There has been a lot of blowback about the People’s Republic of China in the media over the last couple of weeks. The continuing storylines are the usual things: Food Safety Lead Paint No standards Corrupt Practices Economic Blackmail Police State and so on.
Overlooked in all this is the PRC’s determination to take a firm stand on reincarnation.
From Newsweek in a piece by Matthew Phillips, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. I’ll quote the article here: According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to reincarnate, is "an important move to institutionalize management of reincarnation."
Of course, the real story is the Chinese government messing with Tibet in general and the Dalai Lama in particular, reincarnation of the Dalai Lama being a core tenet of Buddhism. Perhaps the more absurd side of this, is that the US Department of Homeland Paranoia didn’t come up with it first.
One could almost imagine Mikey Chertoff and Shotgun Dick at a signing ceremony in the White House: The bill, called Reincarnation Enhancement as part of the Secure Homeland Institutional Terror Statutes would very specifically outlaw any suicide bombers from getting the 72 nicey-niceys or coming back to this life as anything except illegal aliens.
I mean really, if President Jo Jo The Idiot Boy isn’t going to protect us from terrorists reincarnating, then, hey, we might as well go on Rush Limbaugh and whine for the next four weeks about how the government is abnegating their responsibilities, leaving us open to another 9/11. I could probably book an appearance on O’Reilly too.
I need some letterhead along the lines of Americans Reincarnating Securely Everywhere and a few hundred names on a petition. If Ann Coulter can draw an audience with her inanities, then protests about reincarnated terrorists isn’t that far a leap.
This might work. That’s the scary part. It might just work.
RoadDave 