The Mandate of Heaven
No friend am I to the bloody-handed tyrants of the P.R.C., but let us be frank: the Tibet that existed prior to the Red Chinese reoccupation of 1950 was not the wonderland of prosperity and equality that the Dalai Lama, his clique, and their sycophantic admirers here in the West pretend. The office of Dalai Lama is not only that of an unelected despot, but the most irrationally selected despot on Earth. An infant, a helpless innocent, is kidnapped and spirited away from his parents to be raised by isolated fanatics who brainwash him into claiming he's the reincarnation of a heathen god. That madness, ladies and gentlemen, is no basis for a government, not even a powerless government-in-exile. And if I may be so bold, that all sounds like decidedly un-Buddhist behavior.

Also, I do admire the Chinese Communist Party's sense of humor. They call their government the People's Republic of China, though it is neither a republic nor a servant to the people of China. They call their legions the People's Liberation Army, though it exists for the exact opposite purpose of liberation the people. And what do they call the anniversary of their reassertion of Chinese suzerainty in Tibet? "Serfs' Liberation Day"! They may be butchers, but those guys have a wickedly hilarious sense of irony: liberationlink.