Morpheal’s Commentary - March 10th, 2009 - Northern Ireland, United States of Africa, Liberation of Tibet and Impeccable Spying
NORTHERN IRELAND AND RESURGENCE OF THE IRA: Areas already suffering chronic poverty, in tough times, suffer more, and it is in such places anger based on disparities, and on ethnic and political differences, gains expression, often in acts of enraged violence. Northern Ireland is such a place, and it is impossible to speak of a peace process where the real basis for anger is never really an open subject, discussed with forthright honesty, at a bargaining table. The violent attacks tend to be against symbols of a blamed authority. No matter what other arguments are loosed to try to lever political position, we all must know that every violent act of insurrection and rebellion, anywhere in the world, has at its deepest roots something economic. Without that fact all manner of other differences of religions, ethnicities, and matters of governance, would be largely mute. People who have sufficiency are far less concerned with committing desperate acts than those who do not. Persistent denial of such facts only leads to an eventual worsening of the situation. A UNITED STATES OF AFRICA ENDING THE CONTINENT’S GRIM PROGNOSIS ? Africa can contend with the recession and build its future, if and only if it breaks loose from dependence upon other nations for its economic impetus and direction. A United States of Africa, by whatever name it chooses, can brighten the horizon, with new hope for the oppressed continent. We might wonder if Colonel Khadafy might truly be the father of such a nation, and the first architect of its future, reclaiming its desert by means of its united capabilities to now bring about that change. TIBET NEEDS LIBERATION FROM THE DALAI LAMA: Facts speak clearly against the Dalai Lama. No nation should have to suffer enslavement to support a religious elite. The Dalai Lama should find a real job, and become a productive citizen, not rely upon a nation of feudal serfs to serve the needs of his do nothing religious nobility. China should close down the monasteries, making them museums to superstitious ignorance, sending the membership out into the world to farm, make useful goods and to provide needed services that benefit the people. The monasteries have long been a refuge from meaningful and productive work. They have long been a burden on their societies. They have long stood in the way of modern, scientific, rational progress, as bastions of conservative superstitions, using fear to control the local population, kept ignorant of the truth. Tibetan buddhism has long relied on what we in the west would term “black magic” and “demonology” to frighten the people into reverence and service to the very large body of religious elite burdening Tiben society and preventing modern education as part of its own program for survival against progress. It is intolerable in this modern age that such practices, of control of a whole nation, by means of irrational, uneducated, ignorant, terror, would be allowed to in any way continue. China must be supported in its continued efforts to modernize Tibet. While it might look enticing to westerners, poorly educated in Tibetan lore and practices, to continue traditional Tibetan ignorance, the facts are that Tibet has been kept in a medieval dark age of demons and fear mongering rituals by the very same sect, loosely derivative from Buddhism, that the Dalai Lama is proseletyzing and misrepresenting. Nowhere does the Dalai Lama mention Tibetan demonology and its importance to traditional Tibetan political practices. IMPECCABLE SPYING: BBC reports: (the Impeccable was in) international waters 75 miles (120km) south of Hainan island. The ships "aggressively manoeuvred" around the Impeccable "in an apparent co-ordinated effort to harass the US ocean surveillance ship".... What would the United States do if a Chinese ship was within 75 miles of its submarine base, conducting surveillance operations there ? We must assume that the United States would destroy the Chinese vessel completely. As it is the United States vessel was treated with extreme courtesy and we must commend the exceptional self control, discipline, and fine manners of the Chinese government and its military in dealing so gently with the United States incursion. The Commander in Chief of the United States armed forces, President Barack Obama, should be clearly informed by now that such spy missions do not serve the cause of world peace, and that he is very lucky that China does not deal with United States transgressions in the same manner as the United States military would deal with a similar Chinese incursion. While the United States continues to attempt to torpedo all forms of diplomacy, China is showing a much more civilized approach, and does not seize or sink transgressions the way the United States would respond at 75 miles from the Virginia coast. Let’s get real, shall we ? Be done to as you would do unto them ? Keep complaining about Chinese naval harassment, Mr. Obama, and that is what you might just get in return. We all know that Chinese spy ships cannot operate within 75 miles of the American coast. Least of all Roanoke,Virginia. Would you, Mr. Obama, like Chinese spy vessels operating within 75 miles of where you keep your newest ballistic submarines ? We think you owe China a very sincere apology. The world cannot fail but to comprehend the United States actions as dangerously provocative and a clear sign that the United States is less interested in world peace and cooperation than it is in provocation of China and its military, perhaps as a potential way out of its own economic catastrophe ? Clearly the United States chose to be caught with its pants down, near Hainan’s Chinese naval facilities, knowing that that would necessarily provoke Chinese response. The world community must realize the seriousness of the situation, knowing that the vessel could potentially have been sunk or captured as a spy ship operating in Chinese waters, endangering Chinese national security. Robert Morpheal --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
