Thursday, October 11, 2007

Thought of the Day: Stupid Arguments

The U.S. is set to honor the Dalai Lama, and China is pissed off. They are trying to argue that the Dalai Lama is evil, and that he wants a free Tibet at the expense of the People's Republic of China.

I may not keep up on the news as regularly as I should with my busy schedule, but I can't remember a time when I saw a group of Tibetan monks opening up a can of whoopass on some innocent Chinese folks. However, I can very clearly remember a scene where the Chinese army was burning a monastery, beating monks with canes, and pushing them off balconies several stories in the air.

Sorry China, but your argument is stupid. You are a country with a terrible civil rights record trying to call into question a guy who regularly espouses messages of peace, hope, and harmony. Even your own people who you are targeting with a decent amount of propaganda most likely know you're full of shit. The only reason you don't like the Dalai Lama is because he refuses to roll over and play dead (no matter how dead you want him to be).

2 comments:

FOUR DINNERS said...

Unfortunately for old DL he hasn't got huge supplies of oil knockin' around either. If he had we might have got him n his monks their country back by now - for concessions of course...

* (asterisk) said...

China's a fucking disaster. And it's outrageous that stiffer sanctions haven't been put in place in the lead-up to the Olympics.