Would you say that the "Free Tibet" cause is non-partisan?

Question

In terms of American politcal parties, that is.

Answer 1

Well, to be blunt, it's a barley peripheral issue. But to the extent it is (barely) on the radar screen, it shoud be non-partisan.

Sadly, that's not the case. The right wing is too busy catering to the communist dictatorship in Beijing for the sake o filling their wallets to protest China's illegal occupation of Tibet.

Democrats (and many real conservatives) aren't in agreemennt and support a free Tibet.

It shouldn't surprise you--the neoconservatives are doing exactly the same thing in Iraq that the communists are doing in Tibet.

Answer 2

No, it's the province of the super far-lefties that support the Green Party and the wack side of the Democrat Party.

I mean, have you EVER seen a Free Tibet bumper sticker outside of a college town? These people live in a different world than the rest of us.

I doubt there's one Republican in the entire country that has a Free Tibet bumper sticker or spends more than a single moment each year thinking about the Free Tibet "cause".

Answer 3

I would say that a Free Tibet is non-partisan.

But what I would like to add is that the Dalai Lama does not seek independence of Tibet from China. He sincerely believes that the Tibetins and Chinese should coexist peacefully.

I'm a Republican and I hope that the Chinese will allow the Tibetins to live freely, but I don't see the necessity to tear China apart geographical. My liberal friends also believe in the Dalai Lamas cause, just as I do.

This weekend I'm going to see the Dalai Lama speak in Madison so I'm sure he will be extending further on the issue there.

Answer 4

Yes, support to restore the primitive, oppressive and brutal regime of the Dalai Lama in Tibet seems to come from both the Republican and Democratic parties.

Of course, neither of these organizations are exactly qualified as champions of justice.  So I'm not surprised they support a social order where political power was the exclusive right of the clergy, women were slaves, most men were serfs like in the Middle Ages, and being in a labor union could get you executed.

As far as Tibet goes, you have to have a particularly nasty and backward social order if the Chinese Stalinists can actually be honestly described as having LIBERATED the area.

Anyone who supports "Free Tibet" needs VERY BADLY to read this --

http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html