No. If you only read the previous posts you would have known that I agree that the failure to notify the Indian side of the arrest is a violation of the VCCR and more importantly, I agree that a special arrangement should have been made on her arrest just to give importance to the special relationship between Indian and the US (but I don't agree that the arrest per se was illegal).
What should GOI/India do if a country which signed VCCR doesn't follow it?
What I'm arguing at length however is the legality of the case against her and the arrest. I'm also pointing out that the outrage in this case is a product of a huge misunderstanding brought about by the callous playing with public sensitivities about affronts to Indian pride. Hey this is election time in India? Which is irresponsible and dangerous.
Again.. whether this is election time or not, I would expect my the govt to respond in kind if any other nation doesn't respect Indian soverignity. US failed to respect Indian soverignity by flying the Richards family under T-visa by presuming India is a banana republic where laws are not followed. Where is the intense criticism of US govt. that you accord to GOI. I say double standards. We don't give this treatment to our worst enemies. In a country where Mahabharat(huge war in which both sides got annihilated completely similar to world war) happened because a women was stripped, what else would you expect? falling in line for more strip searches? There is no misunderstanding. If you see the timeline and actions of US state dept. it was aware of what it was doing.
I'm of the opinion that a lot of Indians are easily offended and that's not very mature. But I also pointed out in my earlier posts that I noticed that there are more Indians agreeing with the case against Khobragade.
Being too paranoid and doing strip and cavity searches for a diplomat at the consulate general level..and searching for what in her privates? Loads of dollar bills in her vajayjay which she saved by not paying to the maid? And that's mature enough not to warrant repetitive critisism from u?
I don't think the Indian public were sufficiently notified by GOI of the previous maid issues of your consuls in New York. It is clear from the comments of a lot of you that you have never thought long and hard about the previous incidents. Otherwise, you would not feel too surprised and taken aback now with the case against Khobragade.
In the previous cases, were the diplomats strip and cavity searched like this time? Just because there were cases before, we should get there is line to get strip and cavity searched?You failed again to understand why there was outrage this time and not before. And
@pmaitra believed that you understood. Too bad you let him down again.
She was strip searched but not "cavity searched." I agree with you that she should not have been subjected to being strip searched.
I would rather believe India than to believe the state department" is one of the comments. And many US citizens echoed that statement in different forms. I believe she was cavity searched as well. State dept has lost credibility by lying through their teeth day in and day out. What should be done in this case? If a person does mistakes, he/she will be jailed promptly by the govt. When US state dept does this, who is getting jailed. Before you answer with the compensation part, who is getting jailed and strip seached for this mistake? And how is her modesty going to come back. Thanks for agreeing with me on this, but where is your repeated criticism of US state dept in the way they conducted this affair?
Before you state any legality of anything, there is something called "in letter and in spirit". If US only follows laws and forgets the spirit in which the laws were made, there is no future for that kind of system. And you are supporting that system day in and dayout.
