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Headline: “China accuses Dalai Lama of CIA links”
This really is one of those headlines that make you wonder if reporters from The Onion have secretly spent the last few years working their way up into key positions at major news organizations across the globe. They’ve been waiting patiently, biding their time until the culture of fear was so strong that they could slip in those ridiculous gems we love them for. Well, unfortunately for my overactive imagination, this one’s real. (link)
“An official Chinese commentary accused the Dalai Lama on Wednesday of collaborating with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, rejecting the Tibetan leader’s overtures and casting a shadow over fence-mending talks.“
Am I the only picturing a ‘Secret Asian Man’ spoof? Maybe him and The Hoff could get together, collaborate a little.
SW Said,
March 21, 2008 @ 9:55 am
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!