 |
Vincent Bugliosi says that if impeachment proceedings can be launched against a sitting president for having a consensual physical relationship with an intern outside his marriage why can’t criminal proceedings be initiated against a president who deliberately lied to the country to launch this war which has resulted in deaths of more than a hundred thousand innocent people which include Americans and Iraqi women and children?
My heart says no he should not. He can fight for himself as he has been doing so far. His acts do not merit any consideration. The number of people he has killed or maimed for life does not merit any kind of assistance. He can rot in hell as far as we are concerne
To be fair to Advani we did hear from him initially a day or so after Pragya Thakur was arrested. He said that terrorism in any form has to be condemned. That was surely the correct thing to say, at that time. But things have changed ever since. Initially it seemed that it was just the Sadhvi and her faithfuls who have indulged in this dastardly act but now it is amply clear that there are many Hindu fundamentalists involved in this whole thing.
Maharashtra is ahead of our times it seems. Or may be the rest of us are still living in the dark ages. And that’s because we still feel that living in is not exactly the right thing to do. Making it legal will only encourage people to indulge in it. And we can all blame Maharashtra for this.
Copyright © 2010 Makesplash - All Rights Reserved
Loading ...