Dear Roland, Not just Goa, but evidently the whole of India is a bastion of lawlessness. This presents a very important question. Which country, east of Italy has been able to engender the sort of democracy that reigns in the West? None. The whole of the Middle East is a dictatorship in one form or another. The Far East is either a communist bloc or strident police states such as Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore. Africa is a civil-war and coup d'etat nightmare. And even Russia after a short stint with free-fall democracy has now reverted back to the sort of tight rigorous controls that existed prior to the fall of the Berlin wall.
You have to realise that Western styled democracy has been a 10 century project. Unfortunately, the same does not hold true from Asia, Africa or the Far East, who stumbled from feudal or tribal system of governance into colonialism, never having the opportunity to grow the sort of responsible attitudes that come with democracy. The situation in India is poised to get far worse. A look at the communal propaganda that is being circulated by extremist groups is bone-chilling. Add to that a polity that has half its anatomy missing. A crumbling world-wide economic situation. A predicted water and food supply shortage. 1 billion people and growing. This is a cauldron of disaster. selma --- On Mon, 10/13/08, Roland Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Roland Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Goanet] Prajal Sakhardande, Aires Rodrigues assaulted, > hospitalised. > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, October 13, 2008, 9:01 PM > By any standards, Goa is a lawless state. > > Roland.
