When I began this blog in 2001, I was appalled by President Bush's headlong rush to an illegal war (we were not in fact under attack). As time wore on and Bush began his assault on the Constitution and any people bold enough to criticize, I believed that "the republic is endangered more by actions of our own government than by those of any terrorist." With the election of a high-minded, compassionate, intelligent man like Barack Obama, my fears have ceased.
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United for Peace
Sunday, September 18, 2005
The Office of Tibet (government in exile) issued a white paper replying to someof the claims of China about Tibet (that China "owns" the country and has for hundreds of years, that Tibet welcomed their invasion, etc.)
Some ways you can make your voice heard to support Tibet
Copyright © 2001-03 Pam Shorey
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Chinese colonialism over Tibet
The Office of Tibet (government in exile) issued a white paper replying to someof the claims of China about Tibet (that China "owns" the country and has for hundreds of years, that Tibet welcomed their invasion, etc.)
Colonialism is characterised by a number of important elements, all of which are abundantly present in China's rule over Tibet. The most common characteristics of colonialism are:
- domination by an alien power;
- acquisition of control through military force, unequal treaty; *frequent insistence that the colony is an integral part of the "mother" state;
- maintenance of control through instruments of military or administrative and economic power in the hands of the colonial power;
- active or passive rejection of alien domination by the colonised people;
- suppression, by force if necessary, of persons opposing colonial rule;
- chauvinism and discrimination;
- the imposition of alien cultural, social and ideological values claimed to be "civilising";
- the imposition of economic development programmes and the exploitation of natural resources of the colony, primarily for the benefit of the colonial power;
- promotion of population transfer of citizens of the metropolitan state into the colony and other forms of demographic manipulation;
- disregard for the natural environment in the colony; and, in most cases
- an obsessive desire to hold on to the colony despite the political and economic cost.
Some ways you can make your voice heard to support Tibet
Palema
9:04 PM
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