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Originally Posted by Ray
With due regards to your opinion, Chinese Communists were no better than making the people slaves! The diktat of the State was supreme over the individual and that is slavery and psychological torture and a total insult to being a human.
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Sir,
The GPCR did more damage than the Dali Lama could ever do. There are times when the CCP is the worst thing that ever happened to Tibet. None of it is justified nor am I touting its virtues. My point, however, that there is bad blood between the Dali Lama and the CCP but not all of it is the CCP's fault.
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Originally Posted by Blademaster
That would be something if he used the money given by the Tibetan people to buy those things but another thing to ride in a Rolls Royce or wear a Rolex if those things were freely given by well wishers.
After all, the Catholic Pope has a Ferrari.  Does that mean he is trodding on the backs of the masses of people today? |
The point is in reference to what the Americans want to see and does not want to see. The idea of a poor Buddist Monk is what they want to see and ignore the rest.