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'##::::'##:::'#####:::'########: VIVA LA REVOLUCION! CERDO DEL CAPITALISTA!!
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##:::: ##:'##:::: ##: ##::::::: THE HELOTS OF ECSTASY PRESS RELEASE #326 !!
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#########: ##:::: ##: ######::: ZIEGO VUANTAR SHALL BE MUCH VICTORIOUS! !!
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##:::: ##:. ##:: ##:: ##::::::: "Fuck Tibet" !!
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##:::: ##::. #####::: ########: by -> Zaff !!
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..:::::..::::.....::::........:: 12/11/98 !!
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My attitude toward Tibet had been one of relaxed indifference of
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late. What, after lightning struck a Tibetan Freedom Concert last
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summer, I thought that God himself had pretty well spoken on the matter
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and set things clear for once and for all as to where Tibet stands in
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the cosmic order. But, sometimes, God just doesn't talk loud enough, it
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seems.
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Today, during Daria, there was a Levi's commercial in which two
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'friends' (read: very smug womyn fashion victims) were sporting tatoos
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on their tummies. "It is Tibetan for hello" one of them says, giggling.
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And that reminded me that Tibet, despite the good intentions of the
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People's Republic of China, remains one of the trendiest causes in the
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American suburbs. But I sure don't see why.
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Religion you say? Tibet is the birthplace of Many Important
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Eastern Religious Traditions. But, if it is religion you want, I direct
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your attention to Jerusalem, the Middle East. Christianity, Judaism,
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Islam--*all* very nice and important religions in their own right, and
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all born in the Middle East. But you never see Billy Corgan drag his
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ennui drenched ass to Jerusalem to do a benefit at the Wailing Wall, or
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pleaing for the violence to stop among the Jews and the Arabs. You can
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hardly heave a grenade in Jerusalem without blowing up a major landmark
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of vast religious significance, but kids in the burbs don't have
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"Yahweh" tatooed on their bellies, or wear "Free Mecca" tee shirts.
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I never grasped why Eastern religions were more trendy than
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Christianity, Judaism and Islam. I mean, those three are *just as easy*
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for half-witted kids with too much time and money to fundamentally
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misconstrue as Buddhism or Hinduism. Maybe easier! Besides, as I have
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mentioned before, Jesus had nice abs whereas the Buddha in his
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traditional representation is a fat little bald man and it just seems
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like Jesus would play better with the 15 year old girls and their
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intellectual kindred who squawk about freeing Tibet.
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Maybe you want to talk about natural beauty in Tibet. If you
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want beauty, though, just go a little further on down to Sri Lanka.
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Lush, green forests, breathtaking hills, they have elephants for God's
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sake. Gorgeous nation which is itself rife with injustice, people
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blowing up each other right and left. The terrorists there even go by
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the name "Tamil Tigers". Sounds like a baseball team.
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Or if you want to talk about the sheer quality of oppression (or
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quantity for that matter) Tibet cannot hold a candle to other parts of
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the world, especially in Africa. Take Rwanda. Please. Two tribes,
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apparently pissed off at their silly names (the Hoot Owls and the Toot
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Toys I think) took to each other with guns and machetes. Huge
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carnage. UN is in desperate need of help running the war crimes
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tribunal. Prisoners piled up literally 100 to 150 to a room. Where
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are the Beastie Boys? Why aren't the Crust Brothers being indier than
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thou in Rwanda?
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The best I can figure, we are angry Tibet is oppressed because
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it is being oppressed by those mean old Chinese. And why do we hate
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the Chinese? Residual aspects of phony Beatlemania. Remember when
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John Boy got all pissed at Mao because he realized that Maoism was
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*not* the idealistic utopian way of life that he thought Communism
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was supposed to be?
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That's right, years later, we are still reeling from the
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terrible effects of the British invasion and its impact upon our
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culture. We have been pop-culturally conditioned to dislike the
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Chinese, which means disliking Tibetan "oppression" while we allow
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more serious offences all throughout the rest of the world.
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The solution is to ship all the Free Tibet kids to Jerusalem, or
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Rwanda, or Cambodia, or some other shitpit where they are crazy about
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torture and genocide. It will teach them a thing or two. Or just
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weed them out of the gene pool, which leaves more used beemers and Doc
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Martens and hackey sacks for the rest of us.
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!!========================================================================!!
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!! (c) !LA HOE REVOLUCION PRESS! #326 - WRITTEN BY: ZAFF - 12/11/98 !!
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