{"id":20734,"date":"2012-12-23T23:40:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T05:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drishtikone.com\/?p=20734"},"modified":"2012-12-23T23:40:52","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T05:40:52","slug":"delhi-protesters-had-to-be-engaged-heard-and-spoken-to-instead-they-were-lathi-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2012\/12\/delhi-protesters-had-to-be-engaged-heard-and-spoken-to-instead-they-were-lathi-charged\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi Protesters had to be engaged, heard, and spoken to&#8230; instead they were Lathi charged!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I agree with Kiran Bedi here.\u00a0 All those 5 people were missing.<\/p>\n<p>This bloody Government is only good at blaming others\u2026 from BJP, to Team Anna to Arvind Kejriwal\u2019s party to Baba Ramdev.\u00a0 They themselves are a bunch of goons!\u00a0 Look in this video at how the policemen are hitting at the young girls!\u00a0 It is extremely shameful!!\u00a0 What they are doing is NO different than what the gang rapists had done to the girl..<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"no-eff img-link lightbox decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/?attachment_id=20742\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20742\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20742\" alt=\"protest1\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.patheos.com.S3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/sites\/356\/2012\/12\/protest1.jpg\" width=\"600\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"no-eff img-link lightbox decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/?attachment_id=20743\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20743\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" 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