Tibet, the country that is controlled by China has been demonstrating the past week. The demonstrations are said to be controlled by the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Buddhists Monks. In response to the demonstration China has kicked out all foreign reporters and have quilled the peaceful demonstrations with violence.

This couldn’t come at a worse possible time. China is hosting the Olympics and in an attempt to explain their actions to the World Community they accuse the Buddhists Monks for trying to sabotage the Olympic games. The death toll in Tibet is anywhere from 16 to 80.

Enter Taiwan. Taiwan is holding their free Presidential elections this Saturday. Tibet has become a spring board for the Democratic Progressive Party. The DPP candidate who is pro independence was trailing in the polls by a margin of 20 percent. That margin has dramatically closed. Now the election is at a toss up. To close to call. The KMT candidate is not pro independence and not pro unification. He has a more gentle side to China, China has spent the past 4 years building relations with the KMT. Reports are that the people of Taiwan do not support unification but support a stronger independent identity from China.

Alongside the elections is a very controversial referendum. Actually two referendums will be held. One asks a yes or no vote- if Taiwan should seek to join the UN as Taiwan. The other asks should the country seek the UN membership under their official name, Republic of China, or any other respectable name. China will not tolerate this.

In this article the quote goes like this, “We will defend our sovereignty with all means. If, in fact, we are forced to stop a secession attempt (in Taiwan) with military means, our navy and air force are not yet effective enough. In that sort of conflict, we must be superior in the water and in the air, at least locally.”

The US is sending two air craft carriers to the region for routine tests.

Why the silence on these issues? I haven’t read or heard one US site reporting anything with depth. Why? Why does Iraq get all the attention when we have a free country that is facing pressure from a Communist country to unify with them? Is Freedom a dead cliche that we like to throw around or is it truly alive in hearts around the globe? Let’s pray and support the cause of freedom where ever it may be.

More Links:

U.S. carriers sent toward Taiwan before election

Beijing’s other problem

Vote plea as Tibet fallout hits Taiwan election race

Dalai Lama suggests Taiwan ‘integrate’ with China

Taiwan ambassador returns to native land

China Tensions Sway Taiwan Election

Update:

Taiwan’s Independence Movement Likely to Wane In this article, “Nevertheless, American officials continue to warn Taiwan not to provoke China. In Beijing on Feb. 26, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, “this referendum is not going to help anyone, and, in fact, it shouldn’t be held.”

WHAT? This is crazy… we are expecting Taiwan to back down and not stand up and declare what they already are! I’m ashamed of our leaders. It shows they like to talk tough on freedom but not back it up in action.

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Once again Politics & Religion has knocked a home run, way to go Irvin and Jesse! Politics & Religion radio broadcast has an interview of John Longnecker. John has a book that is on my list to read and I am sure 3G’ers would love to listen to the interview and or read the book. The title of the book is, “Transfer of Wealth” subtitled “The Case for Nationwide Concealed Carry of Handguns”.

Listen here.(You can right click and select save as and save the mp3 to your hard drive.)

Quotes from the Author. “Freedom is personal sovereignty.”

“Armed citizenry is not a liability but an asset.”

“Nothing puts Peace and Security into their proper perspective better than the loss of personal Liberty.”

“I don’t understand . . . We gave them what they wanted.”

“The Second Amendment isn’t about Guns any more than the First Amendment is about Typewriters. It is about abuses of due process. When the Founders had won the War for our Independence, it was abuses of due process they resisted. When they wrote the Second Amendment - and the other amendments which support it - they did not write it for you and me; they wrote it for Government. And in so declaring, throughout the entire Constitution, they wrote that the Citizen is the Supreme Authority of the nation. The Founders did not imagine nor fear weapons of the future - they feared and foresaw in the future abuses of due process, and they knew that personal sovereignty had to be backed by force, and forever if the republic was to survive from one generation to the next.”

Man it makes me want to buy a Springer like JJ’s.

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