India following facist model according to Indian author 1710
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, harmony And, of course, we have lots of lawyers who will be...
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, me Child labor, in all advanced societies, is considered bad for the child...
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justice is blind, like love. surely, you have seen the lady justice with a balance and blondfold. i think you are getting mixed up in the indian politics which is...
The slavery in Indian rug factories is against the law -and requires better enforcement. Slavery in the USA is supported implicitly by the law. Your politicians receive money for ensuring that there is a steady stream of manpower on restricted rights. If americans have a heterogenity of opinion about doing away with illegals, H1Bs and numerous other workers on restricted rights -it is because they are not willing to disown the benefits of slavery in entirety.
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, are we on same page? Science is blind, too. It can be used for good or bad. Power is blind. It can be used...
Indentured labour was outlawed maybe 50 yrs back -but recently, the govt came out with specific legislation to prosecute individuals hiring child labour in specific circumstances. Labour when free, is labour and not slavery. You need to understand the difference between child labour and child slavery.
it boils down to whether the govt has restricted civic rights of individuals or not. Whether the labour is below age 12 or 18 is not relevant to the case.
yeah -people send their children to work because they are poor, not because they dislike them or because they are lesser humans or because the govt is conniving with businesses to perpetuate slavery i.e. hold them back against their will. I have even seen a shop keeper tell a kid working in a shop that if he doesn't work properly -he will tell his father about it. You can find lots of children working in India -doing mostly menial work in return for money. To change that, you need better employment oppurtunities for their guardians.
reservations are not a means to bring civil rights to lower caste people. They are a ploy to get votes by pitting lower caste people against upper caste people. The folks who advocate it are either politicians who want votes -or people who want to benefit from the same i.e. get a free ride on the basis of 3000 yrs of exploitation. They will talk of 3000 yrs back because the current situation does not justify that compensation. And americans will talk of it so that they can justify their own version of slavery.
looks like a drastic statement. I saw Larry Kind LIve discuss the fact that blacks are being turned away from voting booths, or their votes not fully accounted for -either by a dysfunctional voting mechanism or by keeping too few personnel so that they keep standing in line till midnight and then walk away due to time out.
Nope. Its pretty much a given that skin colour determines economic status in the US barring a few exceptions like athletes, movie stars etc.
regards -kamal