Dalai the demagogue

What does it reveal that Dalai attacked China's Tibetan policy using the word "childish", which was used by President Obama to defend successive U.S. administration's complicity in the cover-up of the murders of 9 year-old Cecilia Zhang and 5-year-old Tamra Keepness?

That his attack on Chinese policy was made for the sole purpose of an attack. That his attack had no basis in facts and was therefore not credible. That his attack was politically motivated. That he is a political animal, despite being concurrently a religious figure. And that he is just an attack dog of his political master - the most powerful government on earth.

And this is not an isolated incident. If you have followed my journey over the years, you knew Dalai had employed similar ploy on behalf of his political master before. When I was single-handedly fighting for justice for those innocent children, he did not live up to his enormous reputation of a supposedly "moral authority" to offer the slightest support of my cause. On the contrary, following the steps of other political operatives such as former Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, he bullied me by attacking my mental health in an interview with the Financial Times in June 2006 (by saying that China had a "psychological problem" in dealing with "superpower America") with the aim to undermine and discredit my cause of seeking justice for those innocent children. Note that, Canadian government did later force a mental problem on me and held me in a mental institution where I was tortured. And I believe the U.S. government was complicit in the torture as well. (Till this day, I am still afraid of being taken back to the hospital for forced psychiatric medication.)

Another example would be his flip-flop when commenting on the newly-constructed Tibet railway, from "a positive sign of development" to "cultural genocide" in a mere three month in 2006, as I mentioned before. (What I did not reveal was that during his trip here in Vancouver to accept the Canadian Honorary Citizenship in September 2006, Chinese government had "told" me to expose what I knew about unsavoury truth behind the honour. Actually, I did carry my protest placard and  flyers to the stadium area but ultimately I decided against taking action for the above-mentioned considerations. Naturally, my inaction did not bode well with the Chinese government. But of course, I have always been my own man.) Just a couple of days ago, I watched an YouTube Al Jazeera English program, 101 East, in which he volunteered to use the railway as an example of the achievements of China's Tibetan policy. -- I bet more flip-flops can still be found.

What these events revealed is a pattern that when it comes to politics, Dalai speaks without the slightest regard to facts. They also revealed that his politics is often motivated to serve the agenda of his political masters, chiefly the U.S. government. (Which will be augmented in my next blog on him.) When someone has no respect for the facts just so as to achieve a desired political outcome, we call him or her a demagogue. Many politicians and pundits practice demagoguery. But Dalai is in an elite league of demagogues - those either with extraordinary credential or with unmatched stature, be it of political, moral or religious. It is, frankly, very difficult for an average person not to be taken in by such demagogues.

But deep down inside, Dalai must have felt a bit conflicted when engaging in demagoguery. Buddhism, as he surely knows, is a religion rooted in reality. Letting lose of his political persona only demeans his other, religious persona. After all, he does appear to be a devoted Buddhist.

Sadder, still.