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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
12. That is a tasteless and sick joke.
Wed Jun 1, 2016, 08:17 AM
Jun 2016

He would go to jail faster than you can say "Panchen Lama".

Speaking of which:
The chinese government has proclaimed that THE CHINESE BUREAUCRACY decides who becomes the next Dalai Lama when this one dies.
And purely out of coincidence, the chinese government kidnapped the Panchen Lama, the highest ranking Lama after the Dalai Lama, in 1995 and installed their own choice as the new Panchen Lama.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedhun_Choekyi_Nyima



Do you know what would happen to the Dalai Lama if he returned to Tibet?
He would be imprisoned and forgotten.
Just as the chinese population has little to no idea what the Tiananmen-massacre was.
Just as people have already forgotten the kidnapping of the Panchen Lama.
Just as the chinese government is trying to erase from history the famine and the millions of deaths that were caused by Mao.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

How would this "forgetting" work?
This is China.
If you speak about an inconvenient topic, you will be denounced as sowing discord.
If you continue to speak out, they simply throw you in jail and ruin your life.
We are not talking about a country with an independent justice-system here.
We are talking about a country with massive ever-penetrating censorship.
A country whose political and administrative structure has been penetrated from bottom to top by corrupt oligarchic and neo-aristocratic cabals.
A country where the courts have the explicit mandate to further the political goals of the communist party.
This. Is. China.

China has made plans to install a database to register, control and punish every single citizen, "1984"-style. The only thing that is holding them back is technical difficulties.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34592186
THIS. IS. CHINA.




And now tell me what the Dalai Lama could do for Tibet by returning to Tibet.

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