Riot police didn’t fire a shot, but propaganda artillery in full barrage

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An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:

What is particularly sickening is how the propaganda machine is highlighting how the deceased, Sakthivel Kumaravelu, was inebriated when he tried to board the private bus for the journey back to his dormitory slightly after 9 pm, and how he was so far gone from self-control that he lowered his trousers. This exercise in character assassination is being used to subtly communicate how unjustified the riot was, and on the flip side, how justified the authorities will be in making an example of the arrested men.

I see it differently. I see the state machine dehumanising a man to serve its less-than-honourable aims. By the same token, it can be said that when bystanders reacted strongly (and unfortunately violently) to the death of Kumaravelu, however drunk he was, they were reacting with concern for Kumaravelu’s humanity. That said, this must be balanced against the reported attacks on the bus driver and bus co-ordinator (sometimes reported as the “bus assistant” or “ticket-seller”). But even so, it strikes me as a poignant contrast between an uncaring state that callously resorts to character assassination as a tool and a group of people who reacted with emotional concern.

However drunk Kumaravelu was, nobody deserves to die.

- http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/20...-full-barrage/


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