This ain't coming out of their lunch money.

[icarus]

Oh, hahahahahahahahaha!

The "student" protests against the Dalai Lama's visit.

They had a banner behind a plane.
A professional sound system.
Professionally printed matching placards.
Enough hand outs for several thousand people.
A carefully choreographed series of speeches (with loudspeakers).
Dozens of oversized Chinese flags with poles that were just the right height for walking (that's what I always bring when I travel to other countries -- my 4 x 5 foot American flag. With pole).

When I asked them the sources behind their handouts (including one with an article that compares the Dalai Lama with Hitler) "Who says this? Where did you get this?" they wouldn't say.

There were some big bucks behind this protest.

Comments

[aerynvala.livejournal.com]

that is actually quite disturbing. good lord.

*seriously disturbed*

[dancing-moon.livejournal.com]

Hitler???

O-kay....

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

People protest against the Dalai Lama? Good Lord!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Given that there were obvious deep pockets behind this protest -- and everyone involved was pro-PRC -- it's not hard to guess who organized and paid for it.

[seikaitsukimizu.livejournal.com]

Protesting a man of inner enlightenment and peace. *heaving sigh*

And how disturbing is it that I'm totally unsurprised at the blatant big money propaganda protest?

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

I am disturbed--but not surprised. I follow the web sites of some online newspapers, and lately, the (utterly atrocious, btw) paper DIE WELT has, in its messageboards, been spammed by rather vicious and obviously non-liberal and non-intellectual pro-Chinese posts.

Read an article in the tagesschau.de (major public broadcasting news, think BBC News) that they, too, have been attacked--including death threats. They investigated and found Chinese websites, many of them, sending Chinese to the tagesschau sites, telling them how to vote in polls and how to utter short anti-Tibet opinions in German.

So yeah. There's definitely propaganda going on.

[gwendolen.livejournal.com]

Can't really say that I'm surprised by that.

[lttledvl.livejournal.com]

Yah sounds rigged. Especially since they couldn't give you details about their accusations.

[lherelenfeline.livejournal.com]

I love the sweet smell of bullshit in the morning.....
What bugs me , is that there are people to whom this isn't obvious...

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

No kidding.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

They didn't know what their sources were.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Sigh. And a friend of mine had some of these kids as roommates and totally buys into their bullshit.