Here’s the headline on a Daily Kos post about the American school’s tax violations:
India to strip search teachers at American Embassy School (or not)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/15/1270000/-India-to-strip-search-teachers-at-American-Embassy-School-for-Visa-fraud-or-not
Here’s how it looks on Google search:
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Daily Kos: India to strip search teachers at American Embassy …
www.dailykos.com/…/-India-to-strip-search-teachers-at-American–Embassy…14 hours ago – New York Times is now reporting a significant visa ‘fraud‘ by American citizens who are teachers in the American Embassy School run in New …
You can’t see the part that denies the headline in the search result until you click on it. Cute, eh?
Now, India has done no such thing nor has it threatened to do such a thing, because it would be custodial RAPE in India.
But why let that spoil a header which will show up in Google searches and Twitter reposts WITHOUT the exculpatory phrase ” (or not)” visible and without the disclaimer in the body?
Remember, this is in a good alternative left blog, which is quite sophisticated in its understanding of politics and the shadow government.
Meanwhile, in the commentary on that post, someone also mischaracterized what happened to Khobragade as an aberration of US law and lamented the lack of sympathy among Indians for Sangeeta, the maid.
Don’t they get the point yet?
The outrage is over the fact that it is OFFICIAL POLICY of the United States, since 2012, sanctified by the Supreme Court, to conduct strip-searches with cavity inspection, upon any arrest, for whatsoever reason.
Custodial rapes might happen in India, but they’re not the policy. They’re crimes.
Big, big, big, difference.
And the US government custodially raped the senior female diplomat of a friendly nation over a visa practice that had been accepted for years and contracts that haven’t been proven to be in violation of law yet; and they did that even though the US position itself involves a violation of the Vienna Convention, which is the International Law governing diplomacy: the US A3 visa violates international law.
The arrest and search was done, moreover, in total breach of diplomatic protocol, while the state department officials actually enabled obstruction of the judiciary in India and violation of local tax laws.
Final point. The comments on the post suggest that Khobragade saw her children as American and were trying to return, come what may. This suggestion has shown up repeatedly in comments on the story online.
But it has no basis in fact that I can find.
Instead, this is what is being reported about her plans, in India:
“Asked about her daughter Devyani’s priority to bring back her two children to India, he said that they will be back next month.
“We will have to get their admissions done in a Delhi school to continue their education,” said Khobragade, who had served as general manager with BEST.”
Note: Daily Kos is the site started by Markos Moulitsas, who is alleged to have CIA-connections.