*SHAME, SHAME, SHAME ON THE GOA POLICE ARREST ON FR. BISMARQUE BLACK FLAG PROTEST, POLICE ARREST 21.11. 2015 *
Can Police arrest you for using camera at public meet, protest meet etc? Today, at Fr. Bismark Protest meet Panaji, I was arrested by Dy Sp or SP Umesh Gaonkar.. He says only Media people are allowed.. I took this pic after I was released - he is seen in the middle https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/22805969429/ *IS IT DEMOCRACY OR AUTOCRACY! IS THIS NOT A JUNGLE RAJ by Goa Government to arrest peaceful protesters who did nothing wrong but their only crime was a grievance and presence was to be there to raise a voice of contempt and Black Flag Protest for the sad demise of Fr. Bismarque Dias who died under mysterious circumstances so to be.* *Looking at JoeGoa’s Video I was, very, very angry the way Police arrested and marched people in Police van. This act by them is most deplorable act and should be condemn by all right thinking people of India and citizens of Goa alike.* *Why on earth these peaceful protesters arrested and under whose command the green signal given to arrest them as if they had committed a most dreadful crime just like it happened recently in Paris Bombing by ISIS.* *Had it to actually happen in Goa what Goa Police would have done, would they be able to arrest the Bombers or would they too would be vaporized into the thin Air like the suicide bombers themselves. Just at that moment I was seething in anger and my blood was boiling that I felt had I a machine gun at that moment I would turned it on Goa Police first and massacred them all into bits of pieces little realizing what consequences i would have to bear but for the love of my motherland and my people would come first then anything else on this earth. * *Mind you, this Act by the Police goes to show highhandedness in nexus with the Goa Politicians and the vested interests need to be condemned by all right thinking citizens. Such acts by the Police should not be repeated moreso on peaceful protesters who having done nothing wrong, nor a crime or an offense or any disorderly situation that warrants police arrest.* *A day shall come to pass if the Police don’t behave themselves in public to guard the peoples safety rather act with high handedness and arrest people on flimsy grounds or for no fault of theirs then they may have to pay a heavy price if the situation goes out of hand. Is this is not Jungle Raj.* *Mind you, if tomorrow things go bad Goa. A Paris like situation could prevail and Goa Police would be first at the receiving end with Politicians dead on sight.* *'So be wise Goa Police and Goa Politician'.* *The World is Watching’ You.* *Sam Furtado* *Ex-Officer Russian Consulate* *Mumbai*