I haven’t really been paying much attention to the Tibet story. I’m willing to believe that Xeni and/or the western news media have important details wrong. It happens — people screw up sometimes. Both bloggers and mainstream news agencies occasionally get stories wrong.

But you haven’t made your case. You haven’t provided links to sources that back up your version of events. And to make matters worse, you started off by accusing Xeni of being a propagandist.

(And no, those photos you linked to don’t count as sources. They show dead bodies and a damaged bus, but there’s no context. I can’t tell how the damage was done, or by who.)

If the media is getting so much wrong, how about having China let them into Tibet to clear up all these misunderstandings.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080318/D8VG3QDG0.html

First, get my name right.

Second – A lot of times people speak up when they cannot tolerate anymore. Then he should stop acting like a dick if he’s so sincere and concerned. I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that there’s a good reason that you are unable to differentiate between a sincere post and a troll post. Tone matters in trolling. His tone is deliberately designed to offend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKLKMAr3sos

Did anyone notice that the scenario he laid down so firmly in his first message was not only fraudulent — propaganda indeed — but something he could not have arrived at just by collating media reports?

Kid, your message has been suspended (not disemvowelled) for its sheer disingenuousness, and for one other characteristic error which I won’t identify because I want you to make it again if you come back here under another name.

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Guys, I don’t think we’re getting astroturfed by the Chinese. I think this is a domestic product.

The Chinese lit into the Tibetans three days after Bush ill-advisedly took China off the human rights blacklist. That was blatant. China owns a huge amount of our debt, and right now the U.S. financial markets are frighteningly unstable because Bush and his cronies, supporters, and beneficiaries have gnawed the economy hollow. They’re trying desperately to hold off the collapse until Bush is out of office, or at least until after the elections.

General public indignation on behalf of the Tibetans would be so very inconvenient at this moment.

(found on http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2008/03/12/companies-enabling-censorship/)

with all the calls for boycotting china, shouldn’t we take consumer action against these companies?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/world/asia/20tibet.html?_r=1&ex=1363665600&en=d6ebd0d56e51e3ae&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin

-live and direct from Beijing

I know a bit about the leaders of Chinese government from studying history and current events. Loosing face in the eyes of the rest of the world, and being laughed fills them with rage. They’re insecure, and can’t really handle criticism. And god knows they crave respectability and recognition on the world stage.

So it’s up to the rest of the world to shame them. They deserve it.

As for the “oh, but the US is bad too” crowd, I invite you to make mock of the US and our ‘leadership’ as often as you want. It’s one thing we’re good at accepting. Unlike the Chinese government. They’re afraid of being shamed. So afraid they’ll kill to prevent it.

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Pity about all the dead people though.

Interview with Geoffrey York, The Globe And Mail Beijing Bereau chief.

You’re a professional troll. You signed up for BB just to troll this thread. You are dead to us.

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