Thanks to you both WWS and TF for the input (by the way steady on the Malt there WWS!
), nothing wrong with the old Highland temper flaring at injustice whatever the source. In fact this wee thread has become a bit of a Scotch corner.
The Petitions and writing to politicians has to be part of the lobbying process but I have to say it is easy to feel like the whole system is futile in the face of a extraordinary super-power state. However, it's purpose is to keep the wrongs on the agenda, and in some small way the ripples of protest might make that government think twice before it commits even worse acts of excess?
What is worrying about actions taken against Tibetan and Chinese voices who speak out against the tragedies which continue is that they are seemingly without mercy, without compassion. To silence is the aim of all states whose legitimacy is questionable.
This just in from Reporters sans Frontiers.
And here via the Tibetan Post about missing author Tashi Rabten.
), nothing wrong with the old Highland temper flaring at injustice whatever the source. In fact this wee thread has become a bit of a Scotch corner.The Petitions and writing to politicians has to be part of the lobbying process but I have to say it is easy to feel like the whole system is futile in the face of a extraordinary super-power state. However, it's purpose is to keep the wrongs on the agenda, and in some small way the ripples of protest might make that government think twice before it commits even worse acts of excess?
What is worrying about actions taken against Tibetan and Chinese voices who speak out against the tragedies which continue is that they are seemingly without mercy, without compassion. To silence is the aim of all states whose legitimacy is questionable.
This just in from Reporters sans Frontiers.
And here via the Tibetan Post about missing author Tashi Rabten.
just keep getting away with the repression.
He's only the spiritual leader of an occupied and oppressed country, who gives a damn what the Chinese think? Brown should have had a total media hype to show the Chinese what we think but maybe the government were too busy claiming their expenses. Sometimes I despair about Britain.
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