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More moral policing
Saw this in the Hindu today
http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/08/stories/2008090861101000.htm
We will pay the price for our silence on this. Once we allow snakes (sorry to insult snakes) to breed in our compounds, we should expect to get bitten.
There is an excellent piece by Pastor Niemoller who said the following lines during Hitler's times about keeping quiet and looking the other way.
"First they came for the communists, I said nothing as I was not one
Then they came for the trade unionists, I said nothing as I was not one
Then they came for the Jews, I said nothing as I was not a Jew
Then they came for me and there was no one left to say anything"
Srivathsa
Drive safe. It is not just the car maker which can recall its product.
need to take up with the Home Minister
This is indeed sad. Perhaps, we need to ask Mr V S Acharya, the Home Minister, to keep a check on his 'Parivaar' members.
Muralidhar Rao
Danger!
User Interaction Designer
Bangalore
BJPs True Colours?
after 100 days, Is this the begining of the end, or the end of the begining? I have started seeing a lot of reports on religious violence, attacks by Bajrang Dal and other Hidutva Organisations. those who seemed quiet under congress/JDs rule seem to have taken law into thier own hands now.
This article in TOI today, is very contreversial.
Such remarks are appalling andshowcase a very scary future. We seemed to have lost our sense of secular country theory.
This in my view slowly will lead to moral policing. First they tell you who to follow, then whom to marry, then whom to sit next to and lastly who to die for!
Personally I am non-religious. I don't advocate any religon, and nor do I belive I should be advocated to any. Pressure to join any religion would only distance me further from it.
User Interaction Designer
Bangalore