Random Rants & Raves

I’m sitting here with mixed feelings. One is a sense of happiness and achievement of having bought a home. The second however is of extreme anger, sadness and helplessness. India’s just seen one of the most brazen terror attacks in history. In terms of absolute numbers, there have been times when the number of lives lost in single terror attacks have been greater. However, this was the most audacious such attack – openly walking in to famous stops across one of India’s biggest cities and causing havoc.

I’m not going to start analyzing what could have been done and how stupid the politicians are and how brave the men in uniform are. Facts of life. These are some of the things I plan to do. Maybe you’ll find some stuff in these that you might like to do as well.

• I do NOT want to light lamps, candles, prayer sticks for the terror victims, commandos, their families or whoever – unless they are in a critical orifice of a terrorist. Holding rallies, arm bands etc. is good enough to show anger at the government. But let’s be clear – showing the guys massacring innocents paper banners with “peace” on it is only probably get that paper stuffed in you along with some lead.
• I do NOT want to pay taxes + surcharges + cess + god-knows-what-else to the government when they can’t try (forget guarantee) to provide safety to my family and friends. I don’t mind paying even a little more taxes if the security forces are given adequate trainings and equipment. It was pathetic to see the Mumbai police standing on the Gateway of India before the NSG turned up with scope-less .303 rifles. Were they meant to be snipers? I doubt they could even hit a crow that landed next to them with that obsolete piece of junk. But no, the government wants to take my hard earned money and give it their vote banks in the name of caste, religion, region and gender!
• I WANT to be involved in more proactive citizen strategies to avoid such situations again. Being part of a neighborhood watch, weapons training in localities, etc.
• I WANT to instill a feeling pride, love and responsibility of the country in my son and I wish everyone else has that too. Which means that I want that there be compulsory military service for all youth.
• I WILL slap anyone talking about the great Indian resilience. Indian resilience is nothing but talking “intellectually” over glasses of whiskey while watching the news or in parties. 10 days later most people are going to be back watching the stupid, mindless, and endless soaps on the same TV.
• I WILL back a strong government. We need to show the world that anyone who looks at India with malicious thoughts that we will take them to task. I want them to hang Afzal TODAY! and if the government gives an excuse of law and order – well, it’s their frigging JOB to make sure we’re safe.
• I do NOT want to apply “Gandhigiri” and peace and love to the terrorists while showing them the other cheek. Gandhi never had to face this sort of fanaticism – remember, he was the one against the establishment, albeit in a peaceful manner.
• I will NEVER, ever vote for Insensitive louts masquerading as “leaders” (like RR & Shivraj Patil, Deshmukh, Naqvi, Achunanthan and others) and make sure that their own as well as their family’s political careers are completely over.
• I do NOT have any respect for so-called “intellectuals” like the Roys, Setvlads (any relation to Vlad the Impaler?) who spout nonsense when brave soldiers and policemen get killed and accuse them instead of having killed “innocent” terrorists. My appeal to the establishment is that if next time an event like this occurs, please get Roy and Setvlad and send them in to the innocents holding the AK47s to replace the hostages. After all, the poor, innocent youth-with-grenades are not going to harm them, are they?
• And finally, I will NOT bow my head before any religious deity EVER. I don’t care what kind of moronic reason people will give justifying “God”’s inaction. If anything, if this creature called God actually exists, it is even more despicable than the politicians of our country for seeing so many innocents being killed – and I don’t mean only in the Mumbai attacks but over the countless centuries of bloodshed that humans have done in it’s name. If there is such a creature, it sure does have a frigging thick hide to bear the disgusting acts done in its name.

There are a bunch of other things I’d like to do and say, but they’re not something that I’d want to write down. All in all, 26/11 is only ONE such event – India has faced far too many such incidents to start moving on yet again! You need to show your ANGER – not your RESILIENCE.