Comment Re:Typical (Score 1) 459
Offensive to whom? Only to Nazis, or offensive to genocidal regimes in general?
Ask any Mongol survivor, or a refugee from the Dreprung Loseling monastery, if the comparison is unreasonable.
Chinese people perhaps?
The Drepung attrocity happened decades ago, are you saying China hasn't changed? The fact is each country/civilisation/culture has terrible things in their past. Raising long past events isn't any defence of a comment equating current China to the Nazi regime.
I don't have any resources to quote chapter and verse, but I am certain that it's a matter of doctrine that we obey the laws of any country we visit or do business in. The dividing line is past the point where we have embargos. We obey Saudi laws and Malaysian laws, but we don't obey Cuban laws or North Korean laws.
Don't worry, I'm not after any research :-) I agree that's what the position should be in reality. The comments of the Congressman however intimated that Google et al. shouldn't be following certain laws of the countries they operate within because they aren't the same as US law. I think I responded to another post simply by saying if this were really an issue, the US wouldn't allow companies to operate in China.
Basically I think we agree there!
Yes, the current government is completely broken according to its opposition. Nevertheless, people have not yet become upset enough to take real action (coup, rebellion, allies becoming enemies and taking military action, that sort of thing), preferring instead to wait out the term peacably.
I think the sad irony in that is that under the current regime, they would be called terrorists.
Chinese people perhaps?
The Drepung attrocity happened decades ago, are you saying China hasn't changed? The fact is each country/civilisation/culture has terrible things in their past. Raising long past events isn't any defence of a comment equating current China to the Nazi regime.
I don't have any resources to quote chapter and verse, but I am certain that it's a matter of doctrine that we obey the laws of any country we visit or do business in. The dividing line is past the point where we have embargos. We obey Saudi laws and Malaysian laws, but we don't obey Cuban laws or North Korean laws.
Don't worry, I'm not after any research
Basically I think we agree there!
Yes, the current government is completely broken according to its opposition. Nevertheless, people have not yet become upset enough to take real action (coup, rebellion, allies becoming enemies and taking military action, that sort of thing), preferring instead to wait out the term peacably.
I think the sad irony in that is that under the current regime, they would be called terrorists.
