Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
On 10/17/06, sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: clones of each other with battering ram rhetoric Hey, ease up! I've kept out of this so far! Ram

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread ashok _
Well.. bhutan, nepal and various other landlocked countries around the world come to mind.nation states which have problems but are recognizable entitiesi think its worth a try letting kashmir fend for itself as an independent country, it should be upto them to figure out a waynot t

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread Deepa Mohan
carnation-behind-ear kumbaya singing spam gurus   talk about striking imagery...trying to stop laughing long enough to type.   Deepa.

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 17/Oct/2006, at 5:19 PM, Badri Natarajan wrote: Just to clarify this - the Supreme Court does not issue "public statements". I haven't read their judgment but I am assuming this was a comment made in passing in the judgment when discussing the powers of the Supreme Court in relation to a

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread Badri Natarajan
> The SC has also issued a public statement that they have the right to > review a Presidential pardon, should one be forthcoming. Just to clarify this - the Supreme Court does not issue "public statements". I haven't read their judgment but I am assuming this was a comment made in passing in the

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: > Is that the question - or is it about having the death penalty at all? > > There are enough horror stories from the US about people being > executed and proven innocent much later. > > Also, Suresh, is a fair trial at all possible in such cases? Given the long hist

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
On 10/17/06, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: sastry [17/10/06 14:35 +0530]: >Hang the sodden murderer and feed his carcass to the pigs - or set it alight >with a copy of this email. hang him by all means - just see that he gets a fair trial first. Is that the question - or i

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
sastry [17/10/06 14:35 +0530]: Hang the sodden murderer and feed his carcass to the pigs - or set it alight with a copy of this email. hang him by all means - just see that he gets a fair trial first.

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 17/Oct/2006, at 3:54 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: Afzal was a surrendered terrorist from the JKLF. It is alleged that he was made an STF pawn and the real reason for rushing his execution is to cover up Indian military atrocities in Kashmir. This isn't a case of the intelligentsia preen

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 17/Oct/2006, at 3:01 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: Not knowing enough to have an independent opinion on the matter, and not having the copious free time to read your forward, I ask, was he guilty of the bombings? If he was not, or if there is a popular body of opinion that believes he

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: Apropos recent events. It is no wonder that they call it "India Occupied Kashmir". Not knowing enough to have an independent opinion on the matter, and not having the copious free time to read your forward, I ask, was he guilty of the bombings? If he was not, or i

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread Badri Natarajan
> How come these carnation-behind-ear kumbaya singing spam gurus didn't weep > when people were being murdered in Delhi and Mumbai? > Shiv, Why this sudden spate of posts on these topics from you? I've seen it on and off on BR when I lurk there, but hardly on anything on silk for years.. I'm no

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 17/Oct/2006, at 2:35 PM, sastry wrote: Hang the sodden murderer and feed his carcass to the pigs - or set it alight with a copy of this email. How come these carnation-behind-ear kumbaya singing spam gurus didn't weep when people were being murdered in Delhi and Mumbai? Easy on the la

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread sastry
Hang the sodden murderer and feed his carcass to the pigs - or set it alight with a copy of this email. How come these carnation-behind-ear kumbaya singing spam gurus didn't weep when people were being murdered in Delhi and Mumbai? shiv On Tue October 17 2006 8:11 am, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote

[silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-16 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
Apropos recent events. It is no wonder that they call it "India Occupied Kashmir". Begin forwarded message: From: Shuddhabrata Sengupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 16 October, 2006 10:57:06 PM GMT+05:30 To: sarai list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending E