Lies, nothing but lies
Gyaltsen Norbu is not the Panchen Lama. He is only a boy Beijing selected to impersonate the true Panchen Lama, Gendun Choekyi Nyima, who was selected by the Dalai Lama. Gendun Choekyi Nyima was kidnapped by Beijing in 1995, and has been missing since. Gyaltsen Norbu has been trained and brainwashed to adhere to and spout the Beijing line on Tibet, including praising Beijing’s subjugation and cultural genocide there, and vilifying the Dalai Lama.
This intrigue of kidnapping the real Panchen Lama and replacing him with a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) clone or impersonator is part of Beijing’s 50-year plan to complete its genocide against Tibetan Buddhism, because the primary function of any Panchen Lama is to select the next Dalai Lama, and then protect and educate that child. In other words, a Communist Party Panchen Lama will choose a Communist Party Dalai Lama. If that happens, Beijing’s plan will be complete, and Tibetan Buddhism will be gone forever, replaced with “Chinese Communist Buddhism,” an oxymoron at best for an officially atheist regime.
Gyaltsen Norbu is not the Panchen Lama. Taiwan is not “Chinese Taipei” or “Taiwan, Province of China” (as a message from CNN said on my computer when using CNN.com the past few weeks). There is no such thing as “one China.” Draconian restrictions on the press and Internet are not free speech. Incarceration, torture, disappearance or worse of all those who criticize the CCP (such as [former senior party official turned dissident] Bao Tong (鮑彤) and countless others), or suggest democracy (such as Lu Xiaobo (劉曉波) and countless others) or help petitioners with their claims against the government or its officials (such as [human rights lawyer] Gao Zhisheng (高智晟) and countless others), or tell the truth about events such as earthquakes, floods, fires, explosions, toxic products, violence, ethnic cleansing, unrest or dissent (such as Hu Jia (胡佳) and countless others) do not constitute equal justice and certainly not “full human rights.”
Kidnapping a small child who is a religion’s second-highest ranking official and replacing him in order to hijack the religion is not freedom of religion. Forcing adherents to worship in CCP-run “churches” is not freedom of religion. Arresting those who worship in their homes is not freedom of religion. Branding Falun Gong an “evil cult” simply because it has many followers, and imprisoning, torturing and executing its members, or worse, is not freedom of religion.
Structuring an election — if a rubber-stamp selection can ever be considered an election, such as in Hong Kong — so that a majority of the votes are controlled by the Communist Party at all times is not democracy — it’s not even really an election. Having a small band of nine to 15 men or as few as two people in a closed room with no dissent choose the next president of a country with 1.4 billion people is definitely not democracy.
Taiwan does not belong to China. Neither does Tibet. Rebiya Kadeer is not a terrorist. The Dalai Lama is not an evil splittist. Falun Gong is not an evil cult. China is not a democracy, does not offer anything even the slightest bit like democracy and does not offer its people freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of association, equal protection under the law, due process, justice or even the most basic human rights. No matter how many Chinese Communist Party faithful or CCP toadies around the world repeat these lies in official Beijing statements, on bulletin boards, in chat rooms, in comments on Web sites, no matter when or where, they are still lies.
LEE LONG-HWA
New York
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