I’ll get to the post topic in a moment. First …

It’s with both a measure of sadness and glee that I observe what’s happening in Tibet and how China is dealing with it. If you haven’t read anything about it, well, peaceful Tibetans are starting to get a little bit pissed about being stomped on and having their culture and history essentially erased by the strong-armed Chinese commie government. Proving that even monks can get pissed off when enough of their freedom and history is whitewashed in the name of collectivism.

Here’s a snippet from an article I came across:

Though many were small in scale, the widening Tibetan protests are forcing Beijing to pursue suppression while on the run, from town to town and province to province across its vast western region. Sunday’s lockdown in Tongren required police imported from other towns, the locals said.

Skittering around trying to stomp out all of those Tibetan cockroaches, eh?

The Chinese government attempted to control what the public saw and heard about protests that erupted Friday. Access to YouTube.com, usually readily available in China, was blocked after videos appeared on the site Saturday showing foreign news reports about the Lhasa demonstrations, montages of photos, and scenes from Tibet-related protests abroad.

Imagine the Bush administration shutting down access to YouTube during something like the weeks following hurricane Katrina. We would have a full-on civil war.

Television news reports by CNN and the BBC were periodically cut during the day, and the screens went black during a live speech by the Dalai Lama carried on the networks.

Imagine CNN, MSNBC, and FOX being shut down by our government when anyone critical of the handling of Katrina starts talking. Think everything would be honkey-dorey?

China’s communist government had hoped Beijing’s hosting of the Aug. 8-24 Olympics would boost its popularity at home as well as its image abroad. Instead the event already has attracted the scrutiny of China’s human rights record.

… but they’re oh-so-content pointing the finger at our “gun violence”.

Thubten Samphel, a spokesman for the Dalai Lama’s government, said multiple people inside Tibet had counted at least 80 corpses since the violence broke out Friday. He did not know how many of the bodies were protesters. The figures could not be independently verified because China restricts foreign media access to Tibet.

Next time some pachouli-smelling, granola-chewing, guevara-loving, deranged code-pink retard starts barking about how we’re living under some kind of authoritarian dictatorship, tell ‘em they can fuck themselves sideways in their organic exit-hole with a pair of BBQ tongs … while watching YouTube, no less.

Fact is our arms - our “gun culture” - should be in place to instill some measure of fear and doubt into our politicians. Our government carries a big stick in the form of a military, increasingly militarized police, and all sorts of tools at their disposal intended to keep watch and “manage” the citizens. Sure, we can threaten them with rocks and molotov cocktails, but really, isn’t it a lot easier just to keep a few firearms around and let everything remain politely distrustful?