[lbo-talk] dalai lama foolishness

[John Thornton]

I know next to nothing about the Dalai Lama but is his interest in 
restoring power to himself and the other monks as a theocratic ruling class 
or is he interested in a real democratic government in Tibet? Any citations 
to show specifically what he wants for Tibet?

John Thornton


>   If Hitchens had any real interest whatsoever in Tibet, which he has not,
>then he would see that democratic movements for Tibet would be insane not to
>use the Dalai Lama, both as an ambassador for his people and culture to the
>West and India and, ultimately, as an ambassador for democracy to his
>people, who have never known it.
>
>    People on the left are rightly suspicious of religion, but this
>anti-Dalai-Lama thing is just ridiculous.
>
>
>   peace,
>
>     boddi