Of all the Sunday columns – and I used to write one myself (but that’s another story) – I found Tarun Vijay’s “Fire In The North-East” most compelling, because it is a major attack on the crucial ministry at the Centre that is responsible for “law and order”: The Ministry for Home Affairs.
All is not well with this crucial ministry.
Do read the full article here: the RSS-type pseudo-patriotism aside, it makes a good read. After all, it is anti-Congress, and anti-Left too.
It is like sitting back and watching your enemies bash each other.
Tarun Vijay provides a list of organizations “banned” by this ministry:
1) United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA)
2) National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) in Assam
3) People's Liberation Army (PLA)
4) United National Liberation Front (UNLF)
5) People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (Prepak)
6) Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP)
7) Kanglei Yaol Kanba Lup (KYKL)
8) Manipur People's Liberation Front (MPLF)
9) Revolutionary People's Front (RPF) in Manipur
10) All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF)
11) National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) in Tripura
12) Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC)
13) Achik National Volunteer Council (ANVC) in Meghalaya
14) Babbar Khalsa International
15) Khalistan Commando Force
16) International Sikh Youth Federation
17) Lashkar-e-Toiba/ Pasban-e-Ahle Hadis
18) Jaish-e-Mohammad/ Tahrik-E-Furqan
19) Harkat-ul-Mujahideen/ Harkar-Ul-Ansar/ Karkat-Ul-Jehad-E-Islami
20) Hizb-ul-Mujahideen/ Hizb-ul-Mujahideen Pir Panjal Regiment
21) Al-Umar-Mujahideen
22) Jammu And Kashmir Islamic Front
23) Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
24) Students’ Islamic Movement of India
25) Deendar Anjuman
26) Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-People's War; all its formations and front organisations
27) Maoist Communist Centre (MCC), all its formations and front organisations
28) Al Badr 29) Jamiat-ul-Mujahidden
30) Al-Qaida 31) Dukhtaran-e-Millat (DEM)
32) Tamil Nadu Liberation Army (TNLA)
33) Tamil National Retrieval Troops (TNRT)
34) Akhil Bharat Nepali Ekta Samaj (ABNES)
He then says:
”The ban on these outfits in fact is nothing but a mockery of law as most of these organisations are active under different names. In the northeast, banned organisations like ULFA issue press statements and call the Army an "occupational army"; in Nagaland, a terrorist and separatist organization like the NSCN (IM) has its headquarters in Hebron where it 'celebrates' its "republic day" inviting journalists from Delhi and Kolkata; in Jammu and Kashmir, the government has announced pensions for the family of terrorists killed in encounters with security forces!”
Heck! We Liberals are banned too!
Maybe we should form a “rainbow coalition” with all these banned groups.
At least then we will gave guns on our side!
But jokes aside: It is only in liberal politics that the solution lies.
We need a new moral consensus that sees social harmony to lie in voluntary exchange. This civilizing activity that lies at the foundation of our “natural order”, and its natural “rules of the game”, should then become the Basic Law as a consensus.
Only liberal politics – the spreading of this message – can achieve the return of social stability.
After all, the roots of social stability must lie within society itself – and they do.
There are no armed policemen “maintaining order” in any of the world’s great shopping districts – including our own Chandni Chowk, Brigade Road, and Connaught Place.
If order and stability could be brought about “from above” then the Ministry of Home Affairs would have succeeded long ago.
Thus, the conclusion is stark:
Not just for fruit and vegetables, meat and fish, clothes and shoes, phones and electricity – even for “social order” we have to rely on MARKETS.
Highly recommended reading: “The Production of Security” by Gustave de Molinari (a close associate of Frederic Bastiat) who was the founder of what is called “market anarchism”.
It is a short article.
So do read it – here.
Since it is Sunday and some may want to read further, here is Thomas Paine himself.
Read.
Then think!
Action must come later – but it must come.
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