Protest China over Free Tibet? WHY?

Some have asked me to join in protesting China over the Olympic Games. I will NOT. I am not protesting China over Tibet. If we were to choose a topic to protest, it would be MANY of their other policies, but not Tibet. Some may wonder if my position comes from the pages of books like "Chinese Village, Socialist State" that you would find my issue with China in Tibet. They Don't.

Why aren't we protesting China in Manchuria? There used to be a Manchuria and many ethinic Manchurians... infact they dominate China for a time. But the Manchurians have been utterly diluted by the Han Chinese... There is no Manchuria to "Save". So I find it ridiculous to think the same wont happen to Tibet.

The problem with Tibet is the Tibetans themselves and the structure/practice of Tibetan Buddhism. Go to this link and click on "Political" from this link:
http://college.holycross.edu/projects/himalayan_cultures/2004_plans/rdillon/index.htm
OH WAIT... - You can't click on the Political link and read it because it was taken down because it was too hot to handle. Basically, on that former link I challenged a lop-sided documentary called "Red Flag over Tibet" and I also used a video that aired on PBS called "Lost Treasures of Tibet" go to this website and READ my lesson plan - it is the last one on that page.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/ideas/3006_tibet.html

Note that PBS's NOVA editors were so nervous about my challenge to another biased film that they had to add an Editor's Note!

My argument is that Tibet was NEVER FREE - Therefore, "Free Tibet" is an oxymoron. The Tibetan people have lived under the repression and control of the Tibetan Buddhist Monks and about 200 aristocratic families that kept everyone in perpetual servitude prior to the Chinese occupation. In some ways, I believe that the Chinese have freed the Tibetans more than any Tibetan Buddhist has to date, even the Dalai Lama. It was like the Chinese Maoists were the Reformation to a region domintated by religiously-masked rulers... just as the reformation changed Europe and produced the Protestant ethic in Europe, that lead to ideals by the likes of Locke, Hobbes, Montesquieu, and ALL of the existentialists... so have the Chinese disrupted the domination and servitude of the average Tibetan by the Lamas. So in my view, the book "The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering" is required reading and an indictment of BOTH the Chinese and the Tibetan regimes and the way both structures exercised power in people's lives. look at that Nova web page... my 4th bullet point about the monastary in Mustang. Who can answer that?

Another question: Where does American self-righteousness come from (Richard Gere)? The domination of anglos over the natives in North America and Australia and New Zealand is just one in successive waves of migration patterns that spread out and dominate... as Arabs from the Arabian penninsula... or today as we see a 'reconquest' of North America by Mexico. I am not saying it is right or wrong. Migration and rises and falls of ethnic groups is human nature and the story of human history.