RES: [governance] Religiously objectionable material on the internet

[Carlos A. Afonso]

Incidentally, chasing poor people away and beating them is what the São
Paulo police is doing right now, in what they call a "cleansing"
operation against street crack victims, an operation which they
officially named "Pain and Suffering" (similarly to Bush's "Shock and
Awe", mind you).

This in richest city of the 6th world economy...

[]s fraternos

--c.a.

On 01/14/2012 12:04 PM, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> Vanda UOL <vanda at uol.com.br> wrote:
> 
>> Nothing is more offensive to any human "rights" than extreme
>> poverty, and everybody walks through people in the streets, begging,
>> hungry, in several parts of the world and I don't see people
>> complain for their rights!
> 
> When traveling in such a place I have witnessed the police addressing
> this issue by chasing these extremely poor people away, without any
> respect whatsoever for their dignity as humans.
> 
> It seems to me that somehow there is a lesson in this about the need
> to make sure that relatively minor inconveniences must not be
> addressed in ways that are worse than the original problem.
> 
> Greetings,
> Norbert
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