And we can say nothing.

China kept government workers confined to their offices Saturday and ordered tourists out of Tibet's capital while lines of soldiers sealed off streets where riots had erupted, witnesses said. A Tibetan exile group said at least 30 people were killed in protests Friday.

John Ackerly, of the International Campaign for Tibet, a group that supports demands for Tibetan autonomy, said in an e-mailed statement he feared "hundreds of Tibetans have been arrested and are being interrogated and tortured".

In the not too distant past we could have come out against how China is dealing with its protestors. But that was before our government started spying on its own citizens, and torturing detainees, and attacking another country due to "bad intelligence".

We have lost our moral authority, and dare not criticize a country to whom we owe hundreds of billions of dollars.