Dear Teo, Thanks for admitting to a very poor article / your interview in the Deccan Herald. You have ducked the issue; which is the link and relation of SFX with the Inquisition; which was made in the interview by you and the interviewer.
Below, you make a good point about the criminal justice system in England "at the time when the Iberians had Inquisition." This is an important point. Perhaps you and others should do a bit of comparative reading of the practices of the justice systems of the period, starting with reading the Goanet archives. One will find a lot of sordid events in the Tower of London and other British castles which are full of accounts of arbitrary and brutal punishments including immersion in hot oil, beheading of enemies or perceived enemies of the state and / or the king. As I have written about this (comparative criminal justice during the period) on Goanet, I will not repeat it. The archives will also show the state of prisons and punishment during the same period in India - both Muslim and Hindu kingdoms. I would appreciate if future interviews and write-ups on the Inquisition by you and other writers provided this background. Thanks for reminding us of this valid point We cannot repeatedly blame others for THEIR misrepresentations or not appreciating the authors' bias. This issue regarding you has come up on Goanet in the past. At some point we have to take responsibility for our slant and / or phraseology. Many Goans, me included, have great respect for you, and yet find your bias bordering on misrepresentations. And MANY have told you so directly and on the net. Regards, GL ---------------- TRS wrote: Non sequitur. Would Gilbert replace the deficiencies of modern judicial systems with Inquisition? Did UK have no justice at the time when the Iberians had Inquisition? I do not fancy Gilbert's funny suggestion that I should prefix ex-priest / jesuit for everything I write. It is the duty of critical readers to find out who the writer is and his antecedents. ----------------- GL wrote: I am aware of the current brutality of the criminal justice system in USA with police abuse, false victims etc etc. So I do campaign for doing away with America's criminal justice system; even for legitimate cases? And replace the criminal justice system with what? --------- GL wrote: So Teo finds rational for the Inquisition in his thread; but in the interview severely critics SFX for thinking along similar lines. No where in the article was it mentioned that the inquisition was introduced to Goa more than 17 years AFTER SFX left Goa; and 8 years AFTER HE DIED. So to link the abuses of the inquisition to SFX is an outrage that Teo, the reporter Devika Sequeira and the newspaper editor (all Goans) should be ashamed off.
