Someone had to pay. I am one of those who felt that not enough paid.
Of course you are right. But did you mean that the wrong people should pay? You run over a dog, your brother gets fined and jailed, you get away scot-free. Which part of that do you support?
A would-be fidayeen was neutralized.
SHAMEFUL.
It was you who talked of preventive detention. What happened? You couldn't detain a young woman just out of her teens? You had to have her drugged, taken out to a deserted spot, and shot in cold blood by a ring of policemen? Indian democracy died a bit that day.
Again, I bring in the US. Forget Russia and China.
There are issues where lawyers never come in.
True.
Now name me the issues where justice and the rule of law do not come in.
Would they do the same to the bomber in India? Give him legal recourse?
I suspect you know there is nothing India can do or has done that would come close to what would follow.
Ask yourself that, and answer it yourself. Why are we proud of being Indian? Would you rather live in Pakistan? or in Saudi Arabia?
I'll happily take my words back the next time someone warns the general populace about an impending attack.
Or turns over an obviously radicalized youth planning an attack.
You don't have to. You can shift to a police state like North Korea, or worse, the PRC (pronounced - oh, well, never mind). Or Russia.
You mentioned the US. When did someone warn the general populace about an impending attack, in the US? When did someone turn over an obviously radicalised youth planning a mass killing in his school, for instance?
So what's the hue and cry about? Let the authorities do their job. If there is something more afoot, let people disappear. Why do you want to waste our time and already strained resources? Are we Norway?
There is a process. And it is not the non-process followed by Chhappanincheshwar or his toadying bastard, Amit Shah.
Nothing at all. Terrorists deserve nor get none of the above.
Well, that is what is happening today. All over.
Do you deny the competence of the people in charge to do their jobs? Do you doubt their integrity?
There are two men outside your bedroom door at night. Both have guns.
One is RSN Singh. The other is Yakub Memon.
Will you be calling a lawyer Joe?
No.
But I will be calling the police. In both cases. I doubt the integrity of RSN Singh if he said what he said. I know enough bent police officers, and I also know the finest of his breed, who practised what he preached and brought us through. He was a favourite of both our Field Marshals, by the way. I add that for historical interest. The first one scarfed his chicken curry, the second one bollocked his Major Generals (he was then the GOC-in-C Eastern Command) for completing an exercise he had set in three times the time that this officer took.
So put that in your pipe and smoke it. I know the difference, and it is huge