Re: [Marxism] House speaker proves herself as Hypocritical as the Beijing Clique

[Greg McDonald <sabocat59@xxxxxxx>]

Saul Thomas writes:

<I've pasted below an article from a website has collected some
information on US funding of Tibetan exile organizations. Again, I am
not saying that US interference is the cause of the current protests,
and the following article might overstate the case, but it is a simple
fact that some elements within the US government support Tibetan
separatism.>

 From Saul Thomas' article:

<Congress has supported increased funding for DRL’s Human Rights and
Democracy Fund (HRDF). Appropriations for HRDF grew from a yearly
average of $13 million in FY2001-FY2002 to $33.7 million in
FY2003-FY2005. Congress provided $63 million for HRDF in FY2006. China
programs account for about 25% of spending from its Democracy Fund. Most
DRL funding goes to U.S.-based NGOs, including universities, while some
subgrants go to PRC “partner NGOs.”

A footnote explains:

     Because of political sensitivities, DRL does not disclose the names
of its grant recipients.

Another Key Actor listed is the National Endowment for Democracy (NED):

     NED was created by and obtains nearly all of its funding from the
United States government. [...] During the FY1999-FY2003 period, about
38% of U.S. government funding for democracy-related programs in China
was allocated through the Endowment

It is hard to decipher where all this money is going to. The NED website
lists some of the recipients of its 2006 grand programs. These include:

     Gu-Chu-Sum Movement of Tibet - $40,000
     International Campaign for Tibet - $53,000
     Tibetan Women's Association - $30,000
     Longsho Youth Movement of Tibet - $15,000
     Voice of Tibet - $35,000

Note that these organisations are the same that have called for and
organized the current uprising.

(For some additional bits on NED's meddling take a look at this South
Asia Analysis Group report).>

The information given citing US government support for Tibetan  
organizations is pretty vague in terms of dollar amounts, some few  
millions, from what I could gather.

But if Saul's information is in fact true, that would indeed be  
evidence of continued CIA and State Dept. support for the tibetan  
movement. But the money involved, which supposedly funded the  
nonviolence training, was a pretty paltry sum, less than $150,000  
total. Boy, those CIA guys are really serious about fomenting dissent  
against China. I mean, look at all the money they're throwing at the  
Tibetans.  What a joke.

No wonder the so-called non-violence training did not work. The whole  
idea of non-violence, or satyagraha,  is to win the moral high ground  
and make up for the real military and political power of one's foe.  
It seeks to humanize the conflict and to gain international support.  
Instead, we have people running amok and rioting. The Dalai Lama has  
said he would resign from his post if the violence continues, similar  
to Gandhi's approach whenever his movement descended into violence.So  
if this whole affair was some orchestrated CIA job, they certainly  
botched it big time. I don't quite understand what the Chinese have  
to be so afraid of. This is like a mosquito vs. an elephant. The  
violence only plays into the hands of the Chinese. Unless of course,  
Dave Walters is right that the US wants to undercut the tibetan  
movement. What better way than to fill the ranks of non-violent  
protesters with provacateurs? On the other hand, the CIA could just  
be manipulating the poor Tibetans into provoking a massacre by the  
Chinese. That would make China look really bad. And they might just  
be stupid enough to do it.

Greg McD
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