India’s Downward Spiral

Post by known » Thu, Oct 23, 2014, 11:38 AM UTC

tn13 wrote: post #37

One of the biggest difference between US and India is the constitution. Indian constitution does not give freedom of speech to its people. So government can pass all sort of laws. The 1st amendment to US constitution gives people freedom of speech and ensures that government can not pass any laws against it. On the other hand all the "rights" that Indian constitution gives are subject to other government approvals wh…

Post by known » Thu, Oct 23, 2014, 11:59 AM UTC

Post by 3838 » Sat, Oct 25, 2014, 6:59 PM UTC

virtuabhi wrote: post #138

3838 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

other governments have proposed similar things - in europe there is a widespread distrust of these systems because they were used very effectively by the Nazi's - record keeping in the Netherlands was very good - 75% of jews were killed, in france the people collecting data conspired to protect jews by not punching the jew slot on the punched card and only 25% were killed a belgian company sold an ID system to the rw…

I do not agree with the point that if Nazis used X to kill Jews then we should not use X. For example, Nazis used trains to transport arrested Jews. No government should build railroads then? "these systems are deadly in the wrong hands" - In the context of this thread, I hope you are not comparing Indian government with the Nazis. Such a comparison would be misusing the Nazi term and insulting the severity of crimes…