This year is the best opportunity to help Tibet in a generation.
Rab
· 1 year ago
Nancy, speak out about our loss of freedom in this country too, thanks.
SarainKC
· 1 year ago
Until we elect a President that actually HAS a conscience, these senseless murders will continue. McCain and Hillary unfortunately have demonstrated they lack that basic requirement.
Mikki --SE Pennsylvania
· 1 year ago
The reason is right in the article. Tibet has no oil or other rapeable natural resources. Also, no lobbyists. Nancy also needs to speak out about IMPEACHMENT; WHY has it not been on the table??? She has never told us.
nicho
· 1 year ago
Sorry, but Nancy P. Lousy lost all her moral authority when she took impeachment off the table. It's easy to throw stones at someone 12,000 miles away (not that you could hit them at that distance).
She had the ability to deal with an illegal and tyrannical government much closer -- and she blew it.
Shut your yap, Nancy.
wavingclouds
· 1 year ago
Living over here in Asia I find her comments irresponsible and damaging to a peaceful process in Tibet. Comments like this show ignorance.
bumpkis
· 1 year ago
At least Tibet is on the table....
devis1
· 1 year ago
Are any of our elected officials in the country or have they all gone overseas?
unrepentant_expat
· 1 year ago
The occupiers of Tibet took control of the area about the same time as the occupiers of Palestine did, yet there is little support in the world that they leave. Maybe the Palestinians need an exiled leader as charismatic as the Dali lama. Unfortionately, I suspect they have about the same chance of regaining control of their homelands as the Sioux have of restoring their control of the Black Hills.
devis1
· 1 year ago
The war on terra has been a godsend for China thanks to bushco. China has been given the green light to treat the Tibetans and the very large population of Muslims in the northwest part of the country as insurgents and terrorists.
unrepentant_expat
· 1 year ago
Copy that. It seems that America's moral high ground is in fact a quagmire.
Sugapea
· 1 year ago
"Perhaps it's our karma, our fate, to be with you at such a sad time," Pelosi said. Republicans lack heart...compassion.
unrepentant_expat
· 1 year ago
What they lack in compassion, they make up for with oppression.
Jump to the Left
· 1 year ago
I am less than thrilled with Pelosi's overall performance, but I'm not willing to pass up the best opportunity to help the people of Tibet in a generation. If it can be used to leverage any support at all for the plight of the people of Tibet, I think that would be a very good thing.
That said, I would love a speaker of the house who would actually rally support for progressive causes, oppose Bush's dictatorial imperial policies, lead congress in providing presidential oversight, and defend the constitution.
jr
· 1 year ago
repubs won't say anything about China. They don't want to upset the Walton family who they keep trying to get rid of the estate tax for
tofubo
· 1 year ago
what she should have said:
"If freedom loving people throughout the world do not speak out against Bushco's oppression in America and the world, we have lost all moral authority to speak on behalf of human rights anywhere in the world," Pelosi said before a crowd of thousands of Americans, including clergy and schoolchildren.
"The situation in the White House is a challenge to the conscience of the world," she said.
Sanders
· 1 year ago
Pelosi is NOT to be trusted. She is simply too close to Hillary. Anyone that would align themselves with either Bill or Shill are not true Democrats. Pelosi has refused to publicly rebuke either Hillary or Bill's racism or patisan political dirty tricks. Democrats who side with either Clinton need to know that the rank and file of the Party will no longer tacitly accept their corruption. If Obama is NOT given the nomination he deserved, then we will give the Presidency to McCain. It's as simple as that. We are sick of the divisiveness and name-calling of the Hillbots and will never vote for her regardless.
SarainKC
· 1 year ago
Sanders, I get your fury with Pelosi. Mine started the moment she took the gavel and informed all her Dem supporters that impeachment was off the table. I frankly will contribute every last dime to see her defeated when the time comes. BUT to say you'd vote for McCain is nuts. There is always Nader or you can be silent with a clean conscience. It won't come to that, I am confident. Hillary will be bowing out. Hopefully it won't be by force,but she will have no choice. Hang in there. It will happen. :)
HolySmokesBaby
· 1 year ago
"The situation in Tibet is a challenge to the conscience of the world"
... not to mention Darfur.
wavingclouds
· 1 year ago
I find it distressing that the USA is into the China bashing mode most of the time these days. Right now they are waging an illegal war in Iraq according to U.N. law. Also the so-called “slave labour force” of China that people always refer to are unionising and exercising their rights if you tune to the BBC instead of FOX. I would recommend that Americans start to donate 100USD per laptop purchase to fund all the cancer treatments that will be required from the toxins they have created to get cheaper Chinese made products and better stock returns while they sit in their Starbucks sipping Lattes commenting on human rights. They are a huge consumer of products and energy and yes a CAUSE of industrialization and pollution in Mainland China and the exploitation that follows. How about you all paying more for your products from China and let them get healthcare and big homes like you are enjoying? I do not see Americans looking clearly at their role in all this. As someone who grew up in a liberal New York environment who has lived in Asia for the last 7 years I find American politicians sorely miss-informed and hypocritical about their role in a free world. The situation in Tibet is a lot more racially volatile and economically complex than any of the leaders have presented and when Tibetans are killing Hans (Yes a different tribe then Tibetans and maybe just a little better at being merchants, just lie the Jews were in Germany before they were mobbed) people immediately blame China not Tibet for the infractions. I have not heard much about New Orleans lately. I did not hear China bashing the U.S. for its treatment of minorities during that period. I did not hear The Dalai Lama say anything about it either.
The people I have met in China like America and American products. I have never met a government worker or official that was rude or intrusive or tried to create a conflict for me or anyone else in the area I visited and I travelled alone and unprotected in undeveloped regions. China is in no way or shape or form what the media presents it as. The Politicians who are in key positions have a responsibility to create a peaceful solution to this and not make negative statements towards leaders who are dealing with a billion plus population and exiled leaders (Yes he is a leader and should not be allowed to resign and should take blame and responsibility for rioting by his countrymen. Resigning is quitting and cowardly. -Go to Beijing your holiness and talk with cameras rolling and debate with the premier. He is a very smart man so it will be good for you both to expose your views to the world. No editing. No sound bites. Just two leaders arguing it out. That is freedom.
I find these days Americans to be the most untravelled, uniformed and most opinionated group on the planet.
Stop the negative blaming and colouring of China. Either is proactive or inactive but the planet is no longer in need of blamers. Look closely at the footage from Hong Kong of the riots. Hans being severely beaten minding their own business by mobs. Would you like to be a Han and beaten by a Tibetan. The Dalai Lama is only one person. Maybe he is peaceful but his constituents are not.
wavingclouds
· 1 year ago
Living over here in Asia I find her comments irresponsible and damaging to a peaceful process in Tibet. Comments like this show massive ignorance towards China and Tibet.
Richardini
· 1 year ago
I admire Nancy Pelosi for her stance but the situation in Tibet has been intolerable for many years. The Chinese have enslaved the people of the most spiritual country in the world. The Chinese have shown again and again their lack of feeling toward other nations. In Sudan, all that matters to them is oil, not Darfur. We have a lot of that too when we think of the genocide in Ruanda. The Chinese are kind of up the creek because the Olympics are coming up and all they need is for a bunch of holier than Thou countries to boycott the games. I don't think for a minute that the Chinese are going to back down an inch in Tibet. To them Tibet is part of China. We kind of think of Latin America as our back yard. That sucks too. Big nations invariably screw little ones. Big fish eat little fish. It is human nature. One of these days, after I'm gone, we will have to fight China. Todays friend is tomorrow's enemy and vice versa has always been true. Poor Tibet. They don't deserve this.
kiki
· 1 year ago
Pelosi is a joke! She has b*lls to talk about the situation in Tibet when we are interfering in the sovereign nation of Iraq. Hundreds of thousands people dead, wounded and maimed on both sides brought on by a president and administration that lied (and is still lying) about wmd and Al Qaeda. It really angers me that she is worried about China and Tibet when we still have a sitting president that should have been impeached long ago for what he has done to this country and the whole world. When Nancy takes impeachment off the table and starts bringing the troops I might start listening to her, until then, she isn't any different than the rest of what is running this country. It's time for a change. It's time for the LIES, GREED, DEATH and DESTRUCTION to end. Nancy should get her priorities straight in this country before she starts interfering where she doesn't belong. Time to vote Pelosi out with the rest of them. None of them care about you or me, all they care about is Corporate America and filling their pockets. As you can see, they are set for life and their spouses will also be set for life even after they are long gone. They are setting everything up for the New World Order with United Nations as the police force for it. SOMETHING VERY WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE!
rabond
· 1 year ago
After Pelosi's jawboning, and doing nothing to stop, the war in Iraq, I really don't think this is a major international event.
mirth
· 1 year ago
Nice fiction of Tibet and the Chinese, set in the 50s:
All Comments
Check out Seven Years in Tibet sometime.
Nancy also needs to speak out about IMPEACHMENT; WHY has it not been on the table??? She has never told us.
She had the ability to deal with an illegal and tyrannical government much closer -- and she blew it.
Shut your yap, Nancy.
Republicans lack heart...compassion.
That said, I would love a speaker of the house who would actually rally support for progressive causes, oppose Bush's dictatorial imperial policies, lead congress in providing presidential oversight, and defend the constitution.
"If freedom loving people throughout the world do not speak out against Bushco's oppression in America and the world, we have lost all moral authority to speak on behalf of human rights anywhere in the world," Pelosi said before a crowd of thousands of Americans, including clergy and schoolchildren.
"The situation in the White House is a challenge to the conscience of the world," she said.
... not to mention Darfur.
The people I have met in China like America and American products. I have never met a government worker or official that was rude or intrusive or tried to create a conflict for me or anyone else in the area I visited and I travelled alone and unprotected in undeveloped regions. China is in no way or shape or form what the media presents it as. The Politicians who are in key positions have a responsibility to create a peaceful solution to this and not make negative statements towards leaders who are dealing with a billion plus population and exiled leaders (Yes he is a leader and should not be allowed to resign and should take blame and responsibility for rioting by his countrymen. Resigning is quitting and cowardly. -Go to Beijing your holiness and talk with cameras rolling and debate with the premier. He is a very smart man so it will be good for you both to expose your views to the world. No editing. No sound bites. Just two leaders arguing it out. That is freedom.
I find these days Americans to be the most untravelled, uniformed and most opinionated group on the planet.
Stop the negative blaming and colouring of China. Either is proactive or inactive but the planet is no longer in need of blamers. Look closely at the footage from Hong Kong of the riots. Hans being severely beaten minding their own business by mobs. Would you like to be a Han and beaten by a Tibetan. The Dalai Lama is only one person. Maybe he is peaceful but his constituents are not.
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