Oh Tibet

Peter has a heart felt post on the violence engulfing Tibet. The Chinese repressive machine seems to be in full swing and with no news allowed to come out, it is hard to know the details, but enough to know that a lot of people are suffering.

Does the heart not bleed for this poor country in its long night of oppression? What is it about this human species that we need to crush, dominate, destroy? Centuries of accumulated wisdom, religious experience, art and culture are threatened by the willful ignorance and arrogance of men (mostly, yes, men, unhappily) whose need to wield temporal power over others recognizes no boundaries and respects the rights of no other human soul.