Comments on: Tibet http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2008/03/15/4053/tibet Peter Van Dijck's weblog Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:43:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Michael http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2008/03/15/4053/tibet#comment-143622 Michael Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:14:28 +0000 http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2008/03/15/4053/tibet#comment-143622 In 1956, the Russians crushed the Hungarian rising because they were willing to kill lightly armed or unarmed people in the streets of their cities. The Soviet system fell only when the leadership found it could no longer find the inner will to shoot unarmed people down. That was in 1989, the same year when the Chinese leadership demonstrated its lack of compunction in Tibet and in Beijing. We must be careful what we wish for. The justification that comes through someone else's blood is not really ours. It should not be easy for any of us watching this intermittently over the Internet to hope for more of this carnage. If the people of Tibet take this destiny on themselves, so be it, and God be with them. The Chinese who do this are assuming a terrible karma that will pursue them relentlessly in this life and all of those to come. What does it do to one's soul when you become the kind of person who will shoot someone for this? In 1956, the Russians crushed the Hungarian rising because they were willing to kill lightly armed or unarmed people in the streets of their cities. The Soviet system fell only when the leadership found it could no longer find the inner will to shoot unarmed people down. That was in 1989, the same year when the Chinese leadership demonstrated its lack of compunction in Tibet and in Beijing.

We must be careful what we wish for. The justification that comes through someone else’s blood is not really ours. It should not be easy for any of us watching this intermittently over the Internet to hope for more of this carnage. If the people of Tibet take this destiny on themselves, so be it, and God be with them. The Chinese who do this are assuming a terrible karma that will pursue them relentlessly in this life and all of those to come. What does it do to one’s soul when you become the kind of person who will shoot someone for this?

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