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Free Quebec! Free Texas! Actually just give the whole lot back to the natives! What? That’s a little extreme you say? How can Canada remain Canada without a huge chunk of Quebec? What happened to all the history they shared together? If the public and the media continue to condemn the Chinese government and side with those bloody Free-Tibet protesters, I say our next step is to release Quebec from the evil grasp of the Canadian government and return USA soil to the Amerindians who got there first.

UPDATE: titled changed, yay.

For those who don’t think this is exactly headline news, here’s to quickly fill you in.

Free-Tibet Supporters: Free Tibet! Human rights abuse! Let Dalai Lama go back! No Olympics!
Tibetans: *burn stores* *harrass citizens* *threaten police*
Chinese government: LIES! ALL LIES! I’m giving you a deadline to stop burning things.
North American human rights groups: The Tibetans are suffering! Free Tibet! Shame on the Chinese government!
CNN: HEINOUS ACTS HAVE BEEN COMMITTED IN TIBET, PEOPLE DIED, SENSATIONAL STORIES, OMFGZ!!

WESTERN ATTENTION: America’s history of intervention

Now that we’re all on the same page, let’s browse around CNN and see what we can find.

The United States is urging Chinese restraint after days of violent protests in Tibet, even as a deadline passed for anti-Chinese protesters to surrender. U.S. State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey said the United States is very concerned about the Chinese crackdown on Tibetan protesters. “We continue to urge restraint on the part of the Chinese government in terms of how it responds to these protesters.” (Source)

The issue of the U.S.’s tendency to intrude upon other nation’s sovereignty in the name of democracy aside (see also: Uncalled invasion of Russia during its Red-White civil war 1918, attack upon Canada for Manifest Destiny 1812, the irony of Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points 1919, Truman’s doctrine in Greece and Turkey 1947, the fiasco in Korea 1950, the fiasco in Vietnam 1959, the badly-disguised raids for oil in the Persian Gulf 1990, the badly-disguised raids for oil weapons of mass destruction in Iraq 2003) … oops got carried away. Not my fault Uncle Sam has such a bad rap sheet. So the issue of U.S.’s tendency to storm into other people’s business to bring “justice and democracy” aside, isn’t it ironic the nation that prides itself on safety and security is recommending to a foreign superpower to use “restraint”?! Can’t you see what these so-called Tibetan protesters are doing? They’re hurting hundreds of innocent civilian. They’re bombing buildings. They’re burning schools and stores. They’re dosing FELLOW CITIZENS IN GASOLINE AND SETTING THEM ON FIRE.

Thirteen innocent civilians were burned or stabbed to death, [Tibet chairman] said, adding that calm had returned to Lhasa. On Friday, violence involving physical assault, destruction of property, looting and arson broke out in urban Lhasa. Rioters set fires at more than 300 locations, including 214 homes and shops, and smashed and burned 56 vehicles. In one case, a civilian was doused with gasoline and burned to death by rioters. Sixty-one members of the armed police were injured, including six critically. Rioters beat a police officer into a coma and cut a fist-size piece of flesh out of his buttock, he said. (Source, Notice how differently CNN and China Daily report the news? Not saying either side is right.)

TERRORISM: Called different names in different places

In the United States of America, you know what these “protesters” are called? They’re called TERRORISTS. Here, millions of tax dollars are put into tailing these people, bugging their homes, throwing them in jails, and DECLARING WARS ON THEIR COUNTRIES TO FIND THEIR CRIMINAL MASTERMIND IN CAVES IN AFGHANISTAN. Did you see the Chinese government telling Bush to NEGOTIATE with Osama Bin Laden?! Did you see Chinese Premier Hu raise international fervor when Iraq ignored the U.S.’s Ultimatum and the United States declared WAR?! So far the protesters ignored the Chinese deadline, and what. bloody. business does the U.S. State Department and Condoleeza Rice recommend “restraint” when they themselves went on to an invasion of a foreign country without the approval of the United Nations?!

When a region is under civil unrest, the government’s’ responsibilities are to ensure the safety and well-being of her citizens and STOP the violence through force, if needed. Dear Condi and Georgie, the next time Bin Laden bombs the shit out of your ranch and offices, sit down, breath, call a meeting, serve some cupcakes, and sort it all out like normal, responsible, statesmen because that way 1) no human right abuses occur 2) it really builds up American morale! Oh what irony!

MEDIA TRANSPARENCY: A total hypocritic farce

The next piece of article making news its rounds on CNN is that of a film crew who were evacuated from a hotel near Llosa due to the protest, or in the words of western media “banned access to the location” (you’d think that the press has more things to worry about when a recession the size of an army of giant mammoths is hitting their country).

As the [American film crew] were being driven away from the Xiahe area, [crew member Spence] Palermo said, they encountered a convoy of 20 Chinese military trucks headed toward Xiahe. “Most of them were loaded with Chinese soldiers, but … about half of the trucks were empty,” he said. “All I could think of was that they would soon be filled with the amazing, wonderful, kind and happy [Labrang Monastery] monks who would most likely be taken away to who knows where.” (Source)

My god Mr. Palmero, if you used more adjectives in addition to your “amazing, wonderful, kind, and happy” monks we’d have to buy you Baby’s First Dictionary, Volume II. What’s the point he’s trying to make here? That the Western media is transparent and people-powered while Chinese newspapers are heavily censored and state-controlled? I beg to differ. From what we’ve seen of the sensational Western press, stories are formed in such a way to sway public opinion and complement the photos taken for it. Take the picture below for example. The version CNN run is actually edited to remove the Tibetan protesters throwing rocks and jeering at the truck. What, are they trying to create another Tiananmen Square international outrage?

THE BANDWAGON: Think before you jump

To all these Free-Tibet groups springing up in North America, do they check their sources? Are many of their members from China? Have they been to China? Or are they so narrow-minded and short-sighted that you will fight for this through whatever means necessary? Kill the soldiers. Torture the civilians. Is this how they think the Chinese government will accommodate to your needs? The Dalai Lama calls this a “cultural genocide”. No, it absolutely isn’t. China is just as multicultural as Canada (56 different ethnicities FYI, I highly recommend this video which will give you a great awakening accompanied by awesome music, props to Momo for finding it!) Look at the temple pictured below. Does that look like religious and cultural prosecution? The government spends billions of dollar in bringing modern living to Tibet because it … just wants to put on a show for the West? Seems unlikely. The language is promoted. The culture is respected. The religion is allowed. So which part of this is “genocide”? Oh I’m sorry, the part about chasing terrorists out of the country? Gee I wonder why. I don’t deny that China has made mistakes in the past, but please, figure out the truth about Tibet before shouting at the top of your lungs.

HIDDEN AGENDA: CIA’s Shady Motive

On a side note, to back up the Video’s claim that Tibetan independence is funded by the CIA, consult the following excerpt from Rediff

The Central Intelligence Agency has stoutly refused to discuss its involvement in the Tibetan struggle but the story in Tuesday’s [Sept 1998] Los Angeles Times blows the lid off the Tibetan operation. The declassified historical documents provide the first inside details of the CIA’s decade-long covert programme to support the Tibetan independence movement. Part of the efforts was enlisting prestigious universities as Cornell in creating Tibetan study programmes. (Source)

Erm, does this sound like brain-washing to anyone? Quick history lesson: in the1940s-50s, the few men in charge of American foreign policy - US Ambassadors to Moscow W. Averell Harriman, George F. Kennan, and Charles E. Bohlen - all became “professionally-trained Russian experts” at an institution called Riga in Latvia. Some historians have claimed that this is one of the forces that broke diplomatic ties between the US and the USSR for these people were exposed to anti-Stalinist and anti-Communist doctrines at Riga. As history so clearly tells us, what do “specialized study programmes” on another cultural become? PROPAGANDA. And what does propaganda lead to? The Cold War - where two nuclear powers come within a hair’s length of unleashing destruction upon the entire civilized world.

I digress. According to the source above, “for much of the 1960s, the CIA provided the Tibetan exile movement with $ 1.7 million a year for operations against China, including an annual subsidy of $ 180,000 for the Dalai Lama.” Oh Uncle Sam, when will you ever learn that foreign powers don’t respond well when you march in your army of GI Joes and story-hungry news reporters on their soil? So yes, back to MY initiative of freeing Quebec, Texas, then returning the rest of our land to the Natives/Aboriginals! WOOT!

Sources I consulted/recommend

• Tibet Chairman: Police exercised great restraint from China Daily
• China Vows to Protect Territory from CBC
• American film crew kept from China protests from CNN
• In pictures: Lhasa street tense from BBC
• In the Field: Tibet in Turmoil from CNN
• Laughable - McCain’s Speech from SFFT
• Tibet Protest Photos
• Thank you Momo for bringing the video to my attention!
• Digg this - much appreciated.

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