When I was in Tibet and China shooting my documentary “Kora: Tibet and the Trail of Truth,” I found I could not upload my blog videos to Blogger which is where my blog was located at the time. That’s because the Chinese government’s “Great Firewall” was blocking Blogger and hundreds of other sites they deemed subversive. Thanks to YouTube, I was able to upload my videos and blog from Mount Everest (I think I was the first ever) as well as Lhasa, Gynantse and elsewhere throughout Tibet and China. Now, even YouTube is being blocked from the eyes of Chinese and Tibetans because of the brutality displayed by the Chinese army in silencing dissent in the free country they invaded, occupied and violently cleansed fifty years ago.
If you’d like to see the videos, simply page down this blog to the links I’ve posted that contain pix, video, and stories about the atrocities being committed by the Chinese army in Tibet over the past fifty years and right now.
We should not be shocked because America has done the same thing repeatedly. During the Iraq War, the Pentagon’s strategy of “embedding” journalists in certain segments of the US invasion forces was designed to control the news and images of the way, not accomodate freedom or truth. I’m sure Bush is not outraged at the events in Tibet, despite his little tete-a-tete with the Dalai Lama last year (which outraged his overly-sensitive Chinese masters). I’ll bet he’s applauding their censorship tactics because he’d do the same thing. And still does.
