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morbus cyclometricus |
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Jun 8, 06 - 3:21 AM |
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This is a story with a much better ending than what Professor Stewart expected, but it is one which raises serious questions.
1. How were Alexia and Gary, as tourists, able to set up shop in Goa ?
--- they weren't tourists, they lived in a rented house for for 6 months a year. over a number of years, they had developed some small waist height cubicles of masonry in the garden linked together with strange PVC plumbing pipes that were to be the foundations of a luxury lucrative flotation tank. also they had thought of making a cyber cafe, even though the nearest phone line was about 6 miles away.
it is all right to informally sell a couple of imported silks on the Goa and markets because of Indian trade laws.
2. When the Goa Police entered their rented accommodation, did they have a search warrant ?
yes, Alexia had convinced her boyfriend to spend time in a local Indian mental hospital so that he could get off heroin, or else she would leave him. (allegedly)
when he escaped, they came to visit their house, where he was hidden, and they also happen to find the drugs in the backyard. probably through asking the lady next door.
3. On what basis were they convicted in the first place?
the drugs in the backyard, the witnesses, the fingerprints on the drugs, the fact at least one of them tested positive for heroin, the fact that they gave false information when they were caught, she called herself Lucy sky and he called himself Larry sky when they were signing the Indian police papers.
4. Has the Goa Police held an internal audit into this case?
the important thing is not the Indian police, although they are fully corrupt and also fairly reasonable, the important thing is that the drugs law in India makes no sense. no doubt as part of some ministerial bribing from American sources.
5. Why has the Goa press not been more vocal about this apparent case of blatant extortion?
the point isn't that there was extortion, because there wasn't, there was only bribing for something that really happened, allegedly at this moment of bribing alexs boyfriend tried to attack one of the policeman or he got very out-of-control. he cost her quite a lot of money and mental energy and he wasn't worth the effort, and he had a volatile character.
6. If the Anti Narcotics Cell is warranted and effective, why are the non-Goan peddlers from North India so "active" on the beaches of North Goa?
Travellers converge on Goa for more parts of the world's and there's lots of trade to be had there. when I was there at the end of the goan traveller season, only the hard core of older travellers with a rented houses were there, and apparently about 50% were heroin addicts. that is a much more important issue.
7. Is Goa truly a Travelers' Paradise or just another Trap where unsuspecting tourists are waylaid by corrupt officials?
no it's a very nice place unless you plan on using it as a smoking den with cheap restaurants for six months of year and are naive and sedated enough to get caught by police. just near their house there was a 12 meter wide giant billboard which said that all drugs was punished with 10 years of jail. they are if warned. those were "wild times", she sais.
8. Are the details as reported in the UK Telegraph true ? If not, what is being done to restore the name of Goa in the International Press.?
This is a story with a much better ending than what Professor Stewart expected, but it is one which raises serious questions.
None of the details reported by any of the uk papers on this matter were true.
however, the melancholy story of how an educated girl found herself in such a situation purely through being overly candid, and the mental will she had to get through the prospect of a 10-year sentence are interesting.
The real issues of the story involve intelligent legislation, taking care of people with drugs problems, the fact that most Goan hotels have freshwater swimming pools but that ordinary Goan families have water shortages, and making sure trade and infrastructure runs all right in Goa... |
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