Today is a “dry day”: Republic Day. Our The State is celebrating the birthday of our Constitution – but wee the people cannot celebrate. Big Brother insists we must be sober today.
In the meantime, Big Brother is selling heroin. Read this report on how a senior police officer of the IPS cadre has been caught peddling 12 kgs of heroin, worth more than 12 crore rupees. The news report says that this guy used to revel in giving lectures in colleges on the dangers of drug use. While he himself profited from it. This heroin was part of a large haul he had made while posted with the Narcotics Control Bureau.
We need a New Constitution.
A Constitution of Liberty.
It must be Liberty – or the only other way we seem to be going is Talibanization: the rule of a self-appointed moral police. From Mangalore comes the news that goons of the Sri Ram Sena, a Ku Klux Klan-type splinter group of the BJP, attacked women in a pub and ordered them out. Usual remarks about “obscenity” and “indecency” were made about women in western attire, who were dancing with men.
Thankfully, the police arrested most of the goons. The incident was widely condemned in Karnataka – which is BJP-ruled. The central government’s minister also chipped in, terming it an attempt at “Talibanization.”
So that’s the choice: it is either the Goa Model of Liberty or our desi Taliban.
It is either Liberty or a Corrupt Police State.
It is either Liberty or Death.
Onwards to a Second Republic!
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