As we came home from a doctor’s appointment on southbound HWY 101, we’ve heard over the airwaves on KGO 810AM this morning that there was a protest going on over at the Golden Gate Bridge. The announcer(s) said the protesters climbed the bridge and unfurled big, pro Tibetan banners for the spectators, who have taken lots of pictures from below and probably for news, blogging or souvenirs sake.
In another related news story on April 7, 2008, the Olympics torch was extinguished a couple times during the torch relay in Paris, France and it had to be driven by bus the rest of the way. Demonstrations, confrontations and arrests were done and more banners were hung in protest of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
All I know is that, according to the news, there is a problem with basic human rights, especially to those in Tibet. Now, I don’t know about y’all but certain ‘old souls’ claim that Communism is a good enough control mechanism for countries as large as China with the over 6.6 billion people as the current population.
As for executing and killing Chinese people for no reason at all, this is not good. Maybe this is a symbolic karma incarnated for the alleged kidnapping by the Chinese government by the 11th Panchen Lama (Gedun Choekyi Nyima), the proclaimed, true reincarnation of the 10th Panchen Lama. And I really don’t like the looks of the current Dalai Lama. He doesn’t feel the least bit holy to me, at least, considering the fighting going on between the Tibetans and Chinese government.
So yeah, I would like the restoration of basic human and civil rights for and among the people of China as a whole and the returning of Tibet to independence and its rightful installation of the Panchen Lama. There is no reason to hold this person and his family hostage against the will of the people. I don’t understand how business could be conducted in light of the Chinese government’s unwillingness to open its doors to the oncoming globalization, too.
Anyway, I recall a few days ago on a cable news programming of someone mentioning that the Olympics is about the people and not the government. I feel that if the people are indeed suffering under the iron clad rule of its government, then this should be the business of the international community. I don’t understand how the athletes could compete, be well fed, clothed and sheltered when others are being subjugated to the injustice of freedom that the people the United States seem to take for granted.
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