China Refuses New Hello Dalai
I have had it with China! I know they say that you can imprison a body but not a soul, but the Chinese do not accept this proposition. Having started with bodies, births, and thoughts, they are now asserting their sole control of body and soul.
I tried to be tolerant and accepting when they shot artillery into Quemoy and Matsu in 1960. I felt their pain when we pretended not to recognize them and would only do business with the Chinese of Formosa/Taiwan. Truly, they must have felt dissed for us not to take official notice of a billion or so Chinese there on the mainland. I can accept that with their size they have to be kind of strict. Anarchy on the scale of the Chinese population would be ugly.
When they forced women to have abortions, I think they went way over the line. When they ran over protestors in Tiananmen Square, they broke trust with the West. When they continue to cruelly evict people from their homes to build offices and malls, it is just wrong. When they poison the air and water, they are killing their own people in the name of progress.
Now they have, either through greed or design, set about poisoning the rest of us. They started with our precious pets with toxically adulterated proteins, and then moved up to us humans with the exportation of filthy farm-raised seafood. Not content with us and our pets, they have escalated to our children—which some, though not all, Americans hold in esteem even higher than our pets.
Their restrictions on religion are famous—actually infamous. Christians are not allowed to worship freely. They have tried to co-opt Roman Catholicism by attempting one of their famous copyright infringement techniques and counterfeited a phony church under their own control. We all know of their invasion of Tibet and persecution of Tibetan Buddhists and the exile of the Dali Lama.
It is one thing to restrict people’s religious lives. It is one thing to restrict people’s travel. It is one thing to restrict births. But it is quite another, and totally unacceptable, to restrict the People’s Right to reincarnate.
China passed a law to restrict the right of Buddhists to be reincarnated in China, or Chinese held territory, without the prior consent of the Chinese government. This is designed so that they will do with the Tibetan Buddhists what they’ve been trying to do with Roman Catholics. They want to name their own Dalai Lama when this one leaves his body. By making it against the law for him to reincarnate without their permission, they are asserting their right not to recognize the next Dalai Lama and will try to name their own—as they have tried to name their own Bishops.
My fury is not so much at their ridiculous laws and declarations, nor with their silly and futile attempts at control of the divine or spiritual. They will certainly not succeed any more than any communist regimes have in outlawing God and religion. What pushed me over the line and ready to chuck the Peking Olympics is that this kind of proclamation, trying to control by law the placement of the soul, is not simply the platonic form of governmental over-reaching, it is a naked attack on writers of satire everywhere. How can you exaggerate and lampoon this kind of chutzpah?!
The Chinese have long kept imprisoned the Dalai Lama's/ Tibetan religious leader's choice of successor (deemed a reincarnation by certain signs that only trained monks can discern), a boy called Panchen Lama. They have failed to get the Tibetans to accept the phony, pro-Chinese Dalai Lama they found and have tried to foist upon the people.
There should be a lot more attention paid to the extreme injustices of Chinese society, domestic and foreign. Another thing: we note that the official in charge of poisoned food was executed about a month after being found guilty, and the guy responsible for toy recalls committed suicide before the same could happen to him.
Taking responsibility by the government would be one thing, but executing individuals in an attempt to wash their hands of deep-seated blame, is evil.
They execute thousands of people annually, including for petty crimes and political offenses, to make money be selling their organs.
But American businesspeople -- and others across the world -- ignore all this in hopes of getting access to the markets of their billion plus people. We have to stop importing their goods willy-nilly and driving up our trade deficit, to take a stand.