddhist Forum on Thursday,
>> defending China's record on
>> religion." (Hmmm. Why would China's record on
>> religion need defending, if
>> Beijing were not offending?)
>>
>> Reuters continued, "Gyaltsen Norbu, appointed in
>> 1995 as the Himalayan
>> region's second most important religious figure
>> after Beijing rejected the
>> Dalai Lama's nominee...." (Hmmm. Recall from above
>> that the Panchen Lama is
>> named Gedhun Choekyi Nyima. The impostor, Gyaltsen
>> Norbu, is being named
>> here. This is enough to make one wonder about Pierre
>> Z'Bumpkin, posited
>> fictionally above as a suggestion for Pope. Do you
>> suppose that AP and
>> Reuters can fill us in about him, too?)
>>
>> The AP is in on this scam, too. Look at this quote
>> from AP: "Gyaltsen Norbu,
>> 16, is the second-highest figure in Tibetan
>> Buddhism." AP described this
>> appearance as "an apparent sign that Beijing is
>> seeking greater acceptance
>> for its choice of the Panchen Lama." However, we
>> know from earlier that
>> Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was previously reported to be
>> the Panchen Lama. Whether
>> the newswires agree this is sacrilege or not, a vast
>> violation of estoppel
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