Freedom
is not free, every generation needs to earn its freedom
It
is never the activity of rascals that
destroys the society, but always the in-activity of the good people that does it. What a paradox, if they were really good would they be inactive? or are they also rascals just labeled as good?
India is not the first country with problems, but it’s the first that is not coming up with
solutions.
Mahatma Gandhi once said, “Co-operation
with the government is the duty of every citizen so long as the
Govt. protects their honour; non-Co-operation, is an equal duty when the government, instead of protecting, robs its citizens of their honour. ”
Our level of patriotism is reflected by the degree of
injustice we are willing to accept. A patriot
hates injustice. The highest form of injustice
is when “Injustice” is considered “Justice.”
Judiciary is the custodian of democracy.
People may be helpless to prevent injustice, but they can never be prevented to protest against injustice. Injustice is
the seed which destroys every nation. Does
protest mean taking the law in
your own hands? . Civil disobedience for a just cause and being willing to accept consequences
to awaken the conscience of the people
amounts to showing the highest respect
for the law and not taking the law in their own hands.
Patriotism is not an emotional
outburst, but a complete dedication to a
bigger cause.
Crime on women or any crime for that matters is a:
(a) Social problem (b)
Cultural Problem & (c)
Political problem
How
(a) It
is a social problem because it reflects
the individual and societal
values.
( (b) Cultural problem: Where
is it originating from and how endemic it is? Any behavior
wide spread becomes a culture.
( (c) Political
problem: Political strength of
leadership either prevents or perpetuates
the problem.
We need to evaluate
:
Causes
Take
corrective steps
We
need also to evaluate:- Ways to
prevent and punish those who do not
respect the dignity of others.
Causes:
The incident of the 23 year old rape
and violence victim shows the utter degradation of values. I do not
know a person or society which is 24 carat pure, but there is a big difference between 22 carat and 8 carat purity. When I
talk of degradation, I confess that none
of us have a monopoly on values.
All of us have made mistakes in life, some of
omission or commission. There was a time when we made a mistake in the
past we had a remorse, we felt
bad about it. But today, people don’t feel
bad because they made mistake, they feel bad
why did they get caught. That
is degradation.
One major cause is a breed of people
nouveau riche people, who have made new money or
got new power by hook or crook. They
have made millions but have no values and somehow with their behavior they are telling the
world that they have “arrived”. They have syndrome called, “Don’t
you know who I am?” and somehow, they
try to show their masculinity through
their anti social behavior. Our
male chauvinists look at women as an object of sex to be used and
discarded. The average age of criminals has gone down from 17 to 12 years.
Harassment through eve teasing &
molestation has become an common practice
and fun for the cheap charlies.
What happened to this 23 year
old, was not just rape. If rape was the only intent then the gang
rape criminals (current incident) would
have stopped with rape, but they pushed a steel bar into her.
This is outright sadistic behavior which is taking pleasure out of other
person’s pain.
These are
reflections of our society and its leadership. Many politicians have worst criminal records than
most people in jail and this would disgrace any nation. These criminal
politicians influence the future of the entire nation. They have been provided
bodyguards when they themselves really belong
in the jails.
Nation is seeking strong laws and fast track courts. Granted we need both. But the biggest question is where are the fast track judges with integrity. According to the Ex Law Minister, Mr. Shanti
Bhushan, 8 out of 16 Chief Justices of
India are corrupt. According to
Justice Bharucha, 20% of the judiciary
at higher level is corrupt in India. According to the news papers, Hindustan Times, May 25, 2007, as many as 77% of Indians
believe the country’s judiciary is corrupt, and 36% paid bribes to the
judiciary last year. This is not just a
perception, these are facts as per Media
Reports, which have gone unchallenged.
This is reflected in the sufferings of the people. The legal system is
such that it shelters
the criminal and penalizes the honest. How could we ever have
criminalization of politics , if the judiciary had done their
job with integrity?
Sadly the interviews made by our politicians
have been totally non committal
reflecting their true slippery character. Acting sympathetic by saying we
understand the pain, we also have daughters and families and such
atrocity also could happen to them. They are
the same people who send their
kids with bodyguards and sten guns. Being a women politician didn’t
help either, it seems they are politician first
women second. Why would Mrs.
Pratibha Patil before leaving her post as a President of India reduce the death sentence awarded to those convicts who had raped and murdered a
six year and a 10 year old girl to life imprisonment?
I wonder why politicians
who are representatives of the
people need such heavy security of 20
bodyguards with sten guns. Why are people’s
representatives so scared of their own
people that they need a line of defense of bodyguards between them and their
people. The answer is very simple. Many
of them have committed such heinous
crimes that they are scared for their
own lives.
I heard one of the police officers giving an interview that our police force is over worked. I totally agree with him that they are very
overworked. Doing what? Collecting Haftas, even 24 hours
are too short for them.
This is common knowledge that
they pay
money to politicians and bureaucrats
to get the police jobs and
lucrative postings. Aren’t our law makers the biggest law breakers? In fact our
women are even scared to go into a
police station, out of fear of being
raped by the police.
Filing an FIR against the Former
Army Chief, Ramdev and others amounts to total high handedness such as was done by the Britisher during our
freedom struggle. This is not a
protest, but it is freedom
struggle. Haven’t we become bigger slaves than before? It is so true that freedom is never free
every generation have to earn its own
freedom.
All that the politicians promised was a swift action. Swift
action did come in the form of shutting
the metros, lathi charge , water canons and
tear gas shelling on innocent
unarmed people asking for
justice. It is not unusual
for dubious politicians to plant their own anti social elements to derail the protest.
For the last 65 odd years the
politicians and Government of India have been oppressing their own citizens,
isn’t this the worst kind of terrorism? Today
the Government of India has become the biggest terrorist to its citizens.
Remedy:
We need both long term and short term
remedies, preventive and corrective. Right now to address the current protest Govt.
needs to do following immediately:
1.
Get their legal team to create a bill which addresses issues of rape and violence on women. These
laws exists all over the world and there is enough precedence. It can be done within
24 hours.
2.
Within 72
hours a fast track court ought to be created where hearings should be done
on day to day basis for 3 kind of cases:
(a)
Rape cases
(b)
Political corruption
(c)
Bureaucratic corruption
3.
Approx. 25%
post of judges across India are lying
vacant why is that?
Not being able to
fill those positions amounts to administrative failure, doesn’t it ?
Fill the vacancies within 30 days
after evaluating and assessing the integrity
of the judges. Similar daily hearings such as that were done in the US on Arthur Anderson case
should be done in India and judgments announced.
4.
In order to
have honest people
as parliamentarians, we need to bring the following reforms:
(a) Police
reforms
(b) Judicial
reforms
(c) Electoral reforms
5.
Educating the
masses regarding human values through
media and school curriculum.
The frustration has gone to such a
point where a Supreme Court Judge said that the malice and corruption has gone
to such an extent that even God cannot save India. If he feels so
helpless, just imagine the plight of the common citizen? Yet our politicians are only playing
politics to gain power at the cost of destroying our nation. Isn’t
this the height of treachery?
Citizen
Responsibility:
People who do not get involved by
standing up for a just cause, they have no right to criticize the system.
They invite much deserved injustice by not getting involved. If we are not
part of the solution then we are the problem.
Our politicians have reached a
point of no return. They cannot be
awakened. One can only awaken those who
are asleep, but those whose conscience are
dead need only to be replaced.
Authored
by:
Mr. Shiv Khera
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