Tibet protesters face surrender deadline - CNN.com

You'd think a story like this would be covered, but instead CNN's been talking about the economy all fuckin' day...although it's not easy to cover it when the controlling government wont allow you to report.

They've been rioting in Tibet for a week or so now, and last night the Chinese government told them to either stop by midnight or face severe punishment. The report says at least 34 are dead, including women and children of course, by the hands of the Chinese government. But, no one is allowed access to go and report on whats happening. The Chinese government won't allow media entrance into the area.

Including women and children? That Chinese communism for you.

The real scary thing I see here, is this being another excuse for increased "security" measures here. We'll just have to see how things play out.

Anything at all will be seen as an opportunity for increased "security." Don't you want to feel safe Hatchet? DO YOU SUPPORT THE TERRORISTS AND OPPOSE FREEDOM?

And a blog that comments on the topic at hand, just for fun:
urban guerrilla - Western Press gives Tibetan protests the coverage Iraqis deserve

More Hatchet (videos)

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/articl...80318075901433

Well now it's escalated pretty badly. The Chinese government has really come too far, and I don't care if our economy goes down for a little bit, we should take action rather than just turn our heads to this. America, and therefore Canada, I mean you're right next to us, can't say that it supports freedom if it will turn away from the cornerstone of its existence to keep getting cheap labor. There's plenty of illegal Mexicans who would love to keep our economy afloat in factories here.

Of course, I don't know both sides of the story, I haven't watched those videos, and I'm pretty sure this thread isn't about whether or not someone should do something, but I'll post it anyway.

damn commies grrrr why cant we be friends why cant we be friends (singing)

No...I don't think we need to start a world war here. What scares me about this whole situation is that the Chinese government let the riots burn themselves out...all they did was sit back and film the faces of the people rioting. That's scary. They can use that to put a spin on it and show how out of control and violent people are. So next time there's a big protest in America, our leaders (who would like to model a world government after the Chinese) will point to that and use that as an excuse for excessive force.

I'm not saying that the people of Tibet don't deserve they're freedom, because they defiantly do. I'm just worried of the repercussions of what they're uprising means for all the other groups that want to rise against.

The police there did beat down some rioters. Apparently Chinese citizens never were shown that footage, just the rioters.

Oh yea, they did kill a lot of rioters, but they've been rioting for a long time. I just know at the peak, they police kinda stepped back and was like "alright...make asses of yourselves". Which, to they're credit, they didn't really do. They only torched Chinese owned business, they were very sure not to ruin anything Tibetan owned.