Free tibet
April 7, 2008
the olimpic torch has just been through london in its way round the world right. as expect the streets were lind with pro tibeten camainers.
for thos of you who dont no, china is curently ‘ocupiying’ tibet. this means that its under chinas rool, ok so why is that a bad thing? it all pritty much comes down to huma rights, tibets daly are subjected to torcher. this is for meaningless things, they are not alowed freedom of speach. this means if they do say something about how they dislike the chines goverment they get torcherd and thrown in prison.
also many women have forced sterilasation. tibet is exempt from chinas 1 child rule, but still if the authorities find out that a woman has given birth to more tham there 1 child there are given a fine, its is a stupid amount of money that most tibetsn have no chance of paying, if the fine can not be payed then they get sterilised by force with no anasetic. tibets are murderd by chines inforces and are subject to all manner or crulties.
tibet is home to the tibet buddists, and has been for ages. but from under the chines roul the leader of the buddists and lead of tibet his holeyness the 14th dali lama has been exiled from his own coutrie, come on how dose that work?!
the dali lama has spoken on the olimpics being heald in bayjing and has said that there shouldnt be a boycot of the games, and maitains his peaceful non violent protest aproch.
so i am disapointed with some pro tibet protesters, the ones who have attempted to put on the olimpic flam and disrupted it jurny. i suport there cause 100% and agree that china should leav tibet, but some people have gon about it wrong, i think they have given the cause a bad name trying to put out the torch, it represents peace and os trying to put it out is wrong. peacful protests i agree with, but i do not belive in going agains the dali lamas wishes and boycoting the games.
so theres my thoughts, needed to say sumert but didnt no quite who to say it to.
Is a boycott not peaceful? Martin Luther King was all for peace and got all his work done with boycotts of segregated busses and cafes and stuff. Interrupting the torch procession was a bit out of order but a boycott is 100% peaceful in my book.
But of course a boycott would not be much use because the Olympic Games will sell out no matter what.
its not so much about a boycott not being peacful in its self, its about its ramifications, and how the boycott is atchived. if the free tibet camaine gets any ‘bad publisity’ is message may not be hured, the dali lama is for maitaining peace and by not boycotting, or not condoning a boycott he can be shor that he is not causing any violance. (which would go agains his ethics and religion)