By: SW

SW — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:55:49 +0000

Nice photos on your blog and Vancouver’s a great city -thanks for the photography lessons. I’m sorry to break it to you that the CIA connection is not a joke. How about this: The CIA Secret War in Tibet (2002) http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/concia.html And this: The CIA Secret War in Tibet (1997) http://www.timbomb.net/buddha/archive/msg00087.html. And this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=XDBriDq4LRI. As for the image of the peace-loving Tibetans, here’s a real quote: “I told them I would be
very happy to kill many Chinese,” recalled the 63-year-old rug merchant,
one of thousands of exiled Tibetans living in this picturesque Himalayan
capital. “I was very young and strong then. Very patriotic. I told them I
would even be a suicide bomber.” It’s lovely to hold innocent myths about religious figures - we all would like to believe that there is some purity to be found in the world - but when they get involved in politics, it is about power, image and deception: “Truth be told, little about the CIA’s skullduggery
in the Himalayas is a real secret anymore–except maybe to the U.S.
taxpayers who bankrolled it.” If you have time to read it, a real eye-opening analysis of Tibet myths by a Yale PhD in Political Science can be found here: Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html. Frankly I’m pretty embarrassed to have been so ignorant about all this for the last 20 years. Thank God for the internet!

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