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Tibet: Myth and Reality

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Right On!

Yolanda O. Stern, (by email), April 08, 2008

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Dear Mr.Abaya, That Solomonic solution was truly edifying, and thereby captured the true spirit of the Olympics that “All mankind will be brothers.”

And the complete opposite was the Munich Olympics in 1970, wherein
Israeli athletes were killed by the extremist Black September. Of
course, Golda Meir, would not tolerate that kind of affront. So the
extremely super -efficient, Mossad, had to be dispatched to exact
vendetta. And there was hell to pay. The rest is history.

Auggie Surtida, (by email), Tigbauan, Iloilo, April 08, 2008

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C’mon, Tony, just be sympathetic with the cause.. Tibet is Tibet.. we'd rather be be thankful with the big name sympathizers of Free Tibet.. What independence movement would you support? Could you lend your big name to the Free Bicol Movement?

Rudy Galang, (by email), April 08, 2008

(I supported the Vietnamese struggle against the French and later the Americans. I named two of my three children in honor of the Vietnamese. I would “lend my big name” to a Fumigate Malacanang Movement. ACA)

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Dear Tony You wrote and I quote

The on-going agitation in the name of a Free Tibet, timed specifically to coincide with the run-up to the 29^th Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, is clearly meant merely to embarrass the Chinese, by spoiling their coming-out party in August 2008.

This brouhaha has all the makings of an orchestrated demolition exercise, obviously manipulated and coordinated by some high-powered public relations outfit in New York or London or Paris, and given a glossy veneer by enlisting the public support of Hollywood icons like Richard Gere and Mia Farrow.

The idea is to make sure that CNN and the BBC and the rest of international media give the Free Tibet movement the attention that the publicists are being paid to promote.

The Free Tibet Movement is not just an issue about the opposition of many free and democratic countries to China's violation of human rights but also of civil and political rights of Tibetans and Chinese citizens as well.The right of every people to condemn oppression goes beyond Richard Gere,Mia Farrow, the PR firms from New York City, London or Paris, etc. CNN and BBC investigate, write their findings and then broadcast the news ; the public respond and governments take action.Free Tibet Movement is a noble cause and an honest movement. Would you rather watch the events unfolding in Tibet in silence and apathy? The Munich Olympics, the Moscow Olympics, and LA Olympics are living testimonies that governments express concern and then act in protest.

What is happening now prior to the summer Olympics in Beijing is not a cheap act meant to embarrass the repressive Chinese government as you are made to believe.The demonstrators that lined the path of the Olympic torch as it was carried from city to city were not paid, were they? It is not the "hakot" system as practiced in the Philippines.We have to remember that Tibet, a high altitude plateau, remote from the world, that lies between China and India and inhabited by nomads, farmers, monks, and traders, had its own culture, religion, currency and no army was invaded by the Chinese in 1949. Since then China never gave up its hold on this small poorly managed but peaceful country! I wonder how Filipinos would react if Spratley or Batanes were invaded and occupied by the Chinese and the world respond to a Free 'Em Movement" Hm

Dr. Nestor P. Baylan, (by email), New York City, April 08, 2008

(So why are there no demos in support of the Uyghurs in neighboring Xinjiang, who are suffering the same repression and cultural imperialism from the Chinese as the Tibetans? It is because the predominantly Buddhist Tibetans are seen to be as docile and submissive as yaks and are therefore easier to generate sympathy for among Western liberals, in a deliberate campaign to embarrass the Chinese.

(The Uyghurs, on the other hand, are Muslims, whom Western liberals are either not sympathetic to or are downright hostile to, because of their medieval attitudes towards women and their theocratic notions of the state. No chance of using them as patsies in a deliberate campaign to embarrass the Chinese.

(The average liberal demonstrator waving Tibetan flags in London or Paris or San Francisco does not know he or she is just being used for a wider agenda of demonizing the Chinese, who are savaging the economies of the US and Europe, and are seen as the next strategic enemy of the Americans. ACA)

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II really hope you people GET THE REAL TRUTH before you write nonsense
People have been claiming being in Tibet but DO THEY/YOU KNOW THEIR CULTURE? Many of you have been repeating that you have been to china so you know the truth DO YOU KNOW THE CULTURE? WHY THE CULTURE IS FORMED LIKE THIS? Stop writing nonsense and, please get more knowledge, more more more more more more more more!!

julianelialucard@163.com, April 08, 2008

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Hi Tony, It’s indeed appreciative of you to be writing on many features outside our dear country. Perhaps, sa dami ng problema natin dito, nakakasawa na siguro na isulat, kasi wala rin mangyayari.

Anyway, thank you for giving me the copies of your articles. They are all eye-openers to me and to many of our countrymen.

Avelino Lagman Jr., (by email), April 08, 2008

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So I guess if Japan annexed Malaysia again, that would be fine by you.

Because that's the clear implication of your first paragraph.

Fred Baumann, (by email), Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, April 09, 2008

(Powerful countries have been annexing smaller and weaker ones since the beginning of recorded history, either by conquest or by occupation or by purchase. In case you have forgotten, the US annexed territory which became the states of Louisiana and Alabama in 1803, Texas in 1836, Oregon and New Mexico in 1846, Utah in 1847, California and Nevada in 1848, Kansas in 1854, South Dakota in 1861, Alaska in 1867, Hawaii in 1898, etc.

(As victors’ spoils in the Spanish-American War, the US also annexed the Philippines, Cuba, Guam and Puerto Rico in 1898. ACA)

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Mr. Abaya, I enjoyed reading your article which I found very informative. I felt like being connected to the outside world especially with all the brouhaha happening about the summer Olympics. Reading this kind of article gives us a break from the much publicized "Gloria jokes" which I found entertaining and alarming yet very saturating. Of course I feel for my beloved country which has suffered quite a lot amidst all the negative impact brought in by majority of the "politicos" whose objective is mainly for self indulgence. Kaylan pa kaya? Have a nice day!

Magno Pi, (by email), April 09, 2008

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Tony, You are getting many compliments on your position from friends where I copy you. This one occurred when my New York friend copied you to his French friend.

I attempted to e-mail the complimentary responses to your "Free Tibet….later” which I had copied to friends, who in turn copied to their friends. It seems too much of a load for the computer/internet system. I will simply add to the ovation by telling you that (as usual) you make logical and ethical sense.

Jack Sherman, (by email), April 10, 2008

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Thank you, Tony, for this very informative piece. I have
not known of this history before. Salamat. Regards and God bless.

Victor Manalac, (by email), April 10, 2008

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Dear Mr. Abaya, I read with interest your emailed column piece on TIBET. That you chose to take the Western Press to task, rather than China, on Tibet was a revelation for me. I can hardly differ with you.

I also have this often recurring experience with them--that a voice from a Third World nation is hardly given the chance to be aired, so to say.

When I do comment (blog) on some international issues, say on American politics (especially against Obama & in favor of Hillary), and insert some remarks on Philippine events & figures (particularly on Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's fascist rule) apropos to the topic at issue, these western media initially use it, publish it. But hardly has the commentary appeared in their blogsites than it is immediately struck down, deleted--upon the request of certain anonymous "complainants' for allegedly being "profane," etc., etc.

I was not born yesterday. Obviously the Arroyo regime has its censors manning the ramparts of the Internet fort 24/7, such that any (blogger's) comment, implied or clear-cut, that implicates them, that exposes their fascist acts against the Filipino people, is requested to be deleted. At once, the western press acquiesce.

Yesterday, I blogged this piece, this commentary of mine to the WASHINGTON POST's section under the bylines of a certain Ignatius. It initially appeared, but today it has been deleted. Gloria's hitmen went to work, obviously, and succeeded in pulling it out.

But we & the sufering Fiipino people need articles like this one, modesty aside, like we used to have in our "Mosquito Press" days (in addition to the Malaya efforts, during the latter years of the strongman Marcos, of Press Icon Joe Burgos, whose son, JONAS, ironically, has become a hapless victim of this fascist regime--hindi napatay nung Martial Law, tapos ngayon pa nabiktima, baka napatay na nga, under gloria's rule-- which came to power, ironically, under the banner of an alleged People Power action).

Jennifer Potenciano, (by email), April 12, 2008

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Tibet: Myth and Reality

The CIA is everywhere - Tibet, Afghanistan, Iraq, S America, etc, etc. Half
the time, they create the problems for others...

by Foster Stockwell

Western concepts of Tibet embrace more myth than reality. The idea that
Tibet is an oppressed nation composed of peaceful Buddhists who never did
anyone any harm distorts history. In fact the belief that the Dalai Lama is
the leader of world Buddhism rather than being just the leader of one sect
among more than 1,700 "Living Buddhas" of this unique Tibetan form of
the faith displays a parochial view of world religions.

The myth, of course, is an outgrowth of Tibet's former inaccessibility,
which has fostered illusions about this mysterious land in the midst of the
Himalayan Mountains -- illusions that have been skillfully promoted for
political purposes by the Dalai Lama's advocates. The myth will inevitably
die, as all myths do, but until this happens, it would be wise to learn a
few useful facts about this area of China.

First, Tibet has been a part of China ever since it was merged into that
country in 1239, when the Mongols began creating the Yuan Dynasty
(1271-1368). This was before Marco Polo reached China from Europe and more
than two centuries before Columbus