Glob-a-log

And now, for a truly heart-warming story…

Buddhist nuns waved American flags and the Dalai Lama ordered his followers to offer a standing ovation Friday morning as Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House of Representatives, came to Dharamsala, the emotionally charged headquarters of Tibetan exiles, and seized the opportunity to stick a finger in the eye of China.

“If freedom-loving people throughout the world do not speak out against China’s oppression in China and Tibet, we have lost all moral authority to speak on behalf of human rights anywhere in the world,” Ms. Pelosi, Democrat of California, told an overwhelmingly Tibetan audience of around 2,000 people in the courtyard of the town’s main temple, Tsulakhang.

The visit by Ms. Pelosi, accompanied by nine other members of Congress, most of them Democrats, was arranged some time ago as part of a visit to India. As it happened, though, it came on the heels of the largest protests in Tibet in nearly two decades, followed by a broad crackdown by China, and almost nonstop demonstrations in solidarity in this city, where the Tibetan government in exile has its base.

Ah well, the Dalai Lama is nobody’s fool, so he doesn’t need me to tell him Pelosi is a hypocrite and a coward – just another snout & trough politician.

Before she was voted in she promised to stop the Iraq war: she did nothing – apart from helping the war effort by voting with the Bush junta again and again.

Before she was elected she spoke out against the crimes of Bush & Cheney. Once in office she refused to even consider impeachment.

In office she vowed to make a stand for all the Armenians massacred by the Turks – until she refused to do so and chose the side of the killers, for strategic & business reasons.

Anyway, so now she’s one of those ‘freedom-loving people throughout the world’ supporting Tibet. Well, yes, until she gets back to Washington and supports yet another trade deal with China and refuses to even think of a boycot of the Olympic Games etcetera etcetera.

Kissing Christ in the garden of Gethsemane?

Just business as usual for Pelosi: perfect camp follower and professional Judas.

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