[LeoWindhorse]

The PRC hits a homerun in evil commie hypocracy with this one! So this is what the railroad was really being built for? Mao tse-Dung , the monster who unleashed the Cultural Revolution's murdering hords of the Red Guards on the defenceless people of Tibet , who established genocidal prisons like Drapchi and who was almost singlehandedly responsible for the near destruction of Tibetan Buddhism in its own land with the razing of countless monasteries and the murder of probably well over a million Tibetans ....Now the loving PRC gov sees fit to put up a vast statue to this killer tyrant , on the very land that ran red with the blood of its people under his rule? PRC truly knows no shame .

[2banana]

I say the Tibetans do a Taliban on that statue...

[rhombus]

"If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you aren't gonna make it with anyone anyhow" --Lennon/McCartney

[COEXERJ145]

Mao is the worst mass murderer in history. He is well ahead of Stalin and Hitler combined.

That said, he is definitely an interesting historical character to study.

[kms61]

mull this one over, Wal Mart defenders.

[Donald Meaker]

I suppose they could do a "mount rushmore" thing, and add Hitler, Stalin, and Marx.

Then, when democracy wins, we could use the statues as raw material for somethink appropriate.

I kind of like Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo, and Gummo. better. Now there would be a statue.

[dead]

Hello Dalai, how's that pacifism working out?

[Mike Darancette]

The PRC hits a homerun in evil commie hypocracy with this one!

I'm sure the Tibetans consider Mao a liberator and hero of their country.

[siunevada]

7m from a 5m pedestal

Should be about the size of Saddam's old statue in downtown Baghdad.

[Verginius Rufus]

It should be made of mouse dung (the proper way to pronounce the great leader's name).

[jrg]

Ahhh, but because of the Chinese attempted suppression and destruction of Tibetan Buddhism, they have driven it out into the world. We now have the opportunity to see highly realized lamas that, had we been born normal Tibetans, would never have had access to.

[Gordongekko909]

"The 35-ton memorial is being built to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the former leader's death."

I'm celebrating the death of Mao too, by putting pictures of him in bar urinals. But I think that's a little different than what the ChiComs are doing.

[Blue State Insurgent]

Where's the Tibetan weightlifter with the sledge hammer when you need him?

[Fitzcarraldo]

Springtime for Mao

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Mike Tyson is happy, Richard Gere is saddened.

(The most important thing about news is its impact on celebrities.)

[taxed2death]

......just warms the cockles of my heart knowing that China has the "most favored nation status" pertaining to trading partners...

[1Old Pro]

SAVE TIBET.... There, now I feel better.

[Navy Patriot]

Your anger is justified. The most evil human to walk the face of Earth is Mao or Stalin and I lean toward Mao.

And to think, it might have been but a pipe dream for the commie genocider if Truman had a little smaller ego.

[Conservative Firster]

How the CIA sponsored and betrayed Tibetans in a war the world never knew about

[cmsgop]

I am sure the Beastie Boys will be Outraged....