Re: (Free Tibet) Why Tibet??

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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.
Chinese imprison children and torture them. Today.
>
> "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 )
Jeezus! Wake me when it's over, or shoot me now.