Originally posted by D.E.M.
...All the attention focused elsewhere keeps the people at home from watching while we lose our own way of life.

I think this right here says all that needs to be said. While I'm all for a free Tibet, I'm also quite enthusiastic about my own freedoms. Honestly, I see little difference between the Chinese and US governments. The biggest difference is China is fairly "in your face" and up front about it's stance on these matters, where as our government would prefer to slip it's agenda in under our noses without our noticing.

Every man (and woman) wants freedom. The ability to decide for yourself the course of your own destiny is the most cherished ideal in all of creation.


The idea that a few can dictate to the many what will become of them, what will be done with them, and what they will be used for is the most horrendous abomination and affront to the essence of humanity, of nature, it makes me nauseous to contemplate it.


I see that those who exercise control over others justify it and excuse it by saying to themselves that we are not the same, that there are differences among us, and that some are meant to rule because they are of superior stock...


Well I ask those same people to surrender of themselves the power that the system holds. And measure then the power their "superior" stock wields over the masses.


But it is only by the fact that a beast which can experience only hunger... devours so much.




[edit on 7-4-2008 by ianr5741]