Theos-Talk Archives (September 2004 Message tt00821)

Yeah...
I had the same thoughts.

M. Sufilight

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From: "kpauljohnson" <kpauljohnson@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 12:42 AM
Subject: Theos-World Political timidity


> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "prmoliveira" <prmoliveira@y...> wrote:
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> > Not necessarily. See the 'On the Watch-Tower' notes for "The
> > Theosophist", July 2004:
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> I did, and agree wholeheartedly with Mrs. Burnier's condemnation of
> the US media for its scandalous behavior in this instance. However,
> she does not acknowledge that, as a recent Washington Post article by
> an Indian writer reports:
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> "India has the highest number of cases of police torture and custodial
> deaths among the world's democracies and the weakest law against
> torture," said Ravi Nair, who heads the South Asia Human Rights
> Documentation Center. "The police often operate in a climate of
> impunity, where torture is seen as routine police behavior to extract
> confessions from small pickpockets to political suspects."
> from:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41162-2004Aug4.html
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> It would take more political courage for an Indian to criticize
> torture in India than in Iraq.
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> Paul
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