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Why do none of the hearts which bleed for the
superstitious Tibetans ever mention that slavery was
legal and practiced in the theocracy run by the lamas
until it was outlawed by the Communist Chinese Red
Army? Who ever bled for the MILLIONS slaughtered by
Suharto in Indonesia under the aegis of the U.S.
Central Intelligence (!!) Agency? Where do all these
miles of statistics,
news items, etc., come from? Why did the Right-Wing
Heart-Broken Association never mention the 300,000
murdered Mayans in C.I.A.-
run Guatemala? Ohhhh, for the Compassionate
Conservatives du jour!!
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> AP and Reuters assist in sacrilege
>
> News readers should be on the alert for Beijing, AP,
> and Reuters "pulling a
> big sham"
> as Communist propaganda crosses the newswires
>
> By John Kusumi
>
> The meaning of words will be at issue today.
> Newswires are demonstrating
> that they form an axis with the Communist masters of
> Beijing, China, and
> they are trying to pull a big one over on you.
> You, me, and everyone are
> confronted by an enormous fraud and deception today.
>
> The Roman Catholic church has the Pope. No newswire
> is questioning whether
> or not Joseph Ratzinger is Pope Benedict XVI. He is
> that.
>
> Tibetan Buddhism has the Panchen Lama. No newswire
> should be questioning
> whether or not Gedhun Choekyi Nyima is Panchen Lama
> XI. He is that.
>
> The arrogance of journalism comes to the fore when
> some newswires arrogate
> to themselves the decision making authority over who
> is a figure in Tibetan
> Buddhism. The correct arbiter of same should be the
> Dalai Lama, not
> Christopher Bodeen of the Associated Press. By the
> Dalai Lama, we already
> know that Gedhun Choekyi Nyima is the eleventh
> Panchen Lama.
>
> Today, I have read an article by Bodeen, and I want
> him to take that back
> and apologize. More broadly, I want the AP and
> Reuters to issue retractions
> and apologies from both newswires. The Tibetan
> people are the ones who are
> the most directly violated by this state of affairs,
> but I am an American
> and non-Buddhist, and I want an apology, personally!
>
> Upon explanation, I feel that many of my fellow news
> readers will agree that
> what is at hand is profoundly foul and offensive.
> They need not be
> Buddhists. Simple, ordinary people with respect will
> understand that
> religions are sacred things and should be inviolate.
> AP and Reuters have
> crossed a line into sacrilege.
>
> Some of my readers will need no explanation. There
> are hundreds of groups in
> the cause to 'Free Tibet,' and they know well about
> the situation at hand.
> AP and Reuters will also be getting howls of protest
> from such people as
> Students for a Free Tibet; the International Tibet
> Support Network; the
> Tibetan Youth Congress; International Tibet
> Independence Movement; the US
> Tibet Committee; the Rangzen Alliance; Friends of
> Tibet; and the
> International Campaign for Tibet.
>
> Since 1995, it is true (as reported by the China
> Support Network and many
> other sources) that "The Panchen Lama has become
> known as the world's
> youngest political prisoner." He was abducted at the
> age of six, and is an
> international celebrity for two reasons first,
> because the Panchen Lama is
> a major figure in Tibet's Buddhist religion; and
> second, because Beijing
> abducted him and an international campaign for his
> release continues to
> scream his name and banner his picture.
>
> However, Beijing rejects both the Dalai Lama and his
> choice of the boy for
> Panchen Lama. No one in Beijing has the authority to
> choose a Panchen Lama,
> but they have gone ahead and selected their own boy
> so that they can
> "install" their own, pro-Beijing person to be a
> regime-friendly, pro-Beijing
> person.
>
> To kidnap the Panchen Lama was bad enough; per the
> China Support Network (in
> an article of 2004), that was "a display of the
> brazen rape of another
> people." I wrote then that "Brazen is one word.
> Flagrant, heinous, and
> sacrilegious are three more words....his case
> clearly points out the
> diabolical nature of China's Communist regime, as it
> readily violates not
> just an individual, but a religious figure, and
> thereby the entire society
> that cares about the Panchen Lama. Violated and
> raped are two more words,
> and Tibet can understandably feel that way."
>
> So, if the kidnapping was bad enough, then words
> begin to fail now, as we
> consider (a.) the arrogated selection, by Beijing,
> of a Panchen Lama
> impostor; and (b.) the fact that AP and Reuters
> today are reporting the
> impostor as if he is actually the Panchen Lama. I
> believe clearly that this
> is sacrilege, and that this is foul, faulty, and
> false reporting that serves
> only to move along Communist propaganda, while a
> crime against humanity is
> committed. Again, I am not Tibetan, and I am not
> Buddhist, but I can see a
> religion being violated, and I can see journalists
> arrogating to themselves
> something akin to the selection of the Pope.
>
> What if it crossed the news wire that Jacques Chirac
> does not like the
> selection of Joseph Ratzinger, and that Chirac
> appoints Pierre Z'Bumpkin to
> be the Pope? Well, the world knows how Popes are
> selected, and that it
> occurs in a conclave of Cardinals. So the world
> should be able to laugh or
> to shrug off any such impertinency as in the example
> above.
>
> Right now, the AP and Reuters are hoping that the
> world is ignorant of how
> Panchen Lamas are selected. They hope that no one
> has ever heard of the
> Dalai Lama. The only problem for the AP and Reuters
> is that we are not that
> ignorant. History did not begin yesterday, nor did
> we fall off of a lemon
> truck yesterday. (Boy, don't journalists wish? In my
> lifetime, journalism
> has gone from "the first draft of history" to "the
> fictionalization of
> history.")
>
> Reuters began its article by saying, "Tibet's 11th
> Panchen Lama, anointed by
> China's atheist Communists but not by the Tibet's
> Dalai Lama, took center
> stage at the World Buddhist Forum on Thursday,
> defending China's record on
> religion." (Hmmm. Why would China's record on
> religion need defending, if
> Beijing were not offending?)
>
> Reuters continued, "Gyaltsen Norbu, appointed in
> 1995 as the Himalayan
> region's second most important religious figure
> after Beijing rejected the
> Dalai Lama's nominee...." (Hmmm. Recall from above
> that the Panchen Lama is
> named Gedhun Choekyi Nyima. The impostor, Gyaltsen
> Norbu, is being named
> here. This is enough to make one wonder about Pierre
> Z'Bumpkin, posited
> fictionally above as a suggestion for Pope. Do you
> suppose that AP and
> Reuters can fill us in about him, too?)
>
> The AP is in on this scam, too. Look at this quote
> from AP: "Gyaltsen Norbu,
> 16, is the second-highest figure in Tibetan
> Buddhism." AP described this
> appearance as "an apparent sign that Beijing is
> seeking greater acceptance
> for its choice of the Panchen Lama." However, we
> know from earlier that
> Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was previously reported to be
> the Panchen Lama. Whether
> the newswires agree this is sacrilege or not, a vast
> violation of estoppel
>
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