Arrested in China

1. TW
   September 4th, 2008 at 7:11 pm

   He’s an idiot.

   Free the Natives in your own country first, dummy.

2. Moon
   September 4th, 2008 at 7:55 pm

   Really, what an attention whore. Oooh, look at me! I’m important! Sheesh.

3. tian
   September 4th, 2008 at 8:12 pm

   What did he expect? Hello, you are in China, you are under different set of law now, buddy.

   I am also find it interesting that most Pro-Tibet activists have always focused on what the Chinese government have done wrong, yet there is no mentioning of any thing they have done right.

   One would most likely to see automobile bumper stickers that say “Free Tibet”, yet no stickers that say

   “Ask a Tibetan about Polyandry”

   or

   “Tibetan, Who’s Your Daddy?!”

   Polyandry in Tibet is a traditional marriage practice that has existed within a milieu whereby a woman could have several husbands; a father and his sons could share the same wife, and a mother and her daughters could share the same husband, or the daughters themselves could share a husband.

   Think of this way:

   Would Americans would be so quick jumping on the bandwagon if a group of native american polygamists in U.S. decided to break away from Federal Union? Would U.S. Federal government sit around and do nothing?

4. Mr. Binky
   September 4th, 2008 at 9:31 pm

   wtf is with these comments?

5. Darren Grant
   September 4th, 2008 at 9:56 pm

   “I am also find it interesting that most Pro-Tibet activists have always focused on what the Chinese government have done wrong, yet there is no mentioning of any thing they have done right.”

   Riiight.. the big bad polyandrists marching the countryside torturing and shooting civilians. Those the ones you mean? Sheez, some perspective & respect please.

6. TW
   September 4th, 2008 at 9:58 pm

   Binky:

   this is the reality, my friend.

   This is where the world is headed - so go with it.

7. will shetterly
   September 4th, 2008 at 10:28 pm

   Freeing Tibet’s slaves was kind of nice of China. A Tibetan named Wangchuk told a Washington Post reporter, “I may not be free under Chinese Communism, but I am better off than when I was a slave.”

8. ted
   September 4th, 2008 at 11:06 pm

   Good old China, always getting the bad rap.

   Yeah, the guy’s a douchebag. Nobody cares about Tibet, after all. But what’s with the polyandry comments? Makes it sound like something bad…

9. SiteSeer
   September 4th, 2008 at 11:20 pm

   Tibet = money & international fame, a slap on the wrist when caught & the backing of the US gov’t

   Native causes = no money, too much guilt & no easy solution in sight with absolutely no support from the colonial gov’t

   Such tough choices for the career activist …

10. will shetterly
    September 5th, 2008 at 12:16 am

    Ted, you can find many documents from Tibetan women who say that having to serve as many as five husbands is not a great time.

11. Shprocket
    September 5th, 2008 at 12:27 am

    Tibet has been an acknowledged part of China for a long, long time. The Chinese government granted them autonomy until the 1950s, but the Tibetans voluntarily took part in Chinese government functions like the signing of the new constitution after Mao’s revolution, showing that they were indeed voluntarily part of China.

    Before the Dalai Lama left Tibet in the ’50s, he personally owned more than 2,000 slaves. Before the Chinese took away Tibet’s autonomy and chased the Dalai Lama out, most of Tibet’s population were slaves who lived and went untortured and unmutilated only at the pleasure of their lama masters. There were taxes on dancing, on drumming, on traveling, on looking for work, etc. etc. etc. etc. ohmygod etc., and tax debts were inherited from generation to generation until the interest made them so onerous that they couldn’t possibly ever be paid, at which point the family became slaves to the lamas.

    Since the Dalai Lama left Tibet, the CIA has been paying him quite a lot of money every year. The man does a good job of mouthing platitudes about peace and love and harmony, but he’s nothing but a paid CIA propagandist.

    All you activists out there: Get some RELIABLE information before you go making asses of yourselves protesting something you know nothing about. It’s right to be skeptical about Chinese propaganda, but you must also question the propaganda handed to you by the CIA-backed Dalai Lama.

12. The Planes
    September 5th, 2008 at 2:55 am

    Sure, I dig that. I definitely don’t want to say that anything is always the case. I enjoyed the article

13. Vinterdekk
    September 5th, 2008 at 5:22 am

    If you do what he did, you gotta know how to face the consequenses.

14. Patrick Nice
    September 5th, 2008 at 7:12 am

    James is simply a silly hippie.

15. Blacknimbus
    September 5th, 2008 at 9:31 am

    Apologists for Communist China…what a shock. Chances are you wouldn’t even be reading Neatorama after the censors got their hands on it.

    Ask the 30,000 farmers who’s lives are ruined because the government redirected all their water into Beijing for the Olympics. Do a little research on slave labour in China before you start touting the ‘good it’s done’.

16. Christophe
    September 5th, 2008 at 1:07 pm

    I’m with Blacknimbus.
    We may dislike Powderly, but Communist China is still a country to free.

17. CheeseDuck
    September 5th, 2008 at 1:55 pm

    Wow. Have any of you Free Tibet people been to Tibet before and after the Chinese helped it out?

18. Moon
    September 5th, 2008 at 3:43 pm

    You could also ask the people who USED to live by Mono Lake how they felt when Los Angeles stole all their water.

19. Darren Grant
    September 6th, 2008 at 1:39 am

    “All you activists out there: Get some RELIABLE information before you go making asses of yourselves protesting something you know nothing about. It’s right to be skeptical about Chinese propaganda, but you must also question the propaganda handed to you by the CIA-backed Dalai Lama.”

    Good advice about questioning motives, but I think the cia link is stale news.

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