| Godhra and After - Call for Sanity
By Prof. P.K.Sasidharan 06/03/2002 At 18:13 The communal conflagration into which the country is being pushed by
fundamentalist outfits like the VHP is terrifying but needs both
resistance from citizens and firm handling from the Government. Godhra and After - Call for Sanity
by Prof. P.K.Sasidharan
Sivakasi, TN. (India)
The communal conflagration into which the country is being pushed by
fundamentalist outfits like the VHP is terrifying but needs both
resistance from citizens and firm handling from the Government. That
is, if the Governments at the Centre and in the States believe that
governance means also an intolerance to prowling predators like the
VHP on a killing spree. The Home Minister and colleagues lose no
opportunity whatever to wax eloquent on terrorism and the need to
contain it, but have been tardy in acting against the terrorism that
has been acted out in Gujarat. The turn of the events drives the
common man to wonder if the Centre has not been turning a Nelson's
eye.
No civilized individual or community will ever approve of the
holocaust at Godhra Railway Station. At the same time, the glib
and callous attempts by the ilk of Acharya Giriraj Kishore to play
down the selective killing of more than 200 people and the selective
destruction of property worth crores as a minor reaction to the
Gothra incident are nothing but savage mockery. Perceptive people
will not fail to see the glee in which the statement is embedded and
this is hideous. In fact, it is not very difficult to see that the
VHP and associates have succeeded in creating a situation which
they have wished for and from which they hope to make gains.We need
to condemn the killing of the passengers of the Sabarmathi Express.
It was heinous. But at the same time, we have also to find out what
preceded it, though no provocation could ever be a justification for
such mindless, cold blooded killing. It is simple commonsense that
nothing happens just like that, that is, without a cause. And we
learn that
in the preceding weeks there were, in Gothra, events of teasing the
minority community and irritating them beyond a point .If this is
true, then it is easy to read that a clever ploy was planned to
create tension and generate an atmosphere in which the VHP could
consolidate more support for its Ram Mandir agenda .And they say
their agenda will be implemented in defiance of all law and courts
and voices of culture and moderation. That is, VHP will be a law
unto itself. The question is, are the right thinking people of this
county going to allow it? And is the Centre going to allow the
Gujarat government to wink at the situation for a time and then
alone force it to act? It is said that the guardians of law, the
police in Gujarat, initially were mere spectators which means they
had turned cowards and deserters. This cannot be allowed. Let us
citizens speak out.Let us tell the governments to act, and help
sanity prevail, with some tough action.
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I agree that most Americans are similar to the Nazis. They love the benefits their empire brings them, and they don't care about what happens to the rest of the world, as long as they keep getting the benefits of corporate plunder. However, the American public is extremely uninformed (partly because of their own apathy, partly because of the media monopoly). We rarely hear about what happens in the rest of the world, and even less about how it was caused by US policy or corporations. I don't think that revolution will happen within US boarders. It is up to the Global South to stop this empire. But when you do, I will be helping bring it down from the inside. THere are some of us here, the rare and ignored dissidents, raging against our own government. We support you! We resist US Imperialism! GLobal Intifada!
When the revolution comes... we will see that it is true: another world IS possible.
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i live in the US and a lot of what you say is VERY true but, dont judge ALL american in that light. there are many many of my brothers and sisters out doing what they can to stop what our country is doing arround the world
there is a very large group of americans who dont even trust what our own goverment tells them anymore, this country has many problems that the world dont even know about due to the "spin" our media puts on it
as HUMANS we must come together and try to make a better world FOR ALL not just the rich and powerful and not just for one country, WE ALL live on earth
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This is again a case of a minority within a majority seeking outlets for its thirst for blood. Since blood really does not have any caste, creed or community, this lumpen minority goes to town with its masquerade of fulfilling supposed/imagined high-minded aims of the majority, and even more presumptuously, scripturally sanctioned.
I am yet to read any scripture of any religion which sanctions in the name of God, Allah or the Trimurtis, bloodletting on this scale. This is mobocracy on an unimaginably vast scale, but what is pitiable and contemptible, is that it is allowed to continue and perhaps perpetuate itself with government sanction -- a supposedly elected government headed by a supposedly democratically elected head, who spouts physics better than the humanitarian principles which his own religion professes.
I have read that somewhere in the Upanishads there is a statement that to "spit on the ground is to spit on the face of your Mother Earth". Elsewhere, there is a line in a poem, wherein a poet "asks Mother Earth to pardon him for stepping on her, overfirmly".
Perchance, Poojyasri Modi forgets that the law of action and reaction will apply to him also in due course. Quite a number of us will be around to see that sequence of cause and effect.
But flash over the history of this ancient and richly-heritaged land, we do see state-sanctioned terrorism on some scale, micro- mini- or macro.
Thanks to Poojyasri Modi we have invited serious international attention; possibly we have also removed any fears of possible successors to Poojyasri Adolf Hitler, who should be close to the hearts of the supposed majority for was it not he who first heralded and tried to uphold the truth (?) of Aryan supremacy.
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