--- On Sun, 10/26/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. Santosh has arrogated to himself the right to pass > judgement on others, label or brand those who hold contrary > views from his and decide what is the truth and what is not. >
False. Most of the times, I try to question the truth of, and sometimes pass judgment on, what a person writes, not the person himself. Granted a few times I have referred to them as militant activists because of the single-minded nature of the activity they are engaged in in this public forum. Those who pass judgment and use labels call their detractors apologists for or sympathizers of the sangh parivar. What is worse is that they abuse the latter by announcing in a public forum that they possess a sick and prejudiced mind. Please see the quote below: "Can any of these reports by any stretch of imagination be termed as ‘partisan’, ‘propaganda’ and ‘rumour mongering’, except by a sick, biased or prejudiced mind?" ......Marshall Mendonza > > The meaning of propaganda is misinformation, party line, > half truths. Can Santosh substantiate this ? > Here are examples of misinformation spread by Marshall: "Reports by RSS aligned writers like Francois Gauntier and Sudheendra Kulkarni are applauded as ‘broad perspectives’" ......Marshall Mendonza I have never applauded these writers. "Santosh was enamoured by S Gurumurthy’s article which he posted on the net (to his credit he later withdrew his remarks once he came to know the loyalties of Gurumurthy). But the fact remains that he found the article by Gurumurthy credible enough in the first instance." ...........Marshall Mendonza I have never stated that I found this article credible. > > He terms the reports partisan and rumour mongering. > I have termed only some of the reports partisan and rumor mongering. I had already given examples of partisan reports earlier. Here is the link to that post. http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-September/080851.html Here are the examples again: 1. http://www.goanet.org/post.php?name=News&list=goanet&info=2008-September/date&post_id=080178 This article badmouths the Hindu swami whose killing triggered the Orissa riots. 2. http://www.goanet.org/post.php?name=News&list=goanet&info=2008-September/date&post_id=080796 Marshall Mendoza posted the above report implying that this incident is connected with the attacks by Hindu extremists on Christians elsewhere. However, if you read it you find that the two arsonists were unidentified. How does one know that they were Hindu extremists? Why not communist extremists, troublemakers or copycats? 3. http://www.goanet.org/post.php?name=News&list=goanet&info=2008-September/date&post_id=080061 The above article gratuitously tells us about the activities of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in relation to the communal violence. A clear example of rumor-mongering is the following wherein Marshall forwarded a post with the sensational title "Catholic nun burnt alive in Orissa". The truth is that a Hindu girl was burned. http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-August/079429.html Cheers, Santosh
