What Makes Monks So Violent?
March 15th, 2008 at 9:30 am by Brian
You want a piece of me? Huh?!?
After a long night hopped up on Frangelico, PCP, and pumping their fists to Björk’s ‘Debut’ album, it’s easy to see why Chinese authorities had to break out the tear gas, tanks, and batons to put down the pajamas version of the L.A. Riots:
China’s governor in Tibet vowed to punish the rioters, while law enforcement authorities urged protesters to turn themselves in by Tuesday or face unspecified punishment.
“We will deal harshly with these criminals in accordance with the law,” Champa Phuntsok, chairman of the Tibetan government, told reporters in Beijing where he was attending a legislative meeting. “Beating, smashing, looting and burning – we absolutely condemn this sort of behavior. This plot is doomed to failure.”
Unfortunately, this is the side of Tibet the MSM doesn’t want to show us in the U.S. Drunken monks breaking into businesses and hauling their fill of looted large screen televisions back to their monastery. Carjacking the local gentry out of their rickshaws and beating them with bricks like Reginald Denny. Burning down the local fabric store after they’ve stolen yards and yards of ill-gotten saffron robes.
The official Chinese Ministry of Truth goes on:
“The protesters yesterday went from attacking Chinese police to attacking innocent people very, very quickly,” said a blog entry by a group of Westerners staying in a hotel in central Lhasa near the riot. “Many Tibetans were also caught in the crossfire.”
Despite the Chinese government’s appeal to these liquored up monks, probably on crystal meth, they had no choice but to call out the tanks because nothing is more appropriate to keep 200 people in line like thousands of police and armored vehicles. Everyone knows that one monk on crank has the strength of five silverback gorillas.
“Many windows in shops and houses were smashed,” said an employee at a hotel, who did not want either his or the hotel’s name used for fear of retaliation. He said he did not see any Tibetans arrested or injured but said some police were hurt.
No monks were arrested and the only people hurt were the police.
Luckily, tanks are very good about maintaining order and everything this morning is oh, so quiet.
Chinese authorities have generously offered leniency, a hallmark of the Chinese justice system, if everyone involved the the looting, raping, and pillaging simply turns themselves in.
Man, that sounds like a good deal. And it’s not like you have a choice.
Dan says that the Dalai Lama aka the Tookie Williams of Tibet is behind all this. I wouldn’t doubt it.
He’s shaved the ‘fro from his head but he can never shave the ‘fro on his soul.