{"id":117,"date":"2007-11-28T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vicknes.wordpress.com\/2007\/11\/28\/bell-in-danger\/"},"modified":"2007-11-28T17:43:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T17:43:00","slug":"bell-in-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/bell-in-danger\/","title":{"rendered":"Bell in danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First he gave such a negative impression and comment about Indians who took part in the hindraf rally. The very next day, after being questioned in parliament by the opposition leader, track changed and supporting Indians fate. i do not know is it something to be said good or bad, to be trusted or to be go against of&#8230;.politicians are really confusing mankind..<br \/>Below is the mentioned interview video clip and script with al-jazeera<\/p>\n<p><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\"><\/span><\/tt><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\">Q: Why then if there is a democratic process in  place, you do not allow<\/span><\/tt><br \/><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\">protests to  take place. These people have requested a permit but  you<\/span><\/tt><br \/><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\">turned it down. Why is it  necessary?<\/span><\/tt><\/p>\n<p><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\">A: I think the  intention was wrong. I think because religion was used<\/span><\/tt><br \/><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\">and religious issues are very sensitive in this part of the  nation. <\/span><\/tt><br \/><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\">We<\/span><\/tt><br \/><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\">are a multi-religious nation and things can go out of place  and emotions<\/span><\/tt><br \/><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\">are  flaring.<\/span><\/tt><\/p>\n<p><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\">Q: Hold on a minute,  you seem to be suggesting the protesters are<\/span><\/tt><br \/><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\">causing the violence but in fact it was not the case. It was  clearly the<\/span><\/tt><br \/><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\">police that were taking  the aggressive stance by firing tear gas and<\/span><\/tt><br \/><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\">spraying chemicals through water cannons. They were not  provoked by the<\/span><\/tt><br \/><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\">protesters.<\/span><\/tt><\/p>\n<p><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\">A: We have to see the type of people that came for the  demonstration.<\/span><\/tt><br \/><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\">I am not there but I  wish that the demonstrators are matured and know<\/span><\/tt><br \/><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\">how to handle themselves.<\/span><\/tt><\/p>\n<p><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\">Q: Sir, what do you mean by the type of people. Are you  referring to the<\/span><\/tt><br \/><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\">fact that these  people are of Indian ethnicity? Is that something that<\/span><\/tt><br \/><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\">the government cannot accept : Indians taking to the  streets?<\/span><\/tt><\/p>\n<p><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\">A: No, No, I don't  think so. I don't think so. The fifth prime minister<\/span><\/tt><br \/><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\">has been giving tremendous allowances for openness and errh,  feedbacks<\/span><\/tt><br \/><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\">from the people, the press  has been given freedom, legislatively freedom<\/span><\/tt><br \/><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\">has been given the last four  years.<\/span><\/tt><\/p>\n<p><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\">Q:  OK.<\/span><\/tt><\/p>\n<p><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\">A: And the result of this  response is because also of the openness.<\/span><\/tt><br \/><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\">And I think the reactions could be instigated by one or two  incidences<\/span><\/tt><br \/><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\">which could have been  overshot, overblown and there is a reason. A<\/span><\/tt><br \/><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\">layman doesn't exactly know what is being  done.<\/span><\/tt><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><tt><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\"><\/span><\/tt><\/span>But the sad news now is, you should either supported one party, rite? see, now even your own so called backup national party branded you as <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/11\/28\/nation\/19595839&amp;sec=nation\">robin hood<\/a> and told to resign if were to <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/11\/28\/nation\/19593564&amp;sec=nation\">support the naive indians<\/a>.thehveya sir? ungakalukkum sothinathan fate thaana?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First he gave such a negative impression and comment about Indians who took part in the hindraf rally. The very next day, after being questioned in parliament by the opposition leader, track changed and supporting Indians fate. i do not know is it something to be said good or bad, to be trusted or to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/bell-in-danger\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bell in danger&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}