Deborah Harrell wrote: > <snip> > [Regarding the BJP:] > > Really nasty people, propagating the most hateful of > > ideas under the > > guise of patriotism and national security. Its > > sister organisations, the > > RSS and the VHP, are equally bad. > > Golly, no similarities here in the US...
*g* > Maybe Thomas Jefferson (IIRC) was on to something, but > I have to say that periodic revolutions seem too damn > bloody and messy to me. They would be, especially since anyone wanting to hang on to power quite that badly would not hesitate before unleashing the power of the state machinery on the rebels. This has to be the last option, once everything else has been tried out. > Still, when you can't trust > that your votes actually count, that is very bad for a democracy. Do you guys have any statutory body to act as impartial observer and monitor for the entire process? Although we haven't yet had the problem of votes not counting, we have had other problems like booth capturing and bogus voting. And the Election Commission and the PIL [Public Interest Litigation] device in the Supremem Court have been invaluable in sorting such stuff out. Sigh. I am missing elections now...they are such fun. When else can one see CMs running after and tackling people who try to run away with ballot boxes? Ritu _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
