[Reader-list] Free expression for a Muslim Traitor-AlienorHindubetrayers?

[radhikarajen at vsnl.net]

Hi all,

  freedom of speech and then show of lati along with the free speech has 
resulted in enough violence and show of intolerence in maharashtra,one 
non-entity who with his navnirman sena went on to destroy the property that 
belonged to all in his state invoking the marati manoos for the violence, 
another talking of retaliation holding a lati in his hand, did his best to 
further divide the citizens in to communes on language and faith. All along 
the Marata great fuedal lord, minister for agriculture and king of sports 
body with billions to control all, had secret parleys to divide the commune 
votes of maratis, and the sufferer in all this game is reflected with death 
of a marati manoos by a stone thrown at him !
  So, is freedom of speech available to invoke violence to Abu and Raj who 
were media hyped into celebrities overnight, that centre had to send para 
military forces for the drama of arrest and bailing out. ? Is this 
democratic working of the system where citizens are scared of goons and the 
system actively helps to breed such goons in the politics of the nation and 
governance. ?Apologetic words of a CM of a state, that police arrested the 
culprits and CM has no role in the arrests is atbest a reflection of an 
impotent ruler who has no courage to own acts of prosecution of evil 
criminals. ?
  Regards,
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lawrence Liang" <lawrence at altlawforum.org>
To: "ARNAB CHATTERJEE" <apnawritings at yahoo.co.in>
Cc: <reader-list at sarai.net>; <shuddha at sarai.net>; "Jeebesh Bagchi" 
<jeebesh at sarai.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Free expression for a Muslim Traitor-Alien 
orHindubetrayers?


> Hi Arnab and Jeebesh
>
> The doctors have given me permission to take a quick break from this
> very painful vasectomy to clarify and add a legal point; There is a
> clear distinction in the constitution between Art. 19 (freedom of
> speech) and Art. 21(right to life), and while Art 21 is available to  to
> all persons, Art. 19 is only available to citizens, which means  that
> non citizens do not have the same claim that citizens can in the case
> of  free speech, and hence do not have access to same remedies either.
>
> In any case i read jeebesh's posts as not making a legal argument but
> urging us to move beyond the rather narrow conceptual  frame of liberal
> legality, and explore the possibilities of a wider set of cultural
> resources through which we can think of hospitality, and again not as
> candy floss virtue ethic but as   forms of life
>
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> Lawrence
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