Fwd: Chewing the Buddha: Bush at the Olympics

[kinzokutaka]

Chewing the Buddha
Bush at the Olympics
By Greg Palast

For Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

18 August 2008

Lhasa, Tibet - China's secret police are just terrible at keeping themselves secret.

The detective, dressed in her business suit and pumps appropriate to urban Lhasa, did not expect to be trailing my wife and me up the steep hillside to a

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[copperpot]

greg palast is my hero!

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LJ-Cut

[kinzokutaka]

*grin* Yeah, I figured I need to go back and LJ-cut this when I have access to LJ. Usually I would just blockquote a small portion and include a link to the article, but they've blocked LJ at work, so I'm experimenting with posting from email.

Unfortunately I don't know yet how to LJ-cut from email, but next time I'm in front of a non-work computer I'll read over the email-post FAQ again.

Sorry for spamming your friends page! B^)

Re: LJ-Cut

[copperpot]

yes, u'll have to excuse me, i'm just so excited to learn how to stop the madness myself with the wondrous lj cut. i don't even know of this winsome method of email posting u speak of. i will have to look into it! cheers!

Re: LJ-Cut

[kinzokutaka]

*chuckle*

[virginia_fell]

Thank you for posting this.

Thank you

[kinzokutaka]

No problem. Hope I didn't overly spam your friends page...

[hanepoo]

Fascinating article. Having just returned, the silence in China about Tibet was deafening. A few Chinese people asked me what I thought of the China and Tibet issue. Because I was afraid it was secret police, I said only that it is a very complex issue and I am not educated enough to have an opinion.

But if China offered Tibet the rights they offer the mainland Chinese (and even HK residents) that sure would be a step in the right direction...

the silence in China

[kinzokutaka]

Wow. I didn't really worry so much about secret police when I was there, but then again, I mostly just hung out with students. I didn't really feel much difference, politically, until I asked my host about the tanks in Tiananmen Square during the June Fourth Incident, and being met by a blank stare and a sincere belief that there were no tanks in Tiananmen Square during the June Fourth Incident. Since this was from a learned educator at the Shanghai Normal University, it really shook me up.

Re: the silence in China

[hanepoo]

To be fair, I was there around Olympics time. They were on a constant watch for protesters.

Re: the silence in China

[kinzokutaka]

Yeah. I can understand how that would be much more of a clamp-down atmosphere. We could mock the Chinese government for it, but apparently here in the US the police are being warned about protesters at the Democratic national convention who might have terrorist materials like *bicycles,* so I guess no stone-casting here...