RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY ROSEMARY RIGHTER IN THE TIMES
What inflammatory nonsense.
Do you recall the FBI using tanks on a group of flaky religious fanatics, ending with the death of about a hundred?
Do you recall the American National Guard shooting nearly fifty people in the streets of Detroit?
Did you know that when the U.S. assumed control of Hawaii, that virtually the entire native population signed a petition for their independence and took it to Washington and no one even talked to them?
Did you know the U.S. was using "water torture" in the Philippines, and lots of bullets, in its efforts to put down rebellion after it took over from Spain?
What do you call what the U.S. is doing in Iraq? A million dead. Three million refugees.
And then there was Vietnam, a modern holocaust of three million souls.
China's behavior here has been temperate by comparison.
And Tibet is as much part of China as New Mexico and Hawaii are part of the U.S.