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10-19-2007, 03:28 AM
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The Dalai Lama. Post #21 | | Registered User
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Originally posted by Sir Bert Preast:
The man's a git. So can anyone tell me why the US has given him this medal? Is it really solely because they love medals and annoying the Chinese?
| Thursday is medal day here.
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10-19-2007, 10:06 AM
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The Dalai Lama. Post #22 | | Registered User
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Originally posted by Sir Bert Preast:
In Tibet under his rule the vast majority of the population were either slaves or debt-bonded serfs. Outrageous taxation reduced everyone who wasn't a large landowner or part of the theocracy to that level. There were no jails, if you broke the law they cut bits off you. His best mate and tutor was a sergeant in the SS.
Just little things like that.
| Isnt that where Bush is aiming? So perfectly understandable the Dalai Lama was given the medal.
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10-19-2007, 11:25 AM
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The Dalai Lama. Post #23 | | Joe Blow
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Down with this sort of thing.
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10-19-2007, 11:31 AM
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The Dalai Lama. Post #24 | | Newb
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The image that the Lama has tried to peddle in the West, is that life under his rule in Tibet would be to the great benefit of its citizens.
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10-19-2007, 11:34 AM
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The Dalai Lama. Post #25 | | Joe Blow
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That's what makes him such a git.
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10-19-2007, 11:41 AM
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The Dalai Lama. Post #26 | | Joe Blow
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Originally posted by Sir Bert Preast:
Down with this sort of thing.
| Careful now
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10-19-2007, 11:41 AM
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The Dalai Lama. Post #27 | | Newb
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tanman007:
Nice over simplification. One of his tutors was a Austrian who just happened to be in the SS, he admitted he joined because that was the vogue thing.
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Heinrich Harrer? He sais his joining was 'a stupid mistake' in hindsight, but he has never said he wasn't all for it at the time.
Not that that means he spread Nazi ideals to the little Lama though.
Anway, Tibet was awful pre-chinese occupation, and it's awful now. Yes it should be 'freed' but under democracy, not the Lama's dictatorship.
Lama, Lama, Duck.
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10-19-2007, 11:48 AM
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The Dalai Lama. Post #28 | | Joe Blow
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Probably the best option is a free, democratic Tibet, with the Dalai Lama as a constitutional monarch/theocract.
Obviously not going to happen for a good while though.
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10-19-2007, 11:59 AM
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The Dalai Lama. Post #29 | | Joe Blow
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The monarch thing is a good idea, monarchs being also the head of the church is hardly unprecedented. But realistically I'd not trust the church, and the divisions between the theocrats and commies mean one side is bound to get the hump.
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