lhadon &laquo; WordPress.com Tag Feed http://wordpress.com/tag/lhadon/ Feed of posts on WordPress.com tagged "lhadon" Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:29:37 +0000 http://wordpress.com/tags/ en <![CDATA[bravery...]]> http://sockrebel.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/bravery/ Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:06:34 +0000 sockrebel http://sockrebel.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/bravery/ I know we did this and got off pretty easy. And while I appreciate that some people think I did something brave, I'm not sure I did. Bravery is standing in front of a tank in Tiananmen Square. Bravery is getting on a stage in Tibet and calling for the return of the Dalai Lama. Bravery is going to Beijing to petition to get compensation for your confiscated farmland to the very same government that probably took it in the first place. All this, with no protection. No foreign passport, government, or official body that will defend you.

What I did, what we did, it was nothing in comparison. But I hope and I pray that somehow we have made a difference in the battle for human rights and freedom in Tibet and in China. The Olympics spotlight is on the Chinese leadership now and they want the world to believe they are open and free. But they are not. They demonstrated this by deporting me at the very moment that the one-year countdown to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games was taking place in Tiananmen square. Paul and I just wanted to attend. To see it for ourselves and to blog about it like one should be able to in any place that truly enjoys freedom.
~Lhadon Tethong on Beijing Wide Open

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