Chinese puzzle

I don't really know whether Tibet belongs to China, although a nation with a billion people certainly encompasses more than one people. I cannot deny my admiration for the Dalai Lama, which appears like a spiritual leader to me, unlike eg the Pope, who leads one of the wealthiest organisations on this planet, and acts more like a CEO trying to hard sell his product.

So I felt quite shocked when the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao described Dalai Lama in similar terms US politicians talk about Osama Bin Laden, especially considering that he just asks for cultural, but not political independence for Tibet.

As the Chinese government blocks access for journalists to Tibet right now, a bilateral view on the events happening there does not come easy. However, anyone with a bit of common sense should consider that governments blocking access for the media did so to hide their crimes.

So another useless slaughter of innocent life happens in the tibetan region, conducted by the host of the next Olympic Games. The promise to improve the Human Rights situation has been broken, the Chinese government still makes some extra money by selling organs of Falun Gong supporters, killing Tibetans and giving a damn about the world wide reactions.

But in the style of mafia families, most governments don't really care about what their fellow criminals do in another terroritory. So i don't really expect anything to change - governments killing randomly parts of their own population are normal. Speaking out against governmental violence is terrorism, and as a nuclear power China has the moral right to kill innocent people, just like the US in Iraq and Afghanistan, Russia in Chechnya and Israel in Gaza and Lebanon.

The moral of this story? There is none. "Civilised" nations have the licence to kill, and as long as enough sheeple subsidise governmental murder things can hardly change. O, how much I wish to experience democracy during my lifetime... but as long as oligarchy, disguised as representative democracy, is widely accepted, we can happily feel guilty sponsoring murder by taxes.