Back to regular blogging
Before I do that, let me make some final comments on my father's acquittal:
1) The acquittal generated a lot of passionate support and happiness amongst various segments of the actively panthic or (media-term) "fundamentalist" Sikh community. For many of them, I can see why. They knew that the case was extremely weak and that the charges were fundamentally untrue. For those people, I can understand their joy and happiness. The entire panth generally sighs relief when innocent Singhs are released from prison, whether that be in India or anywhere else. Now, there's a very small amount of people who just confuse me. They probably make up about 0.01% of the community (almost all of them being young people I think) who probably had no reason to believe that my dad was innocent, but they were happy anyway. Whether my dad did it or not was inconsequential for a few people. They were prepared to support him anyway. Now, I KNOW that my father is innocent, a lot of others reached that conclusion fairly easily after reviewing the evidence, but I don't get the very small group of people for which innocent/guilty didn't matter, they were simply ready to support my dad no matter what. Those people are mostly ignorant and less evil I'd imagine, or I hope at least, because if I sensed that Singhs were actually behind the bombing, I would disassociate myself with them immediately.
2) An obnoxious lefty blogger made an obnoxious comment under one of my recent posts a couple of days ago. He said something to the effect that most conservatives think my father was guilty, so I'm obviously deluded because I'm a "Conservative". First, I don't care if people think my father was guilty, whether they be conservative, liberal, socialist, communist or anything else. I know that my father was not guilty. The judge very clearly dismissed all of the "evidence" against him, every last witness. If more conservatives than liberals believe something without any rational reason, then so what? Is that somehow going to change my views on the individual-state relationship? On tax-policy? On other issues of public policy? I don't understand.
Okay, I'm going to write up a few posts after this, so "regular blogging" begins now.
1) The acquittal generated a lot of passionate support and happiness amongst various segments of the actively panthic or (media-term) "fundamentalist" Sikh community. For many of them, I can see why. They knew that the case was extremely weak and that the charges were fundamentally untrue. For those people, I can understand their joy and happiness. The entire panth generally sighs relief when innocent Singhs are released from prison, whether that be in India or anywhere else. Now, there's a very small amount of people who just confuse me. They probably make up about 0.01% of the community (almost all of them being young people I think) who probably had no reason to believe that my dad was innocent, but they were happy anyway. Whether my dad did it or not was inconsequential for a few people. They were prepared to support him anyway. Now, I KNOW that my father is innocent, a lot of others reached that conclusion fairly easily after reviewing the evidence, but I don't get the very small group of people for which innocent/guilty didn't matter, they were simply ready to support my dad no matter what. Those people are mostly ignorant and less evil I'd imagine, or I hope at least, because if I sensed that Singhs were actually behind the bombing, I would disassociate myself with them immediately.
2) An obnoxious lefty blogger made an obnoxious comment under one of my recent posts a couple of days ago. He said something to the effect that most conservatives think my father was guilty, so I'm obviously deluded because I'm a "Conservative". First, I don't care if people think my father was guilty, whether they be conservative, liberal, socialist, communist or anything else. I know that my father was not guilty. The judge very clearly dismissed all of the "evidence" against him, every last witness. If more conservatives than liberals believe something without any rational reason, then so what? Is that somehow going to change my views on the individual-state relationship? On tax-policy? On other issues of public policy? I don't understand.
Okay, I'm going to write up a few posts after this, so "regular blogging" begins now.
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