Re: Re: Defence Deals

[Padmanabha Rao <kvprao@igidr.ac.in>]

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Please help make the Manifesto better, or accept it, and propagate it!
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On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Lavlesh Lamba wrote:
 Corruption is Corruption no matter who finds it out , What differance it
 will make if it was me or you.

The existence of corrupt elements in the government is common knowledge.
That's a systemic problem in need of a solution.  What is not common
knowledge is the identity of those elements. I think it makes a difference
which of these two aims was the dotcom's. If it was to merely bring more
evidence, in a/v, about a corrupt government machinery it needn't have
bothered really. If it was about identifying some of the corrupt public
servants in the machinery then it has been a commendable job. We should
request the dotcom to release the unedited 100 hours of a/v it taped and
allow the citizenry to see/hear it and congratulate the investigators. And
perhaps tell us, before the government does, why it might have been
hounded by the IB sometime ago.

Thanks.

Padmanabha Rao


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