Hi Selma I do appreciate the sheer frustration of some at times but it can never be right for determined people in Goa or elsewhere to take the law into their own hands and in outrageous ways. But even worse was the recent case when a Goan American strongly recommended that, two alleged murderers of a priest in Goa ought to be crucified upside down in public and their organs be "harvested". I was never clear in the above example, on Goanet, whether the above was an illustration of Indian/Goan speak or American wild-west speak or even vigilante Southern States of America speak. I doubt the proposer of the above remedy for the alleged crime was himself clear about what speak it was even though it had a contemporary American feel about it by virtue of the place from where the posts were being transmitted!! Cornel
Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is what Goa has turned into; a lawless jungle of arbitrary action. The law is ineffective, corrupt and unable to aid the common man. The common man inturn has become a vigilante, little realising that such action has no place in civilised society. This brings to mind cowboy Westerns set in the early 19th century, where frenzied mobs would circle prisons to lynch inmates. Heaven forbid if the girl had mistakenly identified an innocent man. Heaven forbid if such an innocent man were to be beaten to death. Heaven forbid if such an innocent man were my father, brother or husband. We reap what we sow in a society.
