Not being satisfied with inability or unwillingness to enforce existing laws, or to obtain speedy justice or to follow the orders passed by various Superior Courts (For example ‘it’s a fundamental right of citizens to get safe roads’), the Indian authorities are now introducing the dubious concept of “emotions of the people”.
This means that if there is nothing in the rules or laws to prevent a certain action (beef slaughter for meat consumption) then drum up people’s emotions, encourage Lynch mob mentality, call it emotions of the people and further your party agenda. I abhor using a Nazi comparison for fear I would trivialize Nazi cruelty and violence but how else could one not make the comparison of recent actions by Indian authorities to the Brown Shirts of Germany’s Hitler’s pre Nazi era. From a reproduction in the Goan Voice UK; 11 Sep: Herald. There are laws governing the slaughter of cows, but there is no law that explicitly bans the consumption of beef. Admittedly, the statement on Karnataka has the right to decide on cow slaughter was qualified with the statement that a decision on this would be taken considering the ‘people’s emotions’. It was also said that a ban on cow slaughter in Karnataka would not affect Goa. Given that almost all the beef Goa consumes comes from Karnataka, this would have a major bearing on our State. But a ban on beef shouldn’t, however, depend merely on emotions of the people… For further details click here Roland. Toronto.
