All the world is a theater, the audience wants to hear and is ready to pay for the Dalai Lama live, said Tom Kahn, a German writer, in an interview with China Tibet Online on July 22, 2011.

The reporter asked: "What's your understanding on their so-called "human rights of Tibetan people" for the Obama-Dalai Lama meeting?"

The German writer said: "That's like two blind men discussing about a painting. The United Nations continuously criticize most Western countries including the US for their violations of human rights. The Dalai Lama represents a former feudal system based on slavery. If the old Tibet of the Dalai Lamas still existed today, it would be condemned as a terrorist regime. No Dalai Lama despite any Buddhist doctrine on compassion ever improved the human right situation of his people.”

According to him, all the world is a theater and a theater has a double floor. Just like both Western and Dalai Lama’s policies are show business and based on double standards. They say what the audience wants to hear and is ready to pay for (Germans pay up to 200 Euro for a ticket to see the Dalai Lama live).

In his opinion, the Dalai Lama is on the payroll of the White House or that in fact the CIA was involved in Tibet and helped the Dalai Lama to escape.

Tom Kahn also stated another reason step by step: The cold war is over. The Soviet Union no more exists. The old enemy communism is supposed to be dead; capitalism and democracy are expected to prevail. But unfortunately all the old problems in the Western world exist: poverty, unemployment, environmental catastrophes, and financial crashes.

"So, how to explain to everyone to keep the system running? Are there any alternatives? Someone in the US might point to China and ask the forbidden question:'Why are the communists still alive and why are they doing better not just in business than we are?'"

"Try to explain this to your voters who might just have lost everything they worked for all their life. In this ideology crisis there is a possible answer for Obama:'We have human rights. And the Dalai Lama will tell you how important they are.' The ancient government used the Dalai Lama to deceive the people in the old Tibet. Maybe today the Dalai Lama's role on the international stage of policy is a similar one."

"On top he is like a sting in Western hands to irritate the Dragon. After he spoke everybody will go home from the theater feeling good in the "unjust but moral" Western world. And they forget the money they paid."

That "seems to work because nobody ever asked if the Dalai Lama is telling the truth."

As far as Tom Kahn is concerned, more human rights don't equal more democracy.

"The German magazine Stern wrote about the two faces of the Dalai Lama and his undemocratic regime."

"Tibetans in exile who want to express their wish to cooperate with China are not allowed to do so in public," because "the Dalai Lama doesn't accept any differing views on his policy within his community." And "any statement in Daramsala in front of a Western camera that would question or criticize the Dalai Lama's approach towards China is suppressed."

"During the Iraqi war the commander of the American troops, Norman Schwarzkopf, said in an interview:'We defend democracy. But we don't practice it.' Looks like Obama and the Dalai Lama definitely need to discuss human rights - with the man in the mirror," Tom Kahn added.