On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Aditya Kapil wrote: > I don't think he means Muslim. I understood the LTTE (Vs saying Tamil) > reference to mean terrorists.
He correctly said 'tamil female passenger' ... Of course that means muslim female passenger in the Indian context. If you have a muslim girl-friend prepare for her to be groped by some heavy in a uniform, unless she can prove she isnt a muslim or affiliated to a terrorist. > These are hard times that require hard > measures. Frequent check points may not be a bad thing... for a while at > least. > LK and SS seem to have short to long-term views. These are not perfect but > there is some historical basis. But your views are only criticisms of theirs > and have utopian undertones. Do you have ideas on what might work in these > times... I don't understand why expecting clean drinking water is utopian when trusting blanket police force is being considered practical. You are talking about 'India' and 'National Security' while such concepts are shaky at best outside of the shopping malls and the cricket team. Calling it hard times is an exaggeration - you are in a huge country with a lot of other problems, a few people got blown up. Luckily i live in a city with a terrible crime rate - 2 days ago the neighborhood grocery store was raided and a lone gunman held shoppers hostage for a few hours. The police wasted him, but also killed a shopper - they didn't know who was who. We also have police checkpoints since time immemorial - they are manned by heavily armed policemen - who spend most of their time shaking down motorists for a bribe - while they ought to be checking for guns / explosive contraband / hijackers. In the meanwhile its quite easy to rent a hand gun from the cops, as the state regulates who can own a hand-gun. You want a super police force that functions like the FBI, yet you don't mind that the water supply is tainted.
