Flushing Buddhists

[Taro Toporific]

[ramchop]

Vietnam paper banned

The Vietnamese Ministry for Culture and Information has announced the suspension of the Sinh Vien Vietnam (Vietnamese Students) newspaper for its "multiple grave editorial mistakes".

One of the reasons behind the suspension is a computerised photo the paper published last year to illustrate a story on personal financing.

It featured a banknote being flushed down the toilet.

Unfortunately, the image of the late president Ho Chi Minh is visible on the banknote.

[Taro Toporific]

Vietnam paper banned
It featured a banknote being flushed down the toilet.
Unfortunately, the image of the late president Ho Chi Minh is visible on the banknote.

Maybe Uncle Ho was a Nichiren Buddhist!
His meaningless chants of happiness fits the Nichiren Shoshu wackiness (see the Boston Globe expose').

Land of Compulsory Joy
Time magazine November 22, 1954
Men with long megaphones prowled the streets of Hanoi, their exhortations echoing behind shuttered windows. "Dear compatriots," they droned, "your joy is indescribable!"... Endlessly the men with the megaphones propagated the Eight Political Wisdoms of President Ho ("The clergy must fulfill their duties as citizens"), the Five Disciplines of President Ho ("Newspapers must support the peace policy"), and the Ten Disciplines of the Viet Minh army ("Troops are forbidden to be dissolute").

[Armandeus]

Can I get an apology from all religions for thousands of years of lies and brutality?

[Andocrates]

Militant Buddhists, what's the world coming to?