Government goes witch-hunting

[emad]

Government goes witch-hunting

Shubhangi Khapre
Friday, November 25, 2005 01:51 IST


The state government will move a Bill to fight the evils of black magic in the assembly’s winter session.

Chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Thursday held a meeting with opposition leaders to discuss the Bill. The winter session of the assembly will commence from December 5 in Nagpur.

In principle, all the parties gave their consent to the proposed Bill, but wanted some more time to study the parameters in detail.

A copy of the draft Bill that was circulated for discussion said, “The Bill seeks to bring social awakening and awareness in society and to create a healthy and safe social environment with a view to projecting the poor and ignorant people in society against the evil and sinister practices and customs thriving on blind faith and beliefs propagated in the name of god or some so called divine or supernatural or magical powers or evil spirits commonly known as black magic by so-called godmen, quacks and conmen with the sinister motive of exploiting and harming mentally, physically and financially the poor and ignorant people in the society and thereby destroying the social fibre of society.”
http://dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=11318&CatID=1

[xchrom]

1. i wish we could move that kind of bill forward against fundies.

i had to add on edit -- i just can't help it -- if they're gonna feel persecuted anyway -- might as well give them something to feel persecuted about.

[emad]

2. My thoughts exactly. Posted this story because of the irony of

US agendas today.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

3. You are very naughty

[xchrom]

4. true -- i am naughty.