'Free Tibet' flags made in China <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Police in southern China have discovered a factory manufacturing Free Tibet flags, media reports say. The factory in Guangdong had been completing overseas orders for the flag of the Tibetan government-in-exile. Workers said they thought they were just making colourful flags and did not realise their meaning. But then some of them saw TV images of protesters holding the emblem and they alerted the authorities, according to Hong Kong's Ming Pao newspaper. Tibet independence The factory owner reportedly told police the emblems had been ordered from outside China, and he did not know that they stood for an independent Tibet. Workers who had grown suspicious checked the meaning of the flag by going online. Thousands of flags had already been packed for shipping. Police believe that some may already have been sent overseas, and could appear in Hong Kong during the Olympic torch relay there this week. The authorities have now stepped up the inspection of cars heading to the Shenzen Special Economic Zone and onwards to Hong Kong. The Olympic torch is due to tour Hong Kong on Friday. It will then travel to a series of cities in mainland China before reaching Beijing for the start of the Olympic Games in August. Its progress around the world has been marked by pro-Tibet demonstrations in several cities - including Paris, London and San Francisco. Rallies began in the main Tibetan city of Lhasa on 10 March, led by Buddhist monks. Over the following week protests spread and became violent - particularly in Lhasa, where ethnic Chinese were targeted and shops were burnt down. Beijing cracked down on the protesters with force, sending in hundreds of troops to regain control of the restive areas. But it has since agreed to resume talks with representatives of the Dalai Lama.</div>
Forget it man, they will never be free. As long as they don't have oil and we are afraid to seriously confront China about anything, it will never happen. China has a lot of nukes. We aren't going to mess with them.
lol The US is going to make sure it approves new drugs that give 60-year old Congressmen a boner before we ever get Tibet freed from China. Any bets on that?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (GMJigga @ Apr 28 2008, 05:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Don't we already have drugs that give 60-year old Congressmen boners?</div> Exactly. This "Free Tibet" thing is way older than that though.
Yeah I too believe that they'll never be free. We'd have to go to war with China to free them. (and I don't think that would be a smart thing, unless we want a world war)
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (CelticKing @ Apr 28 2008, 06:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Yeah I too believe that they'll never be free. We'd have to go to war with China to free them. (and I don't think that would be a smart thing, unless we want a world war)</div> We only screw with countries that we know we can take. If there is any chance they can kill some of our consumers, then thats bad for business. How do you feel about giving your life or limbs for this cause? They need to be *free* don't they? Why wouldn't every red blooded American give their first son to this cause. It's about Democracy. It's about choice! Just like in Iraq, they have an oppressive force that is committing crimes against them! Why don't we go over there and show them that we are America! We value freedom for the Tibetan people! We should be there right now, with tanks and planes.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (GMJigga @ Apr 28 2008, 04:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Don't we already have drugs that give 60-year old Congressmen boners?</div> I guess 23 yr old interns are like drugs.
How could Tibet ever be free if they don't learn how to tip? <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.</div>
Nobody even flinched when China rolled right into Hong Kong a few years ago and said, "Uh, hi folks, we are taking your country now. Thank you, please carry on with your business."
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (The Return of the Raider @ Apr 29 2008, 04:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Nobody even flinched when China rolled right into Hong Kong a few years ago and said, "Uh, hi folks, we are taking your country now. Thank you, please carry on with your business."</div> Are you talking about when the British handed over control as per the terms of their lease in 1997?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (cpawfan @ Apr 29 2008, 03:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (The Return of the Raider @ Apr 29 2008, 04:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Nobody even flinched when China rolled right into Hong Kong a few years ago and said, "Uh, hi folks, we are taking your country now. Thank you, please carry on with your business."</div> Are you talking about when the British handed over control as per the terms of their lease in 1997? </div> I haven't read much about them past WW2, after being liberated from Japanese control. I thought they were a strictly British warehouse with no lease to China. I'm now trying to imagine what that place would have been like had that lease not been in place.
