It's Not Democracy, Dudes - This is LAPUTA!

Now that Team Anna has lost its sheen, and their India Against Corruption Movement has come apart at the seams, what do our mainstream editors have to placate the enraged public with but tired phrases extolling the virtues of "liberal democracy" in a SOCIALIST country with a SOCIALIST Constitution. The following is from a lead editorial in the Indian Express of today:

The rupturing of Team Anna’s superficial solidarities is also a reminder of the significance of much that they run down about representative democracy and the thoughtful, liberal institutions that undergird it. For all their contempt for Parliament, it is the one arena where an entire range of beliefs is accommodated and the friction of ideas is productive, where the desires of one ideological constituency are tempered by the encounter with another. The rise and ebb of India Against Corruption has only showed up, in greater relief, the rock-solid foundations of our democratic institutions.

How glibly they use the word "liberal" - which has its root in the word "liberty" - just as socialists in the USSA do, too. Which is why people like us call ourselves "libertarian." The word "liberal" has been corrupted. And as for the word "democracy"...

In the meanwhile, the Central State Police Minister called for new legislation to control all these "socialist political parties" - which would be better called "robber gangs." Of course, he wrote this when out of office!

And the Opposition leader, LK Advani of the BJP, has raised the cry that the Centre is "undermining the federal structure of the Constitution." Actually, this is a "quasi-unitary State."

Below the level of the quasi-federal State government, nothing exists!

No municipality works.

There are no Mayors.

Every city and every town is a shambles.

And we vote for a Parliament in Dilli Door Ast (Delhi is far away).

Or for an MLA in a quasi-federal State parliament.

We do NOT vote for Mayors.

And none of the parliaments we have actually work.

There is never any meaningful debate in any parliament.

And our prime minister chacha manmohan s gandhi has never been elected!


Bureaucrats of the IAS run cities and towns - DDA, CMDA, BDA etc. These are all CORRUPT.

Call this anything, you fucked-up editors of the Express, but do NOT call this "liberal democracy." Do NOT say that all ideologies are accommodated within this system - when liberals are debarred by the Representation of People Act. Do NOT fool your readers, who are voters, and who do NOT need your propaganda.

What is this, then?

We,, this is LAPUTA - the one travel of Gulliver that children are never allowed to read. Here, the rulers live on an island that floats above the population. Rebellions are literally "crushed" with the island landing atop the rebels! 


Like sonia gandhi landing at some village in her helicopter.


Of course, in the end, the evil rulers of Laputa are overthrown.

Read all about Laputa in this wiki.

Buy the book here.

Read the chapter on Laputa - and pass it down to your children.


PS: Read this ToI edit "Cause for Cheer" on the Human Development Index. These guys have never heard of the Economic Freedom Index. We are "mostly unfree" - and this State is called LIBERAL?