6/23/13, "Climate change 'screaming' for more global action: Kerry,"AFP via France 24
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Convicts are allowed
to remain
in office during appeals which can go on indefinitely;
6/20/13, "Number
of criminal MPs in Parliament is embarrassing: Jay Panda,"
firstpost.com
"Besides the massive backlog in our judicial system, our rules also
provide special and peculiar privileges to elected representatives who
face criminal charges. The most shocking of them is that even after
conviction, elected representatives are allowed to continue in office
even as the appeals process drags on. But of course, the bigger problem
is that cases don’t get to trial in a timely fashion in the first place.
My Bill providing for fast track courts to expedite criminal cases
against elected representatives within three months, augmented by
another Bill which would free up the appointment of prosecutors from
political interference, would deal a body blow to the scourge of
criminalisation of politics."...(near end of article)
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1/11/13, "CRIMINAL RECORD : A license to enter Parliament of India?!?!" bigreviews.net, Bhavin Agrawal
"Some ugly facts about Politicians of India:
If we focus on some figures, out of 552 strength of Lok Sabha,128 MPs elected in 2004 elections faced criminal charges.The BJP lead with 29 criminal MPs and Congress followed with 21 criminal MPs. Out of 128 MPs , 84 were charged with murder, 17 were charged with robbery and 27 were charged with theft, extortion! one MP led all 128 who faced 17 separate murder charges! Disgusting!
Recently, blogsites came out with a list of 10 most corrupt people in India. They were Sharad Pawar, Lalu, Mulayam. Mayawati, Jayalalitha, Kalmadi, A. Raja, Koda, Karunanidhi and Yeddyurappa. Toppers in Parliament!
In the recent ‘brutal’ rape case of Delhi, people asked SushilKumar for making stricter law for the rapists. He said he will raise it in parliament. Now what parliament members will do who themselves are facing rape charges!! Will they make punishment stricter for rape cases?? Answer is No Never. Either they will demoralize the law so as to escape from charges.
“In this parliament, rapists are sitting. In this parliament murderers and looters are sitting”, Arvind Kejriwal (Social Activist) once said at a rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad.
If we comment on recent political crisis in Jharkhand, Shibu soren ,Suprimo of JMM(Jharkhand Mukti Morcha) withdrew support from BJP and hence reducing it to minority. Here one person with multiple murder charges (Shibu Soren) can dissolve the govt itself! This happens in India! What a democracy!
Now what should be the resolution? Are we responsible for this? The question is too complicated. As a responsible citizen of India, what we can do is not to vote for candidates with criminal records.
We only hope that Anna Team and Kejriwal take up a mission to prevent criminals from entering the Indian Democracy by getting laws amended." image, Arvind Kejriwal – Social Activist from BigReviews.net
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"There is little noise being made by the civil society about the criminalization of Indian politics." It's common in India for convicted criminals to get a judge to 'suspend' the charges so he can run or remain in office.
10/31/11, "Cleanup Indian Politics Of Criminal MPs," countercurrents.org, Syed Ali Mujtaba
"Corruption and
Criminalization are two distinctive features of the Indian politics. The
crusade against corruption was loudly articulated by the social
activist Anna Hazare however, there is little noise being made by the
civil society about the criminalization of Indian politics.
As a matter of fact, one out of four MP in India
face criminal charges. There are 162 MPs in the current Lok Sabha, the
lower house of the Parliament that has criminal records. Out of these,
there are 76 MPs having serious charges against them.
The total number of criminal cases against the MPs is 522 and out of these 275 MPs face serious IPC sections charges against them.
The Bhartiya Janta Party has the highest number of
criminal MPs that is 43, out of which 19 have serious criminal cases
against them....
We have Members of Parliament who are being indicted by the judiciary
for various acts including accepting cash for exercising their vote in
Parliament." CAG concludes....
Obviously, there is an urgent need of electoral
reforms in this country that bars any convicted person from holding
office till they are finally acquitted by a court of law.
The current legal position relating to a person
convicted of criminal charges is that if the criminal charge, and not
just the sentence, is suspended on an appeal, he has the right to
contest elections.
One has to understand the nuance in the law and that
depends on what order the court gives. If the conviction is suspended,
then one can fight elections, if the sentence is suspended, which means
no jail, but conviction stands, until such time that the appeal is
heard, then one can not fight elections....
In fact, there is already a law in place
to rein in the corrupt MPs, but many of them have found loopholes into
it and have got stay order on their conviction to contest election.
Even the proposed amendment bill is being challenged
by some unscrupulous MPs. They have threatened to derail the new bill,
if and when, it comes for discussion at the all party meeting.
It’s an argument by those who have something to hide
and they will use all kinds of tactics to continue their domination in
power....
The redemption of Indian politics from all its banes is long haul and
cleaning Indian politics of criminal MPs could be a way forward for good
governance and betterment of the country."...via Climate Depot
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Organized crime loves AGW:
"Holcim valued the 1 million remaining missing carbon permits
at around 15 million euros ($19.54 million)."
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9/25/08, "Billions wasted in carbon offsets funds," UK Guardian
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4/20/10, "Buying Carbon offsets may ease eco-guilt but not global warming," CS Monitor, by Doug Struck
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10/8/10, "Murder on the Carbon Express: Interpol Takes on Emissions Fraud," Mother Jones, by Mark Schapiro
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7/16/10, "Carbon Trading Used as Money-Laundering Front," Jakarta Globe
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2/21/11, "Hackers target European carbon registries," USA Today, B. Acohido
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4/20/10, "Buying Carbon offsets may ease eco-guilt but not global warming," CS Monitor, by Doug Struck
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10/8/10, "Murder on the Carbon Express: Interpol Takes on Emissions Fraud," Mother Jones, by Mark Schapiro
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7/16/10, "Carbon Trading Used as Money-Laundering Front," Jakarta Globe
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2/21/11, "Hackers target European carbon registries," USA Today, B. Acohido
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