And no, not the NASCAR dudes with the quarter million dollar race cars.
It's the Hot-rod wielding "gonna whup you ass" Indian dudes in Jharkhand, India.
A women was stripped and brutally beaten with hot iron rods after she was branded a witch and held responsible for the death of a woman in a Jharkhand village, police said Monday.Some guy named Basdeo Manjhi said 45-year-old Chandmuni Devi had used black magic against his wife who actually died of snakebite on July 14. He complained to the panchayat(village bigwig), who then ordered that Chandmuni be stripped and beaten with hot rods and sickles.
Witch-hunt cases are rampant in Jharkhand. More than 600 people, mostly women, have been killed in last 10 years after they were charged of practicing black magic.I bring you this article just to remind you that these are the type people Bill Gates wants to bring into the U.S. to manufacture his products.
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"They accused me of casting an evil spell on their paddy crop that was destroyed in a fire. I begged them and told them I was not a witch," she said, showing wounds on her legs, thighs, hips and shoulders one recent morning in this village in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand.
After a police investigation, the men who attacked Manjhi were arrested. An official said that the attack was spurred by a powerful landowner who owned rice paddies in the village and used local superstition to mask his attempts to maintain control.
...an unscrupulous rich guy convinces the gullible people of his village to attack his enemies...
In a tribal society steeped in superstition, the spells of witches often are blamed for stubborn illnesses, a stroke of bad luck, the drying up of wells, crop failure or the inability to give birth to a son. But social analysts and officials said that superstition and faith in witchcraft often are a ploy for carrying out violence against women.
"Women from well-to-do homes in the village are never branded witches," Purwar said. "It is always the socially and economically vulnerable women who are targeted and boycotted."
...the victim is a poor, powerless scapegoat...
The nine men were charged under a Jharkhand state law that forbids accusing people of being witches. One of them was Gahan Lal, the man whose paddy had caught fire. Lal later confessed to torturing Manjhi.
"Gahan Lal was a powerful landlord. There were fights all the time in the village over land and wages," said Jayant Tirkey, the police officer investigating the case. "When his paddy caught fire, he blamed [Manjhi] for casting an evil spell. But that is merely an excuse. His real motive is to instill fear among the poor."
...but the rich guy convinces everyone that the scapegoat needs to be punished despite it being illegal...
"I never name a witch. I only give villagers some clues to find her," said Leena Oraon, who is known as a witch doctor in Aragate village and who says she studies rice grains to ascertain the presence of a witch in the village. "Today's doctors cannot cure ailments that are caused by a witch's curse. That is why people come to me."
...and uses evidence from an unreliable and unverifiable source as proof...
"People go scot-free because witnesses are hard to come by. Villagers often approve of the torture meted out to these women," said Girija Shankar Jaiswal, a lawyer who heads the organization. "They think witch-hunting is a heroic act and that it will clean the society of evil."
...and the rich guy gets away with it due to cultural brainwashing and tradition.
Wow, sounds familiar! These guys are more `MERICAN than they know.
Yup...
Should be running for president...
BFD: We've got a RCCult/funny-mentalist sycophant President who makes that guy look like a chump by comparison!
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