Fuck The Indian Police, And Fuck Chidambaram, Too - For Gross Dereliction Of Duty

It's official! A report by the highways ministry has said that 1,60,000 people are killed on our roads every year, and more than 5,00,000 are injured, most of them seriously. A Times of India news report adds that a Member of the Planning Commission, BK Chaturvedi, estimated that road accidents cost India 1 lakh crore rupees annually - that is, 1,000,000,000,000 rupees.


Now, I wouldn't trust these government statistics - precisely because they show the State in a very poor light. The same news report says:

Road safety experts feel that the number of accidents and road deaths reported are less than the actual figures due to lack of scientific data collection.

What is incredible is that no statistics are reported from the police! For example, we do not know how many of the people seriously injured subsequently succumbed to their injuries, or how many were permanently maimed, making them unable to earn a living. We also do not know how many were pedestrians, how many cyclists, and how many were riding scooters and motorcycles. Such data ought to come from the police - but police crime data has NEVER been trusted in India. In the case of road deaths and injuries, it is amazing that they have NO DATA to offer.


On the other hand, just the other day, the Indian Express website had a photograph of Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi distributing some 600 wheelchairs to the disabled. The question is never asked as to how these people were disabled. Could it be road accidents? After all, we have beaten polio.



Thus, my own guesstimate would be that some 3,50,000 people or more are killed or permanently disabled every year because of road accidents, which means some 1000 people EVERY DAY. 


In sharp contrast, Kasab and his gang killed 200 people in Mumbai over two days. 

This is SHOCKING! And the Home Minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, harps on and on about how "terrorists and Maoists are India's gravest security threat" - as though road accidents are not happening, that too on such a massive scale. I have a previous post on this.

I am therefore of the opinion that this is a case of GROSS DERELICTION OF DUTY on the part of our The State - in particular, the Home Minister, and the entire police establishment. I do not care whether the corruption charges against Chidambaram are true or false - but in this case, he seems to be UTTERLY INCOMPETENT. He has been Police Minister at the Central State since the 1980s - and NEVER have I heard him say a word about road deaths and injuries. However, in one of his Budget speeches while he was Finance Minister I did hear him announce an import duty reduction for orthopaedic equipment. So he must be aware of the fact that Indians are importing such equipment in huge quantities. In every city and town, specialised orthopaedic hospitals are mushrooming.


Now, look at the photograph accompanying this post: this is the cover of the "Abbey Road" album of The Beatles, dated 1969, and it shows the Fab Four using a zebra crossing. In India, more than 40 years later, and after some 20 years of an "automobile revolution," there are NO such zebra crossings in any Indian city or town.


This is a BIG CRIME OF OMISSION on the part of our The State - particularly the police and their minister.


In modern cities and towns, zebra crossings come nowadays with a button operated traffic light for the pedestrian. He only has to press the button and the lights go red, all traffic stops, and he safely crosses over.


In the West, you rarely see traffic policemen on duty - the entire system is operated on high technology. Thus, I do NOT think the Indian police "lack manpower" as they always claim. Their manpower is more than sufficient - and most of it is "armed police." What they need to do is get rid of all this surplus manpower. And the State must invest in Capital Equipment to make roads safe.


Chidambaram, to me, seems to be a "house-trained" Police Minister, a puppet in the hands of his officials, all of whom are deeply involved in political skullduggery. The man is effeminate - and thoroughly incompetent. He - and the entire police top brass - need to be taken to task over the FACT that some 1000 people per day are killed or permanently disabled on our fucked-up roads.


And by "taken to task" I mean that they should get FUCKED - by the press, and by public opinion. Heads should roll. Careers should get ruined.


One more point: When we discuss police predation on street hawkers, senior police officers always say that these hawkers "harass pedestrians." Actually, these hawkers provide indispensable services to pedestrians, while the actualy life-threatening dangers lie on the roads - an area where the police (and their minister) display GROSS DERELICTION OF DUTY.


In my view, this police force we have is NOT an asset to society; it is a LIABILITY. They only serve their political masters; they do NOT "serve and protect" the people. Indeed, they prey on the people. They are precisely the kind of "robber kingdoms" St. Augustine wrote of, in the quote I provided yesterday:


Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms? The band itself is made up of men; it is ruled by the authority of a prince, it is knit together by the pact of the confederacy; the booty is divided by the law agreed on. If, by the admittance of abandoned men, this evil increases to such a degree that it holds places, fixes abodes, takes possession of cities, and subdues peoples, it assumes the more plainly the name of a kingdom, because the reality is now manifestly conferred on it, not by the removal of covetousness, but by the addition of impunity.


I am therefore of the firm opinion that the entire "criminal justice system" must be abolished - and replaced with a system of Torts. Bruce Benson's The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State becomes essential reading for all educated and concerned Indians. You can order this book in India here.


Lastly, do NOT take this lightly, dear reader. You - and your children - could be affected. Rajesh Pilot, Roads Minister, died in a road accident. Ajit Jogi was permanently disabled. One of Bal Thackeray's sons was killed on the road. They don't care. We must. We must ROCK their boat. They must be hauled up - and made to ACT. We MUST be SAFE. They own the roads - and they must fix them.


So, as the title of this post put it:

FUCK THE INDIAN POLICE

AND FUCK CHIDAMBARAM TOO

FOR GROSS DERELICTION OF DUTY

We Don't Get Fooled Again!

A Deutsche Bank report just reached me, warning of recession in the USSA. But their analysis is based on "consumer spending" - and this might suggest to many that another "stimulus" is required from the Fed.

This displays ignorance of Say's Law of Markets.

Last night, I watched a BBC programme called "The World Debate" on the current economic crisis, hosted by Nick Gowing. Of the four debaters, three were government people - Christine Lagarde, who heads the IMF; a guy from Obama's economic team; and a dude from the EU in Brussels.


Lagarde spoke of the need for the G-20 to get together and do what they did last time - and I could have cried out loud. That time the G-20 nations inflated their currencies along with the US Fed, which is what "central bank co-ordination" is all about, and which is why the crisis is so widespread today. Nick Gowing, on his part, asked for "more decisive political leadership."

This, too, displays ignorance of Say's Law of Markets.

Today, the Keynesians teach this law as follows:

Supply creates its own demand.

This incorrect formulation of this vital law makes their students believe that "monetary stimuli" create demand.


So, let us think things through: 


The supply of plasma TVs does not create the demand for plasma TVs. Yet, if cars sell, if jeans sell, if shoes sell, and if beer sells - then, and only then, will some people from these latter industries be tempted to buy a plasma TV. Thus, what Say's Law actually means is:

The sale of X gives rise to the demand for all non-X.

If X sells, it creates the demand for all non-competing goods.

So, if you want increased demand for your plasma TVs, don't go to The State asking for a monetary stimulus. Instead, make sure all those who do not compete with you are selling their stuff.


There is another reason for this: If you ask The State to inject a monetary stimulus, all that will happen is another boom-bust cycle - and inflation. The entire economy will be hurt, including yourself, and including all those who do not compete with you.


On the other hand, if you want those industries that do not compete with you to do well, you will NOT favour loose monetary policies based on the false idea of boosting consumption. Rather, you will realise the importance of SAVING and INVESTMENT. You will realise that these businessmen who do not compete with you will need to save and invest - in order to produce. You will favour "capital accumulation" and despise "capital consumption" - which is Keynesian-welfarism-inflationism. You will champion "sound money."  


That is, you will realise that production of goods and services boosts demand - not the production of money. Indeed, not even the production of gold boosts demand. All that happens then is that the price of gold falls - look at the history of Spain and Portugal when they brought gold and silver back to Europe from South America. Spain and Portugal never got rich. And there was inflation throughout Europe. Britain got rich not by digging for gold and silver - but by trading in nutmeg and pepper, and tea, and opium, and tobacco, and sugar, etc.

Increased production of "funny money" is a VERY BAD IDEA.

Thus, Nick Gowing is WRONG when he asks for "more decisive political leadership." The solution does NOT lie in politics. On the contrary. The solution lies in "private money" - and "free banking under law." 


That is: the size, scope, powers and resources of The State and the politicians must be drastically cut down. Money must be given back to the people - to save and invest, to produce. That is how demand can be permanently boosted and boom-bust cycles avoided forever.


Indeed, the current crisis is BECAUSE OF POLITICS. Central banks and their member banks are collapsing. Politics lies at the root of this crisis.


So, let us NOT GET FOOLED. 


Paper notes are just a "money substitute." This is what the "promise to pay the bearer" indicates. Something "hard" is (and always was) real money - GOLD.


So, as the song goes:

I tip my hat to the New Constitution,

Take a bow for the New Revolution,

Smile and grin at the change all around me,

Pick up my guitar and play,

Just like yesterday,

Then I get on my knees and pray:

WE DON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN!

While that covers widespread miseducation in the USSA, Britain and Germany, let us now turn to our own country.


Did you know that both Amartya Sen and chacha manmohan s gandhi were students of Professor Joan Robinson in Cambridge - who was Keynes' right-hand man, and who made it her "mission to destroy Say's Law"? It was Joan Robinson who cleverly coined the "supply creates its own demand" nonsense.


And, as I wrote the other day:

Without Sound Money - what is the State 

but a band of robbers?

That should take care of Kapil Sibal's "(mis)education."


Let us now turn to Palaniappan Chidambaram, the Central State Police Minister, whose name has cropped up in the 2G scam. There is a report written by the Political Editor of The Sunday Guardian that says that in the Nira Radia tapes, A Raja told Radia that "PC got a lot of money."


The Central State's Police Minister is corrupt?


And he has been police minister since the 1980s - and there have been no police reforms. Policing has just got worse. Now, road deaths total over 2,00,000 per annum - and the police don't even possess the "knowledge" to fix things.


We must ABOLISH THIS STATE. And replace it with honest civic corporations - one in each city and town.


A Second Republic!


A Republic WITHOUT any police - like the England of old, before Peel set up the Bobby. Like India of the Company, before the Crown passed the Indian Police Act in 1861.


TORTS - which are "crimes against the individual" and for which financial compensation must be paid by the tortfeasor to the victim: this will be better than any "criminal justice system." Anyway, ours doesn't work. And the minister is corrupt. Indeed, the Entire System is Corrupt.


So let us vow to throw the whole thing out, beginning with the Central Bank, and ending with the State Police.


Liberty! Property! Justice! The Pursuit of Happiness, Subjectively Defined!

WE DON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN!

(This turned out to be a 5-part series on Say's Law. The next post can be read here.)

Continue With Rural Development? The Same Old Crap! Or Urbanisation Powered By Unilateral Free Trade?

What is the greatest threat to our lives: Terrorists or Maoists?


I would say: ROAD TRAFFIC!


200,000 people die on our unsafe roads every year, and many times more are seriously injured.


But at a a national workshop on rural development programmes in areas most affected by the Maoist movement, our Central State Police Minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, said that Maoists are a bigger threat than terrorists - while forgetting all about road traffic deaths, of course.


The news report says:

In the first eight months of this year, the number of civilians killed by Maoists is 10 times more than those killed in terror attacks, he [Chidambaram] said at a national workshop on rural development programmes in areas most affected by the rebel movement.

The one-day "workshop," held in Nude Elly, was attended by all the top brass connected with "rural development": first, the Rural Development Minister, Jairam Ramesh, a political flyweight, Rajya Sabha MP from Andhra Pradesh; there was Montek, who heads the Planning Commission, the "economist"; there was minister for road transport and highways C.P. Joshi and tribal affairs and panchayati raj minister V. Kishore Chandra Deo.


The Annual Budget for rural development is 87,800 crore rupees. (One crore is 10 million.)


The news report says:

The rural development ministry is the nodal agency for development schemes, including the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), the Indira Awas Yojana, the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) and the National Rural Livelihood Mission. It has been allocated 87,800 crore rupees in the year to 31 March to implement these programmes. This includes the allocation to the department of drinking water and sanitation.

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But, obviously, all this SHIT is not working - because it cannot. Economic Law cannot be violated. Economic Law says the "division of labour" - which is the "specialisation" by which wealth is created - is maximised in cities and towns, because there are bigger markets there, because population density is high. A tea-shop in Pondicherry earns much more than a tea-shop in the jungles of Jharkhand - and it is not surprising that there are migrants from Jharkhand to be found in Pondicherry (I met two young boys) as also in Nude Elly. In Nude Elly, in fact, girls from Jharkhand are to be found working as housemaids. They have their own church in Green Park, where they meet their fellow Jharkhandis on Sundays, worship, socialise, and exchange news.


Nothing much can be achieved by spending 87,800 crore rupees on Rural Development. It is just "pork barrel politics." Corruption. It is interesting that chacha manmohan s gandhi bravely told the audience at this workshop that "there must be 'zero tolerance for corruption' in the implementation of schemes intended for these regions." Then how come he "tolerates" so much corruption in his own Cabinet?


There is ANOTHER WAY - and that is URBAN DEVELOPMENT, that too, along the twin coastlines, powered by unilateral free trade.


So, imagine a libertarian politician at the helm making a speech to the Jharkhandis:

Ladies and gentlemen,

There is NO HOPE for you in these jungles. If you want to progress, you must shift to where the MARKET beckons - and that is the COAST. So, go, all you tough young men and women, go to a coastal town or city of your choice and engage in free international trade. Come home with your profits - and return again.

For those who cannot go or do not want to go, government handouts are NOT the solution. Government CANNOT create jobs. But government can DESTROY jobs - by overtaxation, by restrictive licensing, and by the OUTRIGHT BANNING of trades.

Your trades in MAHUA and HANDIA are banned because of the previous government. We are setting them FREE - alongwith ganja. Sell these lovely drinks and smokes to tourists. Let there be mahua plantations instead of tendu leaf collection. Smoke cigarettes. Smoke ganja.

And remember: If you want tourists to come, there must be PEACE. No tourist will come to where he can get SHOT! That is why there are no tourists in KABUL these days.

So say OM SHANTI. And let there be peace.

Oppose the Maoists - tooth-and-nail. They are zeroes even in CHINA!

It is either Capitalism - which requires peace.

Or Communism - which requires WAR.

Choose ladies and gentlemen.

(Wild cheering.)

Get my drift, dudes?


MORONS ON TOP!

It's Cassius Clay Vs Palaniappan Chidambaram: Take #2

Last night, as I was sleeping out there in the open on Beach Road, Pondicherry, my Samsonite pouch, containing my cash, my debit card, my cheque book, my mobile phone, and my passport was STOLEN - along with my SLIPPERS.


These are 2-year old 100 rupee plastic slippers. They had straps - but the straps broke, so I cut them off. Who the FUCK would steal such fucked-up slippers? They are not even comfortable. And I have some blisters on my feet to prove it. 


I do NOT believe any of the good people of Pondicherry could have committed such a crime. And, in Mangalore, as I reported to the Karnataka Lokayukta, the Karnataka Police actually STOLE my wallet while arresting me - a beautiful wallet I had purchased in Srinagar, Kashmir.


So, maybe, it is the Pondicherry Police who stole my stuff last night.


I have been sleeping out there in the open on Beach Road for many nights now. And every night I have woken up to see the Police skulking around. There are many other people who sleep out there in the open, like my good friend Abdullah, the one-legged beggar. But no one hassles me. Yet, when I see the policemen skulking around, I get a bad feeling. I arise. I stand up. And then, they depart. After that, I go back to sleep.


I like sleeping out there in the open. I love The Great Outdoors. I love camping. I love trekking in the mountains. I love the Outdoors - where there are No Police.


Now, under the Constitution of India, the police are a "State Subject." Further, under the Indian Penal Code, all powers are vested in the Station House Officer in-charge of a Police Station. The entire edifice above this SHO exists only to harass him - and exploit him for "political purposes." And, of course, to CORRUPT him.


At the very top of the heap is Palaniappan Chidambaram, Union Home Minister. He is a "politician" from Tamil Nadu - but he is a "zero" in Madras. Just as the Union Health Minister who banned "smoking in public places" throughout the length and breadth of this vast sub-continent is a Complete Zero in Tamil Nadu, Mr. Ramadoss of the PMK.


The Union Cabinet in Nude Elly always comprises some of these compleat zeroes from Madras - and Chidambaram is one of them. Read more about him from good ol' Wikipedia. He is a student of Statistics. He holds an MBA from Harvard. And he is a "successful socialist lawyer" - like Kapil Sibal and Arun Jaitley.


This fella, P Chidambaram, always manages himself a berth in the Union Cabinet by kissing ass. And then, he speaks very softly and sweetly - unlike REAL POLICEMEN, who kick ass, and talk rough. Chidambaram always wears a lungi. Imagine that! A Harvard dude in a lungi!


Harvard is a terrible university. And Harvard Law School is particularly horrible. Do see the old movie about this law school, a movie called "Paper Chase," which shows how much their students have to mug and cram, just for this "paper degree." It's the perfect example of LEGAL POSITIVISM, this Harvard Law School.


Also, you must read PJ O'Rourke's essay on the time he attended the Annual Big Event of Harvard University. The way that O'Rourke, a "jolly good fellow" if there ever was one, describes this event, it is evident that Harvard University is nothing but an EXTENSION OF THE US STATE.


I am NOT from Harvard. I studied at the London School of Economics & Political Science, and the LSE Students' Union is DANGEROUS. They are called "The London Mob." The LSE Students' Union runs their own PUB on campus, a very nice pub called "The Three Tuns."


Now, for a VERY LONG TIME, the Indian Police have been after me, and I suspect they get their orders from Chidambaram, who is a ZERO in Madras. My Karnataka stories are well known. But here too, right here in Pondicherry, I have been endlessly harassed by the police. The Pondicherry Police effectively evicted me from L'Ocean Hotel, and then they kidnapped me and lodged me in the JIPMER Hospital for a few horrible days and nights, to undergo psychiatric examination. While I was there, policemen guarded my room. After I was released, the Hotel L'Ocean informed me that the Pondicherry Police had instructed them that I was NOT to be allowed to live there. And it is therefore that I shifted to the Hotel Continental, further down the line. There too, policemen came to my room. And anyway, you know that later on policemen assaulted me on Beach Road and smashed my glasses and also caused bleeding injuries on the top of my head. You know that they took me to a Police Station for questioning. And you know that they then released me WITHOUT CHARGES.


This is nothing but HARASSMENT.


And the man behind all this, if you can call him a MAN at all, is P Chidambaram, Union Home Minister, who is a ZERO in Madras, and a ZERO in Nude Elly, too. Whereas I am a zero in Madras, I happen to be a HERO in Nude Elly. I studied in St. Columba's High School in Nude Elly. And I hold two degrees from Delhi University, where I was widely known as a "charsi." And in Delhi, they say:

Charsi Kabhi Na Marsi

Now, while Chidambaram hides under sonia's skirt, there is someone sinister hiding under his lungi - and that happens to be MY MOTHER. She is always skulking around wherever I go, escorted by policemen. Staying free in State Guest Houses. Interfering in my life. She is an Agent of The State. I hereby DISOWN her. As far as I am concerned, I am my father's son. When I was a little boy, my father's Bhojpuri chaprasis used to sing a song about me that went:

Baap ka beta,

Sipahi ka ghora,

Kuch nahin tho,

Thora thora...

Because of this horrible woman hiding under Chidambaram's lungi, my MOVIE, of which I am the HERO, is constantly being altered. In Mangalore, I thought I was 007 James Bond, "Licensed to Kill" by Baroness Thatcher - and suddenly I found James Bond's MOTHER landing up in my James Bond movie!

What the FUCK?

Sometimes, I think I am Macbeth, "is this a dagger that I see before me, it's handle towards my hand, come let me clutch thee" - and then this woman comes and changes my movie into Hamlet.


And, just by the way, William Shakespeare is GUILTY of having libeled Lady Macbeth, for Macbeth was a HERO, and the records show that he killed Duncan in "fair combat."


Now, I am barefoot. And I have nothing on me. I am taking a rickshaw to HDFC Bank - to withdraw all the cash in my account.


I trust the Pondicherry Police will return all my belongings to me soon - and tell this Chidambaram fucker, who is a ZERO in Madras, and a ZERO in Nude Elly too, to FUCK OFF from my life.


I am pasting a photo of this asshole below, to contrast it with that of Cassius Clay above. And many thanks to Google Images, "without whose sweet love, what would I be."

And now, for a latest update. I have spent the afternoon drinking beer with my friend the saintly sadhu, and with Abdullah, the one-legged beggar. I spent my money on the beer. This just happens to be The Holy Month of Ramadan - and, so, all three of us decided to skip lunch. But, because both our religions permit it, the three of us decided to smoke some chillums of ganja.


And a rickshakaran came by. And I have seen the MGR movie Rickshakaran, long ago.


And so, I gave this rickshakaran 100 rupees to get some ganja and a chillum.


But he never showed up after that.


I went to sleep on a chatai I just bought - and both the sadhu as well as Abdullah slept alongside me.


What the FUCK?


Is this The Holy Month of Ramadan or what?


And the saintly sadhu was covering himself with a cloth upon which Namoh Shivaye was inscribed in TAMIL.

Boom Shankar - Dusman ko Thang Kar.

Bum Lehri - Gaarh De Tamboo Gehri.

Bum Lehri - Tere Jata Se Ganga Behri.