Dear Friends,

This is regarding  blog www.maoistresistance.blogspot.com

As per the blogger police taken his system to custody and they are
investigating the datas in the hard disk and they informed nearby
cybercafe's not to allow the blogger to browse and agents from the
state always monitoring his movements.

I see that nobody on this list has expressed outrage at this violation
of a blogger's birthright of freedom of speech! I am not sure if I can
argue free sppeech for someone who calls for "armed struggle" in the
name of Chairman Mao, but hey, what happened to the supportes of
absolute free speech on this list! Where did the comrades disappear!

shivam

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Peoplesmovementsupportgroup

Disappointed by the lack of enthusiasm of Indian bloggers on regular attacks
on freedom of speech and direct and indirect censorship, the comrades are
now taking a spin. Now, all that the blog
http://maoistresistance.blogspot.com does is gather RSS feeds from various
news outlets and other public sources about CPI(Maoist) and put it on a
blog. Nowhere does it express any opinion, for or against "armed struggle in
the name of Chairman Mao". What is the police doing examining data on a
personal computer and asking cyber cafes not to allow someone to surf the
net, that too without any warrants. If you don't support free speech of
those who are victimized by the state, you don't support free speech at all.

~Anoop

Sorry Shivam and Anoop, and thanks for the reminder. It completely slipped
my mind to go look at this site. Am going there now...
d.

Shivam/Anoop, I would partially echo Dilip in this regard. I hadnt
even looked at this thread until now. So thanks for the reminder. I
will also look at the blog now. But even if they called for an armed
struggle in the name of Maoist ideals, I would support their right to
talk about it.

If you remember, when this group was formed, a lot of the blogs
blocked or banned were of a similar nature and most of us were
unequivocal in supporting their right to free speech, along with other
sorts of blogs.

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I'm unable to understand what is objectionable about  
maoistresistance.blogspot.com. As Anoop points out, it is just a  
collection of news stories.

I'd also like some confirmation of what happened to Bimal CK. Any  
news item about this police action against his hard disk? Did it  
happen because of maoistresistance.blogspot? If so, why? Apart from  
FoS issues, what's illegal about gathering news and putting it on a  
blog? If it didn't happen because of maoistresistance.blogspot, why  
did it happen?

Something doesn't add up. Anybody on this list with more details?

yours,
dilip.

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Dilip D'Souza -- feedback: dilip...@gmail.com
Death Ends Fun: http://dcubed.blogspot.com

Hi Friends,
I am the one entered this issue in this group.As i know after the
arrest of Malla shekhara reddy,govindan kutty and some other Human
rights activists and the latest interview of Comrade Mohan (Cpi maoist
state organizing secretary as medias say) regarding armed struggle in
kerala drove kerala police in a crazy way.Now police is looking on
politicians human rights activists and alleging all HR people are
naxalites or terrorists.Bimal was working with RDF as i know .

I am going to get the report of police report regarding his
system.When i get i will forward all of you.

Regards,

Aneeb

On Mar 21, 9:18 am, Dilip D'Souza -- feedback <dilip...@gmail.com>
wrote: