GENOCIDE AGAINST PEOPLE OF COLOR

CHINESE GENOCIDE AGAINST PEOPLE OF COLOR!
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GOOD MORNING FLINT! BY Terry Bankert 3/16/08
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BOYCOTT OLYMPICS!...IT’S STARTING
Tibet group: Prince to boycott Games -
CNN.com http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/...
Britain's Prince Charles will not attend the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing -- and a group that campaigns against China's human rights record said Monday that the future monarch's decision was in solidarity with its aims.[S]

THERE IS A STRONG HISTORY OF POLITICAL ACTION AT THE OLYMPICS

Human rights groups have in recent months urged the IOC and governments to act tough on the issue towards China. The incidents in Tibet may lead to boycott calls. [e] IOC= International Olympic Committee, just about the most elite group on the planet,but thats another story.[trb]

The president of the International Olympic Committee rejected the idea of boycotting the Summer Games in Beijing over China's crackdown in Tibet, saying it would only hurt athletes.[USA] Its would cost the IOC too much.[trb]

NO OLYMPICS, some demand Nearly 2,000 Tibetan exiles held a protest rally Sunday in Dharmsala, India, the headquarters of Tibet's government-in-exile. They waved Tibetan flags, burned Chinese flags, and held posters that said "No killings in Tibet, No Olympics in China."[nrp]

BROTHERHOOD OF COUNTRIES

"The Olympics must be held in an atmosphere of true brotherhood," EU Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner Franco Frattini told Italy's ANSA news agency. "Otherwise this feast of sport would be seriously at risk."[usa]

FOUR PREVIOUS OLYMPIC BOYCOTTS

At least four major boycotts have occurred in Olympic history, but they mostly resulted in undue punishment for athletes, said David Wallechinsky, an author and vice president of the International Society of Olympic Historians.[usa]

1980 BOYCOTT

The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott of the Moscow Olympics was a part of a package of actions to protest against the December 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.[w]

BOYCOTT NOT THE BEST POLICY SAYS IOC

Hamburg - A boycott of the Beijing Olympics is not the right measure to deal with China in the wake of violence in Tibet, International Olympic Committee vice-president Thomas Bach of Germany said on Saturday. "A boycott is the wrong way," said Bach. But the IOC top official also said in the direction of China that "violence is always a setback." [e]

PEOPLE ARE DYING IN LHASA

The statement came the day after violence in the regional capital Lhasa left at least 10 people dead, according to Chinese state television. The Tibetan government-in-exile said unconfirmed reports spoke of 100 people killed in the pro-independence protests. [e]

TRAVEL WARNINGS

However, the United States and other countries have issued travel warnings about Tibet, with the US embassy in Beijing describing the situation there as “unstable”.[a] Several European countries including Sweden, Italy and France advised their citizens travelling in China to keep away from demonstrations and stay out of Lhasa until things return to normal.[a]

NO OUTCRY?

The violence erupted just two weeks before China's Summer Olympic celebrations kick off with the start of the torch relay, which passes through Tibet. China is gambling that its crackdown will not draw an international outcry over human rights violations that could lead to boycotts of the Olympics.[nrp] Take Action: Support the Protests in Tibet!
http://actionnetwork.org/campa...

Hundreds of Tibetans inside Tibet have carried out protest demonstrations over the past two days, marking the 49th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising. Protests of this scale are rare inside Tibet because of the absolute lack of political space. ... PLEASE !!!!!... PLEASE !!!!!...[s]

SYDNEY

Police used capsicum spray and batons in a chaotic battle with highly agitated pro-Tibetan protesters outside the Chinese consulate in Sydney today.[A2]

Up to seven people were arrested after a running melee outside the consulate sparked by reports from Chinese controlled Tibet of deaths in some of the fiercest pro-independence riots in decades.[A2]

PROTEST OF THE SOVIET INVASION OF AFGHANISTAN-

Jimmy got it right! Though the Games have aimed to be an arena free of politics, the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan spurred United States President Jimmy Carter to issue an ultimatum that the United States would boycott the Moscow Olympics if Soviet troops had not withdrawn from the country by 12:01 A.M. Eastern Standard Time on February 20, 1980; the official announcement confirming the boycott was made on March 21. [w]

WHAT HAPPENED IN 1980

The United States was joined in the boycott by some other populous countries - including Japan, West Germany, China and Canada. Some of these countries competed at the Olympic Boycott Games at Philadelphia. Notably, the United Kingdom, France, and Greece supported the boycott but allowed their athletes to participate if they wished (the U.S. did not). The United Kingdom and France sent a much smaller delegation of athletes than usual. Nevertheless, the delegation of the United Kingdom was the largest among Western Europe, with 170 athletes applying to compete.[1] Spain, Italy, Sweden, Iceland and Finland were other principal nations representing western Europe,[1] though Italian athletes belonging to military corps did not attend the Games, due to the government's support of the boycott. The boycott severely affected many events.[w]

At the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, athletes from a number of countries, including Australia, Andorra, Belgium, Denmark, France, United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Puerto Rico, San Marino, Spain, and Switzerland, marched under the Olympic Flag, instead of their national flags. Moreover, although the government of New Zealand officially supported the boycott, four athletes from that country competed independently and marched under their NOC's flag [1]. Altogether, the athletes of 16 countries were not represented by their national flags, and the Olympic Anthem replaced their national anthems at medal ceremonies. As a result, there were a few ceremonies where three Olympic Flags were raised. [w] Even though only 81 nations participated, more world records were set in Moscow than in 1976 in Montreal.[w] 1984 OLYMPICS The 1984 Summer Olympics took place in Los Angeles, United States of America, with 14 nations missing due to the Soviet-led boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics, and several others for other reasons. On May 8, 1984 the Soviet Union issued a statement, that the country would boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles due to "chauvinistic sentiments and an anti-Soviet hysteria being whipped up in the United States".[2] 13 Soviet allies joined the boycott. Iran was the only country to boycott both Moscow and Los Angeles.[w] 1959 UPRISING The latest unrest began Monday on the anniversary of a 1959 uprising against Chinese rule. Tibet was effectively independent for decades before communist troops entered in 1950.[nrp]

WHY ARE THESE PEOPLE SO UPSET

( a Face Book Poster wrote)Rev. Mitchell, who was not very familiar with the Tibetan situation at the time, asked me for more information.[s2]

SUBJUGATION OF PEOPLE OF COLOR

I provided it, stressing among other factors, the racist nature of the Chinese rule, which involves the subjugation of an ethnically and culturally distinct dark-complexioned people by a light-skinned oppressor. Many people see the Tibetans only as Asians and do not know that they qualify as “people of color.” Indeed I’ve seen photographs of Tibetan nomads, who spend a lot of time in the Himalayan sun, who are darker than many African-Americans. Many people have swallowed the imperialist and Maoist fiction that the Tibetans are Chinese. In fact, there is literature that shows that what is now Tibet existed before China.[S2]

TIBETANS ARE NOT CHINESE

And what may be the most spiritually and politically explosive cultural reality derives from the fact that the Tibetan language is in no way related to the Chinese languages. Tibetan is derived from Aramaic, the language of Jesus. And if you read a paperback by Elizabeth Clare Prophet called “The Lost Years of Jesus”, chronicling the approximately 18 years of His earthly life not accounted for in the Bible, and you read UP FRONT News, it emerges that it was Jesus who brought Aramaic to Tibet.[S2]

As I see it, the fact that Tibet is perhaps the world’s only pacifist nation, led by a monk who preaches non-violence, accurately described as both “the roof of the world” and “the most religious country in the world”, is no accident, considering Who lived there. My own view, unsubstantiated by available writings, is that there is a genealogical relationship between Jesus and the Tibetans, most directly with the Dalai Lamas.[S2]

ATTACK ON TIBETIANS IS AN ATTACK ON CHRISTIANITY

As far as I am concerned, the Chinese Communist attempt to destroy Tibet is essentially an attempt to kill Jesus – again. It was Mao who during his meeting with the Dalai Lama in 1954 told the Tibetan leader that “religion is poison.” And that was because the pathologically megalomaniacal and racist Mao considered himself to be God.[S2]

CHINESE GENOCIDE

In a 1993 interview with me for an article that I was writing for Downtown Magazine (no longer published) Rev. Mitchell labeled the Chinese Occupation as “Genocide” and characterized Chinese actions as “an attack on people who live their faith.”[S2]

DARFUR, TIBET WHATS THE DIFFERENCE?

Many black leaders have spoken eloquently about the Genocide in Darfur. It is a fact that Communist China, in its lust for Sudanese oil, is aiding and abetting the Sudanese government’s complicity in the Genocide. Presidential candidate Bill Richardson during a candidates debate, citing Darfur, suggested that the 2008 Olympic games should be pulled from China. John Edwards, in a talk at Strata in NYC on June 22, voiced his agreement with me that “moral leadership” requires opposition to the Genocide not only in Darfur but also in Tibet. His comment of course went unreported in the mainstream media. I had a chance to talk for a few minutes about Tibet directly recently with Barack Obama’s wife Michelle at her talk in Harlem who, with State Senator Bill Perkins standing next to us, listened carefully and took some UP FRONT News articles to show her husband.[S2]

I’ve spoken with and given UP FRONT News articles on Tibet to, among others, Rev. Al Sharpton and City Councilman Charles Barron.[S2]

HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS OR A KILLING MACHINE?

While many politicians have been critical of China’s “human rights violations” in Tibet and elsewhere, when it comes to going after the US-China corporate cash machine and the Beijing Olympics, they get very timid. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, a soldier in China-friendly Hillary Clinton’s campaign wehrmacht, at my urging in 2001 introduced Resolution #802 denouncing the Chinese for their actions in Tibet. The resolution passed unanimously – and had no effect. Quinn has refused to answer my calls and my e-mail urging a resolution calling for the removal of the 2008 Olympics from China. Fortunately City Councilman Tony Avella (D.-Queens), who thinks he would be a much better mayor then the pro-real estate developer Quinn (I agree) sees things differently and has let me know officially that he is interested in doing something meaningful in the Council about the Tibet Genocide/China Olympics issue. Christine Quinn, who very, very, very much wants to be mayor, has angered a great many African-Americans with her arrogant denial of self-determination rights to the Bedford-Stuyvesant community with respect to the community’s clear with to rename part of Gates Avenue after Sonny Abubadika Carson. Ms. Quinn has, in the Sonny Carson and Tibet Genocide/China Olympic issue shown her true “colors”, as it were.[S2]

Whether we realize it or not, Tibet is, among other things, a black issue.[S2] 1. SEEhttp://tomsupfrontnews.blogspot.com/2007/07/chinese-communist-genocide-in-tibet.html [S2]

AND CONDY SAYS......

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on China "to exercise restraint in dealing with these protests," while the State Department issued a travel alert for Americans in the region. Her statement also called for China to release monks and others jailed for protesting.[nrp]

THOSE MONKS AGAIN

Initially the protests were led by Buddhist monks demanding the release of other detained monks. Their demands spiraled to include cries for Tibet's independence and turned violent Friday when police tried to stop a group of protesting monks. Pent-up grievances against Chinese rule came to the fore, as Tibetans directed their anger against Chinese and their shops, hotels and other businesses.[nrp]

VESTED INTERESTS SAY NO TO BOYCOTT

IOC boss Jacques Rogge said in the past that a boycott of the August 8-24 Games would not solve any problems and that China has made improvements in human rights issues. [e]

IOC vice president Thomas Bach said the committee will speak with China about human rights and condemned the crackdown, saying "every use of violence is a step backwards."[si]

CHINA SAYS..HOW IS OUR PR WORKING?

The Chinese government is hoping a successful Olympics will boost its popularity at home as well as its image abroad. But Beijing's hosting of the Olympics has already attracted scrutiny of China's human rights record and its pollution problems.[nrp]

HAVE YOU SHOWN YOUR SOLIDARITY TODAY

The Sydney protest was aimed at showing solidarity for the Tibetans who were under siege by the Chinese authorities, she said.[A2]

AUSSIES LEAD THE WORLD...

The Australian government has urged China to act with restraint and allow for peaceful protests in Tibet.[A2] The protests, which have spread into China, came amid a growing international campaign by Tibetans to challenge Beijing’s rule of the Himalayan region ahead of the Olympic Games in August.[A2]

MILD, MILK TOAST , OF NO CONSEQUENCE HOPES CHINA...

So far, international criticism of the crackdown in Tibet has been mild. The U.S. and European Union called for Chinese restraint without any threats of an Olympic boycott or other sanctions.[w]

SO JUST HOW IS OUT OF CONTROL MEASURED

"What is happening in Tibet and Beijing's responses to it will not affect the games very much unless the issue really gets out of control," said Xu Guoqi, a China-born historian at Kalamazoo College in Michigan.[w] I support political poressure on the Chinese to include but not limited to Boycott of the games. It’s the right thing to do. We should show the world that some Americans if not our president have a pro human rights agenda.[trb]
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—where did this stuff come from---
[w] Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-led_boycott_of_the_1980_Summer_Olympics
[e] The Earth Times http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/192548,iocs-bach-olympic-boycott-doesnt-solve-any-problems.html
[si] Sports Illustrated http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/olympics/03/15/bc.ioc.tibettops.ap/index.html?section=si_latest
[trb] Comments ot Terry Bankert to Include CAP headlines http://attorneybankert.com/
[nrp] NRP http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88293000&ft=1&f=1004 [a] The West Austrailian http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=29&ContentID=63116
[a2] The West Austrailian http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=29&ContentID=62984
[USA] USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2008-03-15-ioc-tibet_N.htm?csp=34
[w] The Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080315/FOREIGN/313152902
[s] Students for a Free Tibet [may have to be face book member] http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2204938449
[S2] Students for a Free Tibet [may have to be face book member] http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2204938449&topic=4806

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