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Who: Shawn.
Why: I’m that guy who is always sending links to my friends. There seems to always be some article or whatever that is either hilarious, appaling, or fascinating. I’m going to see how it goes with putting some of those things on this site instead of sending out all those links. Maybe then I can come off some ignore lists. The trick for me is going to be not getting all ranty or preachy. I’m kind of a jerk that way sometimes. We’ll see how it goes.
Where: I currently reside in the San Francisco bay area. I am not from here nor will I likely be here forever. But at least since the last time I updates this, it’s where I live. It’s nice here.
What: What?
When: I’m a bit random sometimes so posts come when they come. Probably very seldom on the weekends as I tend to not use the computer as much then.
How: My email address, should you want to contact me for who knows what reason, is shawnspam and that is at gmail. Is it sad that we can’t type out our email addresses for fear of being swamped with daily penis size accusations?
- shawn
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Hi Shawn
I figure you’re interested in human rights too :-) I stumbled across this case (I copied from http://www.tibet.ca/en/panchenlama):
“Who is the Panchen Lama?
Birthday: Age: 13
Born: Lhari, Tibet
Address: Unknown
The Panchen Lama was 6 years old when he and his parents were kidnapped from their home in Tibet by the Chinese government. He is the world’s youngest political prisoner and he has been missing for over 6 years.
Panchen Lama is a title like Vice-President or Prime Minister that Tibetans give to the second greatest leader of Tibet. Panchen means “Great Scholar” and Lama is a word Tibetans use for a religious teacher. We believe that the Panchen Lama is the protector of all the world’s living beings.
This all means that the boy in this picture will grow up to be a very powerful leader of Tibet and perhaps the world.
Why did the Chinese Government Kidnap The Panchen Lama and his Parents?
Tibet used to be its own country but China invaded it in 1949. After the Chinese took over, Tibetans in Tibet were no longer free or happy. China kidnapped the Panchen Lama, his parents and brother from their home in Tibet and are holding them under house arrest somewhere in China. We are still not sure where they are and hopefully through this web page we can spread the word about this boy and help him and his family”.
I know that Dalai Lama is extremely worried about him - I think the world community should be too.
Take care,
Louise
:)