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August 27, 2007 at 3:21 am
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People are dead. People are injured, some decapitated - worse than death, that. Families are shattered, a whole generation is mourning. There’s talk, there’s analysis, there’s blame. But there’s not enough action - first to prevent it and then to counter it. I don’t care if anyone does think they’re trying their best. If this is the ‘best’ we can do in the event of a terrorist attack, then hey, we’ve screwed up somewhere.
And while people are blaming each other, some are defending them. Um, are we missing something here? Pardon me, for this is a point done-to-death, but it’s quite salient, so I’ll make it again.
There is a fundamental difference when bombs go off in India and America. We don’t retaliate.
And that sucks. It pains me to think that we should look at the Americans for inspiration on anything of national interest, but here I am.
If there were twin blasts in New York, Uncle Sam - who might have his brains where other orbs ought to be - would have ensured that he nukes the rears of a thousand ‘terrorists’ (who could just be innocent Muslims, but hey - you think Bush can tell the difference?). Eerily, it seems there is an anti-Muslim propaganda taking birth from these events. Maybe someday the leaders will wake up and realise that there’s a political agenda, and nothing else. If indeed, these are Muslim outfits, then they are horribly far from their religion, and they ought to be exterminated anyway.
But we, on the other hand, do very, very little to lose them. When have you heard of R&AW’s counter-intelligence officials assasinating ISI agents? When have you heard of a planned military offensive on targets in Pakistan and Kashmir to counter terrorism?
We can’t have this. We just can’t have cowardly eunuchs scare us, and then kill us. My heart goes out to the people of Hyderabad, many of whom are scared to walk out in the open. I genuinely hope the Army and Intelligence work together to realise their fundamental objective - National Security. I hope they find out exactly who was behind all this. I hope they hunt down every one of manhood-deficient rogues in those sleeper cells. I hope they put everything else aside, and focus entirely on eradicating terrorism from the city. Not being able to walk free is the shittiest feeling one can ever encounter, and that’s what many in Hyderabad would be thinking about now. It’s mass murder. It’s bloody genocide.
I also hope that we will counter-attack - both strategically and tactically. And fast. We ought to kill them, not before feeding their intimate parts to the strays.
And Gandhism you better sit this one out. Because folks, we are at war. Again.
The only differences in this war - the victims are civilians, the enemy is an illegitimate coward who isn’t even blessed between his legs with the courage to stand up and fight like a man for his baseless cause, and the battlefield is the city.
It could be your home next. Or mine.
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I can accept the lapses in the decent writing here and there considering the hurt that has caused the writer. But a little moderation would help. I am not a flag waving nationalist, but a humanist. I think terrorism is bad news both for us and the terrorists.
There isn’t enough emotion in the world. The little that there is has hidden it’s scared face under the protective wings of the cruelty condor. And the only thing taking flight are fanciful frights.
You and me both are sitting ducks. There are enough problems in the world as it is, and that’s not even counting the millions that go hungry because the state coffers are paying off some obtuse “national debt”. If there is a debt, it’s the deficiency of our own souls.
If you are looking to fill your agenda of making a point, there are far more civilized ways of going about it, most of which have dignified venerable people who cough politely and gently shove the issues aside. But then, there’s apathy anyway. Point noted. Tossed aside.
May your voice be a squeak worth. That’s loud enough. Until you and me both forget it all.
Vini wrote @ August 27th, 2007 at 8:43 am
When the people killed are Indians and that too civilians, Shivraj Patil can well cut that crap of private business and answer……And rather than follow Uncle Sam..can those pigheads follow the “National Conscience” that they all keep harping on…When do they start thinking that politics is beyond counting numbers and arranging adhesives to stick their butts to their chairs and making caricature of the entire system on national television??
amreen wrote @ August 27th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
terrorism… hatred …. violence …. hurt…. pain…. this is how we live today… an unfortunate truth. i dun think v can go far with this attitude
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Off-topic, I know, but regarding the mention of Gandhism, one should always know the truth about history. Here’s some of what Gandhi believed:
http://gandhism.net
Note: All quotes are from the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (CWMG).
“When one reflects that the conception of Brahmanism, with its poetic and mysterious mythology, took its rise in the land of the ‘Coolie trader,’ that in that land 24 centuries ago, the almost divine Buddha taught and practised the glorious doctrine of self-sacrifice, and that it was from the plains and mountains of that weird old country that we have derived the fundamental truths of the very language we speak, one cannot but help regretting that the children of such a race should be treated as equals of the children of black heathendom and outer darkness.”
>>Reference: Vol. I, p. 225
“The Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.”
>>Reference: Vol. I, p. 193
“Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.”
>>Reference: Vol. I, pp. 409-410
“The £3 tax is merely a penalty for wearing the brown skin and it would appear that, whereas Kaffirs are taxed because they do not work at all or sufficiently, we are to be taxed evidently because we work too much, the only thing in common between the two being the absence of the white skin.”
>>Reference: Vol. III, p. 74
“First, why should we bear such hardships, submit ourselves, for instance, to…live among the Kaffirs…? Better die than suffer this.”
>>Reference: Vol. IX, p. 292
“Of course, under my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians, I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen.”
>>Reference: Vol. III, p. 429
“We humbly submit that the decision to open the school for all Coloured children is unjust to the Indian community, and is a departure from the assurance given by the then Minister of Education, as also Sir Albert Hime and Mr. Robert Russell, that the school will be reserved for Indian children only.”
>>Reference: Vol. IV, p. 402
“Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.”
>>Reference: Vol. VIII, p. 199
“Are we supposed to be thieves or free-booters that even a Kaffir policeman can accost and detain us wherever we happen to be going?”
>>Reference: Vol. VI, p. 363
“The British rulers take us to be so lowly and ignorant that they assume that, like the Kaffirs who can be pleased with toys and pins, we can also be fobbed off with trinkets.”
>>Reference: Vol. VIII, p. 167
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