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Thanks for your link to Students for a Free Tibet. I looked through most of the links, including the Bjork video. For the first time, I really liked her. She's not just a freak, she has a backbone and a viewpoint.

In yesterday's Wall Street Journal, there was a headline story, and several back stories including an editorial "The Cry of Tibet" by Wang Lixiong. Among his suggestions:

"It follows -- even if this is a tall order -- that the ultimate solution to the Tibet problem must be democratization of the Chinese political system itself. True autonomy cannot come any other way." (p. A 12)

Without at the very least the first amendment which guarantees the right of freedom of speech to all and not just to party members as monitored by a central committee you cannot have true pluralism.

This is why Marxism must be dismantled all over the globe. It allots too much power to a central committee which promises to wither away.

One of the problems I found with the WSJ coverage (which was extensive) is that too much emphasis was placed on the economics of the situation as a motivating factor for young Tibetans. A Tibetan Communist Party nurse named Ciji , "credited the Chinese government with bringing health and prosperity," but she then says, "My religion is Marxism."

This is what's being flouted in Tibet -- not only the right to freedom of speech, but also the right to live in a place where there has not been the establishment of one official religion. In Tibet, the official religion is Marxism.

Even the simplest countervalent stories such as repeating a Tibetan folktale can land you in prison for years.

It hasn't gotten this bad in American universities yet under the Maoist impulse of the 70s (which continues to be very strong) but that's the tendency of political correctness. The fight for freedom in Tibet is part of a global fight against Communist indoctrination that is far from over.

Go Tibet!
 

Ha! I wasn't trying to make you feel old, Ron. But it's good to know that I can. :-)

Thanks for the mention.
 

Ron,

spelling note : it's Mandelstam, or Mandelshtam.
 

Hello, I'm also known as Poetmeister. Thank you kindly for the link to Poetmeister 4 Poets! This site is in its infancy and a link from such a revered literary blogger such as yourself is primo and much appreciated, Mr. Silliman. It's via Allen Taylor's World Class Poetry blog (see above comment from Allen, World Class Poet) that I learned of your blog - which is now on my Have-To-Read list for daily consumption. It's a great site!