Nice words, but only that. If any Indian politican has decided to show courage, he is instantly shot down by the pseudo liberal Media
Advani talked of hot pursuit to meet derision of the chattering classes. Thackrey's demand of breaking all contacts with Pakistan was dismissed as a half mad ranting of an even madder person.
The likes of this columnist will be the first to cry 'alienation', 'sidelined', 'oppression' and many more such superlatives, once the police nabs even one culprit. The media outrage over the arrest of Geelani of the Parliament Attack fame or the encounter death of Isharat Jahan of Mumbra is simply too vivid to forget
We simply have too many columnists and opinion makers who make their living out of lighting candles at the Wagah Border, denouncing their Indian citizenship, crying 'State sponsored progoms' and defending Maoists, terrorists, in fact anyone indulging in Anti National Activities.
But at least all this shows that we indeed are a pluralistic society, welcoming and accepting our worst enemies. Perhaps the Human Rights Industry will some day wake up to the fact that ordinary people, who are not 'terrorists' have rights too
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by anand on Jul 13, 2006 05:13 PM Permalink
hi Ankush
Well said excellent the human right people i dont know if there relatives die in such blasts will they still ask the criminals to be treated as per human right policy. and the english media they are more interested in page 3 gossips if shivsena says no cric with pak the media will put this as a headline and label them as fanatics. shame on the media and jai shivsena!!!!!! even though i am not a shivsainik
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by Situ on Jul 12, 2006 09:07 PM Permalink
Rajesh, you sorely miss the point. Knowing your geography doesnt allow you to abuse someone whos making valid points throughout the article.
There are a few things we need to do: 1. We need to beef up our security - may be the easiest of all, given that our army is well equiped to handle it.
2. We need to weed out anti-nationals sitting in our country. This is the tough nut to crack. We have enemies in our midst. And its not easy to spot them out (unlike in US, which got into racial profiling).
3. To re-phrase what Bush said: \"We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them, and those dont do anything to track them down.\" We need to get our ministers, MPs and MLAs and the services to be more accountable to us, the people. Its not like they\'re doing us a favor. Its their god-damn duty to maintain security. If an Indian cant travel in peace, what is the state we\'ve plunged ourselves into?
4. The citizens need to be just as accountable (I\'m remembering the Tamil movie Anniyan as I say this). We should track down these in-house monsters with as much vengeance as our hard-working soldiers to do on the border.
