Posted by: Poonte March 29, 2005
Pictures of the NY RALLY
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Even though I normally hold great reservations to responding to emotionally-charged, rash, sometimes venom-filled comments, regardless of how relevant the comments might be, I think I will make an exception with GORKHALI-X this time. First, this is my very first encounter with him; and second, he actually does raise some valied points that I feel I need to address. THE SUSPECTS: I was very intrigued by the information that a team was sent from Nepal, at the government's expense, to organize pro-king rallies in the US. Hence, I was obviously curious to know who they were at the rally. I broached the subject with one of the organizers, and he brushed off the idea as if he wanted to avoid commenting on it. Therefore, I had no choice but to look around, study people, and perhaps assume on the basis of SUSPICIONS who they might have been. No, the SUSPICIONS were not based on who was wearing a dhaka topi or not -- 2 out of three pictures of individuals that I have labeled as "suspects" are not wearing dhaka topis, and there were few others who were wearing those topis whom I have not included on the "suspects" list. Rather, regardless of what they were wearing, I based my assumption on individual behaviors at the rally -- on things like who they were mostly associating with, how some of them were constantly seeming to direct the flow of the program and, on the case of one of them, how he was being very suspiciously keenly observant of the surroundings, particularly the people. Mind you, I had only posted the pictures calling them "suspects," which obviously implied that I could have been wrong. And if anyone wanted to prove my suspicions wrong by putting forth appropriate reasoning (I did not deem brun42's comments on one of the pictures as being such), I'd have gladly acecepted mistake and duely apologized. Having said that, on a hindsight, I do realize that posting pictures of particular individuals with the comments that I had was probably wrong, regardless of how justified my suspicions might have been. Therefore, I have already asked the administrator to remove those pictures. My apologies to any individuals whom I might have WRONGLY offended by my original decision to post their pictures.
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