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Two new showrooms/office spaces, double height (135 sq m each with bath) for lease in upscale Campal/Miramar beach area, Panaji, Goa. Contact: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- On Fri, 9/4/09, Sandeep Heble <[email protected]> wrote: > > One fails to understand why the Government is treating this > group with kid gloves, especially since its own leaders like Manmohan > Singh and Sonia Gandhi have been shown in extremely humbling and > embarrassing postures. These visual illustrations are deliberate > attempts to insult, wound and provoke the feelings of entire > communities and those responsible for the same need to be dealt with >sternly > and severely. > > In the face of such provocative illustrations, will the > Government act against these groups? The true “Secular test” of the > present Government lies therein! > I agreed by and large with almost everything that Sandeep wrote until I came to the above two paragraphs. First, in a free country the government should not have the power to take action against private citizens or political groups for selfish and political reasons. Everybody has the right to criticize the government and to show those in power in bad light, even if it is unfair. I thought our recent petition in support of Samir said as much. Second, unless there are explicit threats or direct incitement of violence, no secular democratic government should have the authority to crack down on any private citizen or group. This is not a secular test. It is being on a slippery slope to autocracy and repressive regime. Cheers, Santosh
