On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Venkat Mangudi <[email protected]> wrote:
> These laws are going to find him guilty and hang him. Maybe they will > find out some more about the terrorist network. But those chaps already > know he is in jail and if they are as good as planning a 9/11 and 26/11, > one can safely assume they will change the passwords. While I am not > saying that we lynch this guy, what in the name of all things good, are > we trying to achieve here? Prove to the world we are good guys? The > world knows that. Prove we are a democracy? Again, we are the largest > democracy according to everybody. A democracy depends on a functioning rule of law. A summary judgment without due process is in direct conflict with that request. Innocent until proven guilty is a fundamental maxim of that and is agnostic to the nature of the crime or the person committing it. It is open to people to vote for a party that would proceed otherwise - but then there's no guarantee that a citizen will then have the protection of due process. -- Please read our new blog at: http://blog.prathambooks.org
