Uniforms Of Brutality

As per a news report in the Times of India of today, 3 drunken cops beat up a young man for no rhyme or reason – and the poor fellow needed 375 stitches after the beating!

And the cops were drunk in Ahmedabad, where there is prohibition of alcohol – which they enforce.

When I visited Ahmedabad some years ago, I was informed by a local doctor that the highest incidence of liver cirrhosis was among police inspectors!

As Bob Marley sang, “They are all dressed in uniforms of brutality.”

In India, people do not feel safe when a cop car approaches. They actually feel fear and trepidation.

This country is not ruled by law, it is ruled by coercion.

The law does not safeguard the individual. Rather, the law has become an instrument of coercion.

We don’t need these laws, and we don’t need this police either.