Dear Uncle Bernard, I picked this up whilst traversing
Mother India over the past two months. I thought this could interest your
readers no end. I was unable to identify the author, but that is not important
unless he makes capital of this. Until I come back from Sabah here is wishing
you good health….heard from your FB that you have not been well………..
A fantastic read. Hope you read and understand
the message before its too late. Or is it already too late?
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves
Act
1:
Let me tell you a story about an old man who
lived in a small village somewhere that does not matter. It all began when the
man’s sons came to him and told him that some people from the neighboring
village had stolen a chicken from their farm. The old man told his sons to go
after the thieves and recover the chicken.
The sons
said, “Father, it’s only one chicken. We have hundreds of chicken. One won’t
make a difference.” The old man said, “Do what you please.”
A few days later, the thieves stole a goat. Once
again the old man told his sons to not let them get away with it. The sons said
that they have dozens of goats and it’s not worth the trouble. The next week it
was a horse. Once again the sons rationalized it away saying that they still
had six horses that the farm needs.
Finally, the next week the sons came back to
report to the old man and said, “Father, our sister has been abducted. What
shall we do?” The old man said, “It’s too late. You should have recovered the
chicken. Now there’s nothing you can do.”
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Act
2:
I heard this story from an expat from New
Zealand who runs a very successful school in Singapore. David told me that in
the early years of Lee Kuan Yew’s government, a minister was suspected of having
taken a bribe. People said that since the minister was a close associate of
LKY, in all likelihood the man would get away with it.
But as it happened, LKY had a brief
chat with the minister one afternoon. The next day the minister went out with a
bang — he put a bullet in his head.
Singapore is one of the least corrupt nations in
the world. LKY’s policy is simple: zero tolerance for corruption. That’s so
because he himself is incorruptible and therefore does not tolerate corruption.
The wages of public corruption is death. People know it and act accordingly.
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Act
3:
India’s appointed prime
minister is Dr Manmohan Singh. Under his watch, the most egregiously
blatant instances of public corruption have taken place. His ministers and
other office holders have been involved in acts of public malfeasance that are
stunningly incredible — but for at least a significant segment of Indian
voters, it is quite alright. They appear to take it as if it’s nothing out of
the ordinary. The rulers are going about the rape of the land and the people
just lay back and supinely accept it.
We are talking figuratively about rape but Dr
Singh’s misgovernance has descended into literal rape. Not just rape, gang
rape. Not just gang rape, it has finally hit (one hopes) the rock bottom into
murderous gang rape.
The 23-year old woman who was gang raped in a
New Delhi bus died in a hospital in Singapore.
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Act
4:
They first stole a chicken.
The Congress government under Jawaharlal Nehru
was involved in corruption. The news papers reported it. Nehru responded saying
that the reporters were being silly since corruption is a global phenomenon and
there’s nothing to get all excited about.
Then they stole a goat.
Nehru’s daughter nationalized many sectors of
the economy, thus making public office attractive to the most criminally
corrupt. The people of India did not disapprove. They in fact voter her back to
power.
The stage was set for horse thieves.
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Act
5:
Some people started waking up to the reality.
They realized that somehow the system was not working. They heard the call from
a chosen few and gathered to register their protest. The
government followed the time-worn strategy of attack being the best form of
defense. They sent in their baton-wielding cops and the crowds — leaders too —
beat a hasty retreat.
The lesson the appointed prime minister Dr
Manmohan Singh’s government learned was that it does not take a whole lot to
put the people in their place — the place of course being that the people in
the government are the rulers and the people are serfs.
For around a century, a few hundred million
Indians were the serfs of a few thousand British. Now it is different. India is
under self-rule.
An Italian, Antonia Maino aka Sonia Gandhi, and
her bunch led by Digvijaya Singh are ruling about a thousand million Indians.
Well, perhaps it is not all that different.
Though Maino’s father was a fascist. That could make the British Raj 2.0 a
little more vicious than the British Raj of pre-1947.
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Act
6:
It tickles me no end when I hear talk about
India being a free country and a democracy with universal adult franchise.
Every adult has the vote and therefore is in some sense responsible for the
kind of government. In my opinion,India is a kakistocracy — government by the
most corrupt and the least principled. Indians freely elect these people. And
among the elected are criminals who have been charged (and many convicted) of
rape and murder.
The guys who gang raped the
unfortunate woman on the bus in New Delhi share at least some of the
characteristics of the law makers of India: their criminality. A significant
numbers of Indians vote for these kinds of criminals.
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Act
7:
I hear that the despicably dishonest appointed
prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s government moved to shut down protests in
New Delhi by closing down a few metro train stations. Perhaps the people will
back down and go home.
If they don’t back down, I suppose the
unfathomably dishonest cretin, the appointed prime minister Dr Singh will
probably escalate the situation till we see tanks on the streets of New Delhi.
The
sister has been abducted.
And if I were a betting man, I would
place the bet that the people are not going to do anything about it. Come next
elections they will vote for Antonia Maino aka Sonia Gandhi and her henchmen.
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Act
8:
Antonia Maino aka Sonia Gandhi and her gang of
vile henchmen are unprincipled criminals. But they are not stupid. Their moves
are calculated to push the boundaries and they know precisely what they can get
away with. They know precisely how much they can steal and yet be elected. They
know precisely how many backs they can break with their police lathi-charge and
still the people will not lynch them.
Indians have an amazing capacity for
tolerating injustice.
It was an American, born a slave but who
understood the dynamics of slavery, who put it best over a century ago.
Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895), the renowned American abolitionist wrote, “Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found
out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them . .
. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they
oppress.”
The rulers are not unintelligent. They would not
be where they are if they were not the most accomplished criminals. They make
the laws, don’t you know. They dictate the terms.
They control the press. The press provides the
cover for them and they in turn protect those in the press that do their bidding.
The Ghoses, the Sardesais, the Dutts — these are not unimportant players in
this sordid play. They are complicit in the figurative rape of India and are
handsomely rewarded for their prostitution.
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The
Final Act 9:
No doubt for a few days the twitterati will be
screaming bloody murder. A few thousand will go on candlelight vigils. In a few
weeks, another distraction will occupy the talking heads on TV. Cricket will
take over the collective psyche. And of course the sordid stories of Bollywood
shakers will move the public to other concerns.
Talking of journalists, I am reminded of what
the legendary American radio broadcaster Edward R Murrow (1908 – 1965) said:
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
Yes, India does have a government of wolves
because India is a nation of sheep. The tyrants like Dr Singh know well
precisely how much oppression the Indian public is willing to endure.
The rape of the land and the people — literally and figuratively —
will continue……and find a parallel here?
ABU
then unless you prefer
to
be ABUsed
