That would be the reaction of the world, at the attacks that India has suffered yet again. The PM’s message is not just disappointing but also irritating. The home minister is in hiding or may be he is busy for a bespoke jodhpuri suit. Is this what we expect from our leaders? Their demeanor in the face of such a crisis is plainly pusillanimous. Can these people be called our leaders by any stretch of imagination? There are no more words in the dictionary for unmanliness; as all have been exhausted describing our Home Minister’s reactions to terror attacks in the past. May be he is hiding for the fear that people might kill him if they get a chance. I would at the least spit in his face, on record, if not hit him.
I consider the leadership, nay, these representatives purely responsible for the death of 200 citizens and many foreigners. What right do these people have to leave us to die? They should not get away with such blood on their hands. If homicide is culpable, I feel such inaction on the part of the govt/agencies should be treated equally and should be made to face the law.
Corruption, kick-backs, nepotism, sleaze are all on one level and can be expected to an extent in a nation of a billion; but such inaction which endangers the lives of citizens should be treated on a different and much serious level. This can not and should not be tolerated by the nation.
System failure, intelligence failure, across the border, center list, state list, jurisprudence, bureaucracy, lack of personnel, outdated weapons, LeT, ISI... are all terms we hear every time after an attack. I don’t care what the reasons and excuses are. The leaders are not elected to list out reasons for their failures. The leader is supposed to act and deliver. Deliver safety and security for its citizens. This is the most basic aim for any government whether elected or usurped. Mr. Home Minister! If you can not do your job, get the fuck out of the office.
I am pained and angered not by the terrorists and the people across the border, but by our own ministers and politicians. We know there are these LeTs, Mujahideens, ISI, SIMIs etc, with in and across the border who are crouching and ready to swoop at us with the most satanic aims. So, what is the government doing to protect us? What extra mechanisms and measures has it come up with to face these threats? Instead of stepping up the security measures, the first thing this govt has done is to scrap tough laws against terror under the pretext of it being misused. On the same logic the internet should be banned as it is being misused; again by the terrorists. What say Mr. Prime Minister?
How ironic life could be! Prime Minister Mr. Singh, being a Sikh is acting so un-sikhly. He would do well if he remembered the faith of Guru Arjan Dev and Guru Gobind Singh and their actions in the face of terror. They preached the concept of liberty, equality, fraternity, self-defence and self-sacrifice. Dear Mr. Singh, Have you missed learning the principle of self-defence in your faith?
Guru Gobind Singh writes in Zafarnama:
“When all efforts to restore peace prove useless and no words avail,
Lawful is the flash of steel then, and right is the sword to hail.”
(The Epistle of Victory, 1390, Dasam Granth)
( http://www.gurmat.info/sms/smssikhism/gurus/)
Would your actions or rather stark inaction be approved by your gurus? What would you answer them when you go there?
And Mr. Home Minister, you being from the region of the erstwhile Hyderabad state, you do know terror and its ideology better than anyone as you would have faced it during the independence of Hyderabad state. It should have been easy for you to be attitudinally pro-active and take extra measures. But you instead showed utter diffidence and cowardice every time.
By the way, I understand you belong to the Lingayat sect. Would you please recollect what your faith says in ‘Ganachara’ of the ‘Panchachara’ principles? It says one should not tolerate ill-treatment of men and animals.
Again, an irony here is that the term ‘Linga’ connotes a sense masculine vigor; yet our Minister is so very … you know.
Mr. Patil, you were given not one, but many chances to set things right. But it only cost us hundreds of more lives. You are accountable for their murders.
Mr.Shivraj Patil, you have blood on your hands. And I hope this will haunt you for the rest of your life.
These congress men have made India a laughing stock in the world nations.
Shame..would be the word that sums up all my feelings; for these deaths are of our own making.
November 30, 2008
November 14, 2008
Hindu terror? Thanks to Govt's (in)action
Seems like the happiest group about this alleged Hindu terror is the English media in India, especially the english news channels; for they now have an issue that could be used, twisted, judged, polled for the next few days; gluing the nation to their channels.
'Hindu terror' just doesn't go down easily. It is because Hindus never believed in terror. Infact, they were terrorised so often. Hinduism is the only religion which accepts that it is ‘not’ the only true faith. Neither Islam, nor Christianity could even dream of being such a liberal religion. As kids, we hindus are taught that all religion are equal, which is a big lie; while other faiths teach their kids that theirs is the only true faith and all others are pagans and are to be persecuted. And that is perfectly fine with our adjusting Hindu mentality; coz we still want to be secular. Hindu kids, most of them, even the lower middle class and the poor ones go to either Govt run schools or private ones; where they learn secular subjects like math and science dreaming to become doctors and engineers for a better life. Even those who attend more traditional/religious schools study secular subjects along with religion, culture, values etc of this land and become patriots. Can this be said about the muslims kids who attend madrasas where they invariably are drowned into only Quran more often than not to learn Arabic, quranic (Arabic) traditions, values and the quran?
And speaking about our rule of the law; the bas***rd who almost succeeded in bombing our citadel of democracy, our parliament; is still not hanged, though the Supreme court has pronounced its judgement. This is how severe the impotence of our leaders is. Our leaders dont have the balls to take action. With a prime minister who needs to get permission from a white lady for taking any decision, at the helm of all the affairs; what else can be expected. The forces from across our borders bomb us time and again at will with impunity. The Home minister’s attitude would put even an eunuch to shame. The separatist in J&K have the temerity to host Pak flags and openly wish for 'Death to India' can do it with no resistance. The separatists in Nagaland can freely resort to sedition. And our central govt which is now in the control of one family waits and waits so that it does not lose votes.
Under such an inactive govt, the administration fails to deliver. When we view these so called terror attacks allegedly by Hindus, anyone with a heart and feelings would understand these to be a retaliatory attempts by a few who are deeply disturbed by the inaction of the state. Yet, law is not about feelings. So, it should take its own course and I hope it does. Let the guilty be punished. But before that we should punish people like Mohammad Afzal whom we are keeping alive just to risk more attacks and hijacks. Its time we realized that the govt is just as responsible as these perpetrators for these disturbances, just because of its inaction. Finally if there really were something like ‘Hindu terror’, the demographics of this country would have been very different.
'Hindu terror' just doesn't go down easily. It is because Hindus never believed in terror. Infact, they were terrorised so often. Hinduism is the only religion which accepts that it is ‘not’ the only true faith. Neither Islam, nor Christianity could even dream of being such a liberal religion. As kids, we hindus are taught that all religion are equal, which is a big lie; while other faiths teach their kids that theirs is the only true faith and all others are pagans and are to be persecuted. And that is perfectly fine with our adjusting Hindu mentality; coz we still want to be secular. Hindu kids, most of them, even the lower middle class and the poor ones go to either Govt run schools or private ones; where they learn secular subjects like math and science dreaming to become doctors and engineers for a better life. Even those who attend more traditional/religious schools study secular subjects along with religion, culture, values etc of this land and become patriots. Can this be said about the muslims kids who attend madrasas where they invariably are drowned into only Quran more often than not to learn Arabic, quranic (Arabic) traditions, values and the quran?
And speaking about our rule of the law; the bas***rd who almost succeeded in bombing our citadel of democracy, our parliament; is still not hanged, though the Supreme court has pronounced its judgement. This is how severe the impotence of our leaders is. Our leaders dont have the balls to take action. With a prime minister who needs to get permission from a white lady for taking any decision, at the helm of all the affairs; what else can be expected. The forces from across our borders bomb us time and again at will with impunity. The Home minister’s attitude would put even an eunuch to shame. The separatist in J&K have the temerity to host Pak flags and openly wish for 'Death to India' can do it with no resistance. The separatists in Nagaland can freely resort to sedition. And our central govt which is now in the control of one family waits and waits so that it does not lose votes.
Under such an inactive govt, the administration fails to deliver. When we view these so called terror attacks allegedly by Hindus, anyone with a heart and feelings would understand these to be a retaliatory attempts by a few who are deeply disturbed by the inaction of the state. Yet, law is not about feelings. So, it should take its own course and I hope it does. Let the guilty be punished. But before that we should punish people like Mohammad Afzal whom we are keeping alive just to risk more attacks and hijacks. Its time we realized that the govt is just as responsible as these perpetrators for these disturbances, just because of its inaction. Finally if there really were something like ‘Hindu terror’, the demographics of this country would have been very different.
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