[Assam] Moral Guardian

[Chan Mahanta]

At 8:09 PM -0800 2/8/09, Dilip and Dil Deka wrote:
>I support you.
>
>



*** That is noble. Only question is:  How will it be stopped? Who will end it?

If you are hoping for the Supremes to do it for you, they might have 
news for you. Like invoking democracy? People can do what they wish 
to in a democracy, don't they -- I mean in desi-demokrasy of course 
:-)?












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>From: kamal deka <kjit.deka at gmail.com>
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>Sent: Sunday, February 8, 2009 7:29:05 PM
>Subject: [Assam] Moral Guardian
>
>The choir boys of an organization called Shri Ram Sena recently stormed a
>pub in Mangalore and roughed up a group of women for polluting Indian
>culture.By all accounts,it is a despicable act of violence.
>It raises a few disturbing questions.
>Does an organization like Shri Ram Sene ( any organization for that matter )
>have any right to act as moral guardian to decide as to how the public in
>general should behave in a society?
>Do they have any right to take the law in their own hands to force their
>unilateral choice upon others through acts deliberate violence ?
>Shouldn't we all recoil at the thought of defending those who run around
>setting ablaze Valentine's Day cards,halting beauty pageants,banning
>Christian New Year Day celebrations,imposing dress-codes for school girls
>and threatening clubs and discos for poisoning our culture ?
>Don't these folks and their likes wreck havoc in the country comfortable in
>the belief that alert citizens have no option but to support them ?
>This must stop.The support must end.
>What's your take ?
>KJD
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