DEMOCRACY - WHAT DEMOCRACY

What democracy - democracy my eye!Bharat Gajjar to Undisclosed-Re.

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From: "poonam abbi"
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Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 6:36 AM
Subject: {UnitedHinduFront} Re: Collapse of a culture



If democracy is a govt of the people, by the people &
for the people, then in the world, especially in
India, either there is no democracy, or Hindus are
not "people" by the definition of those who run these
"democracies"
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> Collapse of a culture
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> -M.V. Kamath
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> The media which tried to cover the event were
> pounced upon, beaten up and had their cameras
> smashed. All by the CPM cadres or their police
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> Has the RSS ever been guilty of such behavious
> anywhere in India, including Gujarat? Now Karat is
> frightening the UPA that if it goes ahead with the
> talks with the IAEA, then it would withdraw its
> support to the coalition.
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> What have we come to? To what depths of political
> degradation have we fallen that the politicking
> especially prior to the first phase of elections to
> the Gujarat State Assembly should be turned into
> name-calling and mud-slinging? One is ashamed of our
> leaders.
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> One expected some high class speechifying from the
> Congress leaders in fighting the elections. As it
> turned out, both Sonia Gandhi and the party general
> secretary Rahul Gandhi could only engage themselves
> in slovenly shouting unworthy of any leader.
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> The idea, apparently, was to run down the Gujarat
> Chief Minister in whatever way possible. And
> understandably he hit back in ample measure unworthy
> of an elder.
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> Sonia Gandhi was badly advised. So was Rahul. They
> had nothing positive to say and whatever they said
> reflected poor taste. Is Gujarat a "den of sins" as
> was made out by Congress leaders? Do they have their
> own hands clean?
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> Surprising support to the Gujarat Chief Minister has
> come from an unsuspected source: columnist
> Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar.
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> According to him, the Chief Minister is "factually
> on firm ground in saying that political parties who
> have resorted to extra judicial killings in other
> states are hypocrites in trying to portray Gujarat
> as a den of sin".
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> And how right he is. In Punjab, during the rise of
> the Pakistan-ISI sponsored Sikh militancy, upholding
> civil rights or the rule of law did not end it. Sikh
> terrorism was quashed by state terror, by
> extra-judicial torture, kidnapping and murder.
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> Ask K.P.S.Gill. Earlier, when Naxalite militants
> threatened West Bengal in the late 1960s and early
> 1970s, it was collusion between Congress and CPM
> that led to the crushing to the insurgents again,
> through extra-judicial means. As Aiyar noted,
> "Naxalism was not quashed by the rule of law, but by
> State terror". Forget the past. Think of the
> present.
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> Who halted the Nandigram revolt sponsored by the
> Bhumi Uchched Pratiridh Committee (BUPC): the West
> Bengal police? The CRPF? Neither.
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> It was the CPM cadre, fully armed, which 'invaded'
> Nandigram in 'Operation Recapture' and took it over.
> Fully armed CPM cadres? Yes, fully-armed CPM cadres
> indeed. Not only did the CPM cadres take over
> Nandigram, they have been, according to The
> Statesman (November 16) laying down fines on BUPC
> supporters. The cadres would tell them that if they
> did not pay the fine they would have to leave their
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> Has the Congress raised its voice against this form
> of terrorism and utter lawlessness? The State police
> simply failed to stop the cadres. And West Bengal's
> Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharya boasted about
> their work, saying the Opposition in Nandigram has
> been "paid back in the same coin".
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> He even went to the extent of saying that the CPM
> cadres were "legally and morally justified in
> entering Nandigram, armed".
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> Where, pray, is the rule of law? The media has not
> identified the so-called 'Opposition', which largely
> consisted of Muslims.
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> Fancy something like that happening in Gujarat with
> a Gujarat Nandigram being ruthlessly put down, say,
> by 'fully armed' RSS cadres? The media then would
> have been up in arms.
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> The RSS would have been damned as an anti-Muslim
> outfit. And the Chief Minister would have been
> condemned as a fascist, communal monster and killer
> of Muslims.
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> The CPM has been able literally to get away with
> murder of Muslims. But what has the media to say
> about it? Nothing. The Times of India (December 7,
> 2007) demanded of the Gujarat Chief Minister that he
> should "understand the rule of law". Did it give the
> same advise to Buddhadev Bhattacharya?
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