Re: (Free Tibet) Why Tibet??

"Sutek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "Makoto Taniguchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > "betelnut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > tibet has been a backward civilization stuck in the middle ages.  the
> > > chinese must civilize them.
> >
> > You sound just as bad as those Christian missionaries who have
> > stripped the Native Americans of their land and culture.
> More antireligion? Missionaries don't do much culture stripping, it's
> governements.

They did many bad things, including selling babies. 

"I was visiting it at the suggestion of Ken Duncan, an aid and development
consultant who had heard that I was interested in the Catholic organization
Opus Dei. Duncan, not himself a Catholic, had been taken aback by the
activities of Opus in Peru and wanted to tell his experiences to someone who
might draw attention to what he saw as unacceptable behavior on the part of
the Opus clergy. In particular he had been shocked by a Peruvian orphange to
which  he had been invited. He was surprised at its size; the Quechua Indians
with their extended families rarely needed the services of an orphanage. He
was even more surprised to discover that some of the children in the
institution were not even orphans. The Church authorities had simply said
that their fathers and mothers had not been thought suitable parents, and the
children had been taken from them. "What happens when the children grow up?"
querried Duncan, noticing that few of the orphans were more than five or six
years old. "We have friends in America or Germany who take them off our
hands, he was told.  People are not charged, he was told, but to make a
donation. It seem remarkably like selling babies."(OPUS DEI by Michael Walsh )