11.30.08

How impotent can we be?

Posted in Current Affairs at 6:14 am by The Intellectual Terrorist

Nothing’s changed. The below article was written in July 2006.
We’re in Dec 2008 now and nothing’s really changed.
We’ve had nearly 200 people killed and around 400 injured. Add loss of property as well.

What we need to do:
1. After the Mumbai blasts in 93, Tiger Memom quickly moved to the Middle East. The Saudis and the other emirates were more than willing to offer him protection.
Dawood Ibrahim has been in Pakistan for sometime now. His daughter is married to Miandad’s son. There’s no way that he would have missed his own daughter’s marriage .. either in Dubai or Pakistan.
India need to go in and take out people like Dawood, if the countries there are in are not going to surrender them. India needs to take action now and also intensify the political pressure on Pakistan. Press the US to cut all aid .. since most of the aid is getting into training terrorists.
India should also get the facts out on this particular situation and place the evidence of Pakistan’s involvement before the global community.
It’s a known fact that the Pakistani govt has little control over the army and the terrorist network.
The ISI and the army are the agencies in Pakistan that need to be dealt with. Also the India agencies need to ensure that we have no trouble coming in from our other neighbors.
Bottomline: Get into Pakistan and Bangladesh and finish of the terror camps.

2. Intensify border patrol. Ensure that illegal immigrants cannot enter in – either through Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal China, Bhutan or Burma.

3. Ensure that Indian police and military personnel are paid better and better equipped.
As citizens we interact more with the police than the military. The police are paid poorly, live in poverty, are over-worked and have obsolete equipment. The men in brown need to be paid better, trained better, and get the latest equipment to deal with such situations.
All police officers who are physically unfit (90% of the force) should be forced to get into shape.

4. The Mumbai terror situation should be better handled. The media was all over the place right next to the Taj. At Nariman House, the people had filled the streets, when the operation was underway.
Commandos, army officers and the police were giving the media regular updates.
Why have a media circus? Keep the media as far away from the situation as possible. Cordon off the people.

5. Outsiders. Yes the terrorists were outsiders. Where were the MNS and Raj Thackeray when these outsiders needed to be removed? We need some serious politicians not some buffoons.

As citizens, there is little we can do. The intelligence and the other agencies need to do the work that they are being paid to do. As citizens we expect these people to do their job and ensure that our life and property is not at risk !! Selfish maybe .. but if these folks cannot do their job why have them on payroll?

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Today there were serial blasts in over 6 trains(and one station, a total of 7 blasts) in Mumbai city. The time the bombs detonated was 6:00 pm, which is the time the trains are full as office goers return home. The timing was bang on target, maximum bodies in a minimum time frame. I’ve traveled Mumbai trains in peak hours and people barely get space to stand. A bomb exploding in such a confined place would definitely do it’s job.

It’s time India acknowledged the threat that we face from cross border terrorism and actually did something about it. The LET(Lashkar e Toiba) and JM(Jaish Muhammad) are the main suspects. We’ve been playing quiet diplomatic games for too long. We’ve discussed the issue at the UN for too long, we’ve sent across too many buses to Pakistan, too many artistes, too much effort that served no purpose. Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan’s ex Prime Minister in a recent interview to NDTV news has herself accepted a hardliner stand on Kashmir and accepted responsibility for militancy there. She’s further blamed the current regime for introducing foreign militants, the attack on Parliament, the Mumbai blasts , pretty much all terror activities in the last few years. If Pakistan’s highest ranking official is willing to take credit for militancy and also blaming the current regime for it, we need look no further. (Not that we didn’t know this, but when an ex-PM is willing to accept responsibility why look further ?)

India has historically held an extremely soft stand to the killing of Indian nationals be it in Mumbai, Delhi or anywhere on Indian soil or abroad. How many more people need to die before India has the courage to say what Benazir Bhutto has admitted: that Pakistan is responsible for all acts of terrorism in India, since they are the only ones to gain the maximum mileage out of it. There’s no other outfit out there that stands to gain by selling terror in India.

India has historically opted for blaming the ‘padausi desh’. We’ve never even had the conviction to say ‘Pakistan’. Let’s stand up for the blood of every innocent person that was spilled today. Let our political machinery, the media , PR firms and every citizen who has a voice condemn Pakistan’s spread of terror. India should go on record and denounce Pakistan as a terrorist state that harbors and funds elements of terror. The United States has just announced a package to Pakistan for arms and weapons. They should reconsider such initiatives or risk being associated with a terrorist state themselves. Let’s make every life taken count. Let’s shake every hand of friendship that comes from across the border. Let’s cut off every hand that rises to take an Indian life.

(On another issue: The Shiv Sena went on a rampage on the desecration of Meenatai’s statue.
What exactly is Meenatai Thackeray’s contribution to state politics, apart from being related to Balashaeb Thackeray ?
Tomorrow every leader will erect a memorial for his spouse and go on the rampage if someone defiles it. The state has lost over Rs 2 crore in damages, and unaccounted figures since there was a bandh called. If the Shive Sena considers the statue important they should ensure that there is 24X7 security around it and it is protected, rather than hold the state ransom for their foolish emotions.

Doesn’t 174 people being killed count for nothing? Why don’t they do something here instead of wasting time on trivia? Why not do something for the farmers in Vidharbha committing suicide. The Rs 2 crores lost here could have saved 400 lives and the families that they support. )

The Intellectual Terrorist

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