{"id":5859,"date":"2007-03-05T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T08:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2007-03-05T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T08:26:00","slug":"on-rave-parties-victimless-crimes-and-shooting-the-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/on-rave-parties-victimless-crimes-and-shooting-the-messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"On rave parties, victimless crimes and shooting the messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"

All the newspapers today are full of the “rave party”<\/a> that was busted by cops near Pune yesterday. It is a party that I might well have gone to in my youth (I never did drugs, but I did like to rebel), and I feel sorry for the kids who’ve been arrested for activities that harmed no one. It is a pity that so many victimless acts<\/a> are treated as crimes in our country. If I want to snort a little of whatever it is kids these days snort, what business is it of anyone else? Unlike cigarettes, where bystanders can be hurt by passive smoking, most recreational drugs don’t even harm anyone else.<\/p>\n

But then, who cares about individual freedom in this country?<\/p>\n

An aside<\/b>: And do check out the following line in Hindu<\/i> report”>the Hindu<\/i> report<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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All those arrested have been booked under the NDPS Act and Foreigners Act, while the police are also thinking of invoking provisions of the IT Act against them because the invitations for the party were sent via the Internet, he [the superintendent of police in Pune] said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s right, shoot the messenger. Bang bang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All the newspapers today are full of the “rave party”<\/a> that was busted by cops near Pune yesterday. It is a party that I might well have gone to in my youth (I never did drugs, but I did like to rebel), and I feel sorry for the kids who’ve been arrested for activities that harmed no one. It is a pity that so many victimless acts<\/a> are treated as crimes in our country. If I want to snort a little of whatever it is kids these days snort, what business is it of anyone else? Unlike cigarettes, where bystanders can be hurt by passive smoking, most recreational drugs don’t even harm anyone else.<\/p>\n

But then, who cares about individual freedom in this country?<\/p>\n

An aside<\/b>: And do check out the following line in Hindu<\/i> report”>the Hindu<\/i> report<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

All those arrested have been booked under the NDPS Act and Foreigners Act, while the police are also thinking of invoking provisions of the IT Act against them because the invitations for the party were sent via the Internet, he [the superintendent of police in Pune] said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s right, shoot the messenger. Bang bang. I’m surprised they haven’t banned the internet yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,15],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nOn rave parties, victimless crimes and shooting the messenger - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/on-rave-parties-victimless-crimes-and-shooting-the-messenger\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"On rave parties, victimless crimes and shooting the messenger - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"All the newspapers today are full of the “rave party” that was busted by cops near Pune yesterday. 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