jan 9th, 2011 CE
it cannot be used as an instrument for loot forever. you cannot fool all the people all the time, you know.
the very fact of the different approaches to anna hazare and baba ramdev shows this: the kleptocrats who know they have to worry about and who is just a sideshow.
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Some random thoughts:
We need gun laws like in the US. 4Ms already got access. Decent middle class folk will be the first to be cut down when the impending shit finally happens.
Ramdev is not an educated man, nor is he unfortunately, very logical, but he does have the right spirit. Where the hell was the think tank of the BJP to help Ramdev fine tune his agenda? To do what Ramdev did takes b@{{$.
Right to bear arms is a MUST, it has always been well recognized in Hindu tradition and in practice until the British disarmed us.
Muslims tried to but failed, it was these arms that the general population used to resist Muslim tyranny in medieval times and there are eyewitness accounts of this.
Medhatithi the 9th cent writer of Manubhashya is quiet clear that people in general have the right to bear arms.
In that regard the following is a good article:
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0907g.asp
Law abiding Hindus are already routinely cut down by Muslims and Christians because they are unarmed. Remember the numerous riots like the one's in Sholapur over Falwell's remarks where they killed 10 Hindus with no provocation, compare that to how Korean store owners defended themselves during the LA riots.
The country has already been taken over by Islamofascists and Maoists. Over 200 districts - a third of the country are Maoist infested, and even then, to get a gun license you have to basically prove that your life is under threat?
(Maoists have hacked down 10 policemen -
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/167714/10-chhattisgarh-cops-killed-maoist.html)
I need the confidence that whoever comes after me for the demographic I belong to knows that he could eat bullets and turn into a corpse too.
Good article, Julian.
@Nizhal Yoddha
The by-line of your article in rediff is "Rajeev Srinivasan on the cavalier nature of the Indian State's actions against its own citizens". The phrase that I have highlighted, along with portions of your article in main, pushed my thoughts to a tangentially related matter, viz SAFETY, particularly safety in science laboratories. As a retired scientist, I am acutely aware of and deeply concerned about the State's (universities, other academes, State-controlled science labs, etc. are also "State" according to the law of the land) verily cavalier and criminally negligent attitude in safety matters. In this connection, please note the following, which is of relevance to some of your views in the Rediff article:
“Indian Penal Code, Section 336. Act endangering life or personal safety of others
Whoever does any act so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life or the personal safety of others, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees, or with both.”
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