Thursday, April 09, 2009
Vaiko warns of bloodbath in Tamil Nadu
CHENNAI: Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam general secretary Vaiko on Wednesday warned that Tamil Nadu would witness a bloodbath even if the slightest harm befell Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam leader V. Prabakaran.
IMO: I do not think there will be a bloodbath - yet. Neither do most of the civil authorities, but we could all be wrong. I do not think Sonia Gandhi is in any real danger either. The reason is that she does not seem to be anything like as corrupt as, say, fascists like Tony Blair and Fred Goodwin. Sonia Gandhi has assets believed worth around £2.0 mn but has no car or house in her name in India. Assets include an ancestral home in Italy worth around £28,000. Plus local investments probably worth less than £50,000. All her life she has worked and made sacrifices for India, whether or not she is appreciated for doing so. Most of the money is doubtless inherited from non Indian relatives. In her position, any oligarch would be a billionaire. Compare Fred Goodwin's pension of £16mn obtained simply for ruining England's economy. Or Tony Blair's rise from basically nothing to ownership of property worth at least £5.0 mn and receipts of more than £50,000 per (worthless) lecture. This simply by brown-nosing failed president Bush for a few years and other graft tricks. I have to say that Obama's record is not looking too clean either, remembering the Auchi situation etc. There is reasoned and genuine hatred of these people, as there has been of the dead Gandhis, like it or not. But Sonia and Priyanka do not seem to have earned that hatred. Indeed we can still reasonably hope for a Congress victory at the next election. In the UK many people would have Fred Goodwin and Tony Blair hung, and not in effigy, but the Brits, a failed decadent nation, do not have the guts to do it, probably just as well for a peaceful life. The moral we can all draw is perhaps that continued gagging of the Press and publically lying to it is likely to rebound on those responsible, in this case the Sinhalese Government in Sri Lanka.
IMO: I do not think there will be a bloodbath - yet. Neither do most of the civil authorities, but we could all be wrong. I do not think Sonia Gandhi is in any real danger either. The reason is that she does not seem to be anything like as corrupt as, say, fascists like Tony Blair and Fred Goodwin. Sonia Gandhi has assets believed worth around £2.0 mn but has no car or house in her name in India. Assets include an ancestral home in Italy worth around £28,000. Plus local investments probably worth less than £50,000. All her life she has worked and made sacrifices for India, whether or not she is appreciated for doing so. Most of the money is doubtless inherited from non Indian relatives. In her position, any oligarch would be a billionaire. Compare Fred Goodwin's pension of £16mn obtained simply for ruining England's economy. Or Tony Blair's rise from basically nothing to ownership of property worth at least £5.0 mn and receipts of more than £50,000 per (worthless) lecture. This simply by brown-nosing failed president Bush for a few years and other graft tricks. I have to say that Obama's record is not looking too clean either, remembering the Auchi situation etc. There is reasoned and genuine hatred of these people, as there has been of the dead Gandhis, like it or not. But Sonia and Priyanka do not seem to have earned that hatred. Indeed we can still reasonably hope for a Congress victory at the next election. In the UK many people would have Fred Goodwin and Tony Blair hung, and not in effigy, but the Brits, a failed decadent nation, do not have the guts to do it, probably just as well for a peaceful life. The moral we can all draw is perhaps that continued gagging of the Press and publically lying to it is likely to rebound on those responsible, in this case the Sinhalese Government in Sri Lanka.
# posted by uv : 7:07 AM
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