Aspects Of Our Cruel Socialist Tyranny

A brave Nepali lad has been sentenced to 10 years of Rigorous Imprisonment for carrying a little less than 2 kilos of charas in Goa - and there is a hash cafe in Amsterdam called "Goa."

(Read my old spoof on ganja-charas in Goa.)

This sentence of a lower court was upheld by the high court of Bombay and Goa – the same high court that has refused to hear the 15-year old PIL of the Indian Liberal Group challenging the socialist monopoly made of Indian democracy by the Representation of the People Act, as amended by Indira Gandhi.

Injustice heaped upon injustice.

My chillum friends and I would be happy to buy the 2 kilos and smoke it all in one sitting right in front of the court.

High Outside A High Court!

Poetic.

As if on cue, the LRC blog has a vital post today on cannabis legalization. It concludes:

…here is who we are up against in the fight to legalize marijuana: the military industrial complex, big oil, big pharma, big alcohol, big tobacco, the prison system, the logging industry, the textile industry.

Legalize it.

More important:

Set that poor Nepali boy free.

Away with your Tyranny!

And Boom Shankar!

Speaking of our tyranny, Mint has an important editorial today on the decline of our political parties. They say that, for our political parties:

The new brand seems to be the family name, a marketing strategy that till now had worked in the case of the Nehru-Gandhi family alone, but has now become successful down to every local election.

In other words, it is all about personalities and (temporary) loyalties – and not ideas and issues. The editors conclude:

…what started as a liberal parliamentary system after Independence is now threatening to degenerate into a sort of neo-feudalism, especially at the sub-national level.

In the meantime, the Bombay High Court sits for 15 years on a PIL vital to injecting issues and philosophy into Indian politics – while sentencing a poor Nepali for 10 years RI. Note the R in RI: these guys are CRUEL.

By sitting on ILG’s PIL the cruel high court has also sentenced every Indian classical liberal and libertarian to the political wilderness – for 15 years and running. SV Raju of ILG has aged before my eyes; some of his associates have died. They might as well all have been in jail - which is the direct of way of dealing with political opposition usually employed by tyrants. Our tyrant, Indira is India, chose Legislation.

The cruel high court keeps sitting on the file challenging this Legislation.

I have often suggested a mass demonstration outside this cruel and unjust high court to demand an immediate hearing of the ILG PIL. And someone please bring two kilos of good Nepali charas along.

Scene 2: Germany

Our situation in socialist India, ruled by the arch-socialist second-termist but unelected Chacha Manmohan S Gandhi and his NREGA and Right to Education, Right to Food etc. – all meaningless rights – can be contrasted with Germany, where Angela Merkel’s CDU has come into power with the support of the classical liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP). The Express today has an editorial on this happening. Her earlier coalition partner, the “social democratic” (read “socialist” and “welfarist”) SPD has lost support, and is now seated in opposition. Merkel is now in a position to make far-reaching reforms towards free markets and lower taxation; the latter is good for Germany because the share of government consumption goes down while private investment is stimulated. Germany is not going the way of the USSA. We are.

Now, the FDP, Merkel’s free market ally, like all German parties, has a propaganda arm – the Friedrich Naumann Foundation Für Die Freiheit, funded by the German taxpayer according to the share of the vote. So, now, their funding will increase. This foundation is active in India, and is a good friend of all us liberals and libertarians – of all ages. They help publish our books, they train us in liberal principles (we have an alumni association), host conferences and events, and in many other ways assist the great cause of spreading ideas of liberty throughout our land.

See how “legit” the Friedrich Naumann Foundation is.

And see how “illegit” we are.

Tyranny!