Hundreds Protest Dalai Lama in Seattle

[Mr. Clandestine]

The State Department should issue a statement about the way Tibet was run before China took over. It makes Jintao's administration look like a model for tolerance.

Post-1912? Or are you referring to 13th century Chinese rule? Either or, barbaric laws and barbaric laws, no matter how you slice them, and that area of the world has never really been known for their civility. Plus, in the 13th century, nearly all laws in every continent throughout the world were barbaric in nature.

Using language like "forced abortions" is just a way to rile people up.

It's also a way to help people focus on issues they may have been previously unaware of. Human rights are being violated over there, which shouldn't be tolerated, regardless of population explosions. There are other, more humanitarian, ways to deal with such a pressing issue. Coerced and legal murder should not be one of them.

In the eyes of many here and abroad, we have many freedom-limiting laws and customs ourselves, and/or have used our power and influence to force such measures on other societies.

If we freely practiced even half of the human rights issues that are currently taking place in China, we'd have our collective heads on the chopping block with the rest of the world wielding the ax. Why should China be exempted from consequence?

China is not harming the West at all. They have never attacked us.

China is harming people all of the world with their shitty quality exports, and exports that are actually dangerous to those who use them.

Islam is a far greater threat. Even far-out militant Christians are a greater threat than China's policies. It's about time we got our priorities straight and put religion where it belongs - in the garbage can.

That may be your priority, but to religious folks, it's a necessity to keep religion. If you're free to disavow religion without fear of persecution, then why shouldn't the religious be afforded the same inalienable right?

We should support China's birth-control policies, unless we want billions more of them in the coming decades.

I don't support abortions here at home, much less in a country that can vehemently impose their will that abortions should be carried out with the sole purpose of quelling a booming population explosion. But, then again, I suppose that's just the fanatical Christian in me talking, right?