Wednesday, June 18, 2008
The Grim politics of total despair
Bomb blasts in Vashi and Thane theatres last month. The twin explosions were apparently directed against a Marathi play for poking fun at Hindu deities. Obviously there are more factors.
Saamna also appear to suggest a suicide squad. I am minded of the effective assassination of Rajiv Gandhi during the Tamil wars. There was undoubtedly considerable corruption in the establishment at the time, also murder and torture. Plenty of scope there for a suicide bomber.
IMO: To some extent the Maharashtra suggestion may be unwise, and too much in the nature of extreme carbon copying. Now for anyone who has looked at conflict situations, all this is not unusual. For example, the idea that, particularly in violent and corrupt places like USA, where someone has been forced into a corner by crooked police, and knows that if captured, spending the rest of his life in the chain gang is a likely option, he may well inadvertently kill himself during defence. Another case is in politics. We presently have an Irish 'No' vote to the Lisbon treaty. But in both cases, there can be a compromise. It is just that, in the case of over officious US police and law enforcement or in the case of the bogus and self-serving Eurocrats of Brussels, we are not finding it. In Maharashtra, there are still better chances than joining a suicide squad. Eventually the Irish and members of other small EU states may have to literally join suicide squads to protect themselves from unwelcome Brussels Eurocrats, who hover round everywhere in Europe like flies on a corpse. These Eurocrooks do not want to believe that 'No' means 'No' and hopefully they will pay for that.The need for suicide squads was almost there with Stalin, are the Eurocrats a new and worse Stalinist regime? It has to be nipped in the bud. In Europe that may still be possible. Belsen and San Quentin may show the way in Europe and the USA but personally I am still hoping for better ways in Maharashtra, and like to hope that Bal Thackeray is being a little too gloomy, or is being, as he very often is, unfairly represented in the press. There is so much more to say about such matters that one is almost reluctant to blog in the first place. Really, Maharashtrian suicide squads are probably needless and unwise yet. There is also the possible fear that the Shivaji statue proposed by Congress, and other such factors, may eventually drain enough vitality from Shiv Sena to make Shiv Sena seem superfluous. I would have thought that many points that have been made by Uddhaiv Thackeray could have been taken on board by many people though. Also, going round killing people is maybe not a good way to get continued support from existing supporters.
Bomb blasts in Vashi and Thane theatres last month. The twin explosions were apparently directed against a Marathi play for poking fun at Hindu deities. Obviously there are more factors.
Saamna also appear to suggest a suicide squad. I am minded of the effective assassination of Rajiv Gandhi during the Tamil wars. There was undoubtedly considerable corruption in the establishment at the time, also murder and torture. Plenty of scope there for a suicide bomber.
IMO: To some extent the Maharashtra suggestion may be unwise, and too much in the nature of extreme carbon copying. Now for anyone who has looked at conflict situations, all this is not unusual. For example, the idea that, particularly in violent and corrupt places like USA, where someone has been forced into a corner by crooked police, and knows that if captured, spending the rest of his life in the chain gang is a likely option, he may well inadvertently kill himself during defence. Another case is in politics. We presently have an Irish 'No' vote to the Lisbon treaty. But in both cases, there can be a compromise. It is just that, in the case of over officious US police and law enforcement or in the case of the bogus and self-serving Eurocrats of Brussels, we are not finding it. In Maharashtra, there are still better chances than joining a suicide squad. Eventually the Irish and members of other small EU states may have to literally join suicide squads to protect themselves from unwelcome Brussels Eurocrats, who hover round everywhere in Europe like flies on a corpse. These Eurocrooks do not want to believe that 'No' means 'No' and hopefully they will pay for that.The need for suicide squads was almost there with Stalin, are the Eurocrats a new and worse Stalinist regime? It has to be nipped in the bud. In Europe that may still be possible. Belsen and San Quentin may show the way in Europe and the USA but personally I am still hoping for better ways in Maharashtra, and like to hope that Bal Thackeray is being a little too gloomy, or is being, as he very often is, unfairly represented in the press. There is so much more to say about such matters that one is almost reluctant to blog in the first place. Really, Maharashtrian suicide squads are probably needless and unwise yet. There is also the possible fear that the Shivaji statue proposed by Congress, and other such factors, may eventually drain enough vitality from Shiv Sena to make Shiv Sena seem superfluous. I would have thought that many points that have been made by Uddhaiv Thackeray could have been taken on board by many people though. Also, going round killing people is maybe not a good way to get continued support from existing supporters.
# posted by uv : 8:41 PM
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