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- Anna Hazare and Co. – Coloured Revolution in the Making-Radha
Rajan-19 August 2011 [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/unitedhindufront/t/e29a7962e3acc80
- LOKPAL: National comic-tragedy?-Rijul Singh Uppal-19 August 2011 [1 Update]
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Topic: Anna Hazare and Co. – Coloured Revolution in the Making-Radha
Rajan-19 August 2011
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/unitedhindufront/t/e29a7962e3acc80
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From: "Sandhya Jain " <sandhya206@bol.net.in>
Date: Aug 19 06:27AM +0530
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/unitedhindufront/msg/ac484b3023124cbb
http://www.vijayvaani.com/FrmPublicDisplayArticle.aspx?id=1928
Anna Hazare and Co. – Coloured Revolution in the Making
Radha Rajan
19 August 2011
Kapil Sibal chose to overlook the fact that FDI in the print and
electronic media is 26% when he thumped the pulpit in bogus anger two
days ago at a seminar and demanded to know who was funding Anna
Hazare's drama and how he managed to get this kind of advertisement
and publicity for his every sneeze and sniffle.
The media is not a philanthropic entity, as Kapil Sibal knows; money
dictates editorial policies and nationalism is passé. The most
important role in legitimising Sonia Gandhi's neo-colonial ambition to
rule a country not her own has been played by the media and Kapil
Sibal cannot pretend that he and other worthies within the Congress
and opportunists like Mamata Banerjee and Lalu Prasad Yadav did not
bask in this media manufactured sunshine.
Sushma Swaraj allowed FDI in media and the NDA may yet rue the day.
Kapil Sibal also chose to ignore the fact that the same forces which
paratrooped Sonia Gandhi into the nation's polity and the same forces
which advertised Rahul Gandhi's every sneeze and sniffle was almost
certainly behind Anna Hazare and Co. And if, as the writer suspects,
Anna Hazare is the means to realize Sonia Gandhi's agenda for her
family and for the country, then the conduct of all the dramatis
personae, the lines they are mouthing and their actions fall in place.
The bizarre and uncharacteristically offensive statements made by
Kapil Sibal gives the impression that Sonia Gandhi's loyalists in the
government actually wanted to provoke people to take to the streets in
anger and force the Prime Minister to make a reckless move. And
arresting the Gandhi-like toothless wonder with his own Mahadev Desai,
Mirabehn and other service providers in tow, was just such a move.
The writer said it before and is saying it again – Anna Hazare's
campaign is neither nationalist or in national interest; the forces
orchestrating the mass hysteria are looking to the future to create
another Libya, Egypt and Indonesia-like chaos followed by take-over of
the country by hooligans on the street. The take-over will be
hopefully followed by prolonged chaos and then we will see the triumph
of democracy when some American stooge like El Baradei or Au Sang Su
Kyi will stand for elections and the kingdom of god will be
established in India.
Anna Hazare is just a test run for things to come. The Generic Church
is using Anna Hazare to assess what brings Indians to the streets and
the reactions of political parties and other important organizations
to mass hysteria and the media's own self-whipped frenzy.
Just so people who are jumping into the issue fingers to nose and feet
first come to their senses, they should pause, step back and contrast
the drama unfolding around Anna Hazare and Co. (don't lose sight of
the Co.) with how the same government dealt with Baba Ramdev's protest
in June at Ramlila Maidan against the same corruption; only Baba
Ramdev, unlike the more wily Anna, named names forgetting the
all-important Congress/BJP bi-partisan commandment: Thou shalt not
take the name of the Lady.
Isn't it strange that all cataclysmic events in the country impacting
this family happen in the absence of the Lady, who (like Bollywood's
police) always arrives in the interregnum between the climax and the
denouement and reaps the benefits!
The Plot
Get rid of the Prime Minister who is now standing like a soldier
between the Manchurian Candidate and the Throne.
As if to prove the point, Arnab Goswami, holding forth from his
newsroom told us, hiding coyly behind "unnamed credible sources within
the Congress", that the whole thing was a "mess because the Prime
Minister is refusing to avail of the reservoir of experience"
available in the party. The reservoir of experience referred to Ahmed
Patel and AK Anthony who, in her absence, are Sonia Gandhi's flies on
the wall and whom the Prime Minister is keeping at arms' length.
Dramatis Personae
- The Prime Minister
- Sonia Gandhi and her coterie
- Anna Hazare and Co., primarily Kiran Bedi and Arvind
Kejriwal, beneficiaries of the Rockefeller Foundation munificence who
aspire, like Sonia Gandhi and her son, to be power centres without
going through the democratic process within the party or within the
country
- The 24 hour English News channels which are being trained by
the Generic Church to become important instruments towards the
Coloured Revolution
Unmasking Anna Hazare
- Is Anna Hazare's campaign against corruption or is it to
coerce the government to accept his draft of the Lokpal Bill?
- If the campaign was against corruption why did he not join
forces with Baba Ramdev or invite him into the movement?
- If, as Anna Hazare hinted, Baba Ramdev's campaign was flawed
because it was political, why did Anna Hazare meet Advani on 1st July
and Sonia Gandhi on 2nd July?
- If Anna Hazare is the common man's man and his movement is
apolitical he should not have sought the support of leaders of
political parties and individual Members of Parliament
- Can any effective movement against corruption keep politics,
political parties and politicians out of it
- For a man who claims to be the face of RK Laxman's cartoon
with his ears to the ground, did he not know about the innumerable
charges of corruption that Dr. Subramanian Swamy has levied publicly
against Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and her family in Italy?
- If Anna Hazare can meet Advani and Sonia Gandhi, why did he
not seek a meeting with the Prime Minister, unless he thought he could
get the Prime Minister to do what he wanted through Sonia Gandhi and
not through the Indian Parliament?
- Was this not petty politics on the sly and smacking of self-interest?
- If the campaign was against corruption, why did he sidle up
to Sonia Gandhi against the Prime Minister?
- Why was Anna Hazare's letter to Dr. Manmohan Singh on the eve
of Independence Day disrespectful of his person and the high
constitutional office of the Prime Minister?
- Anna Hazare like an obedient minion of the media made the
media's heroes his heroes and the media's villains his villains; this
was a dead give-away that the forces who pull the media strings are
pulling Anna Hazare's strings too
- Anna Hazare is threatening to go on an indefinite fast until
the government accepts Arvind Kejrival, Prashant Bhushan and Kiran
Bedi's draft of the Lokpal Bill
- This brazen Gandhi-like coercion to use the nation's ordinary
people to fulfill a personal agenda (accept my Bill) actually means
Anna Hazare has not only no faith in the government, but is insisting
now with the villainous media playing the chorus that the Prime
Minister 'read the writing on the wall' and without delay pass his
Bill
- Those promoting Gandhigiri with so much hysteria must sit
down with Gandhi's Collected Works and find out for themselves the
number of times that Gandhi undertook fasts - we can count them on the
fingers of one hand – full fast, partial fast, fast for a
predetermined period, and indefinite fast, and learn how many of these
fasts were undertaken for the nation and how many for his fetishes
- Expressing mistrust of Parliament or denying Parliament the
right to discuss and then reject (or accept) the Draft is akin to
questioning the entire democratic process which made this parliament
and an insult to the last citizen of this country who participated in
the process, warts and all, and expressed his preference for those
representing him
- Most importantly, Parliament is accountable to the people;
Anna Hazare and Co. are accountable to none
- Anna Hazare is now insisting that the government and the
entire nation must accept only his draft of the Lokpal Bill; the
Gandhian despot is out in the open
Sonia Gandhi's Coterie
As the writer pointed out immediately after President Obama's state
visit to India, the fact that Sonia Gandhi was not given any
pre-eminence during the formal reception or subsequent state functions
in the President's honour pointed to the fact that all was not well
between the Prime Minister and the Congress President. Even the
President of India, widely seen as Sonia's appointee, was kept at bay.
On the issue of corruption too the divide between the Prime Minister
(polite for government) and Sonia Gandhi (polite for the Congress
party) became obvious once the dichotomy government vs party began to
be openly talked about. Obviously Sonia Gandhi no longer controlled
UPA II as totally as she had controlled UPA I or continues to control
the party; there are ministers in the cabinet whose personal loyalty
to Sonia Gandhi outweighs their loyalty to the cabinet, Prime Minister
or Parliament.
The Prime Minister is being checked and stalled by this group on every
move that he wants to make to deal with the crisis of corruption
within his own party and within the institutions manned by the
boss-lady's appointees. After all he did get the CVC removed and he
did get the CAG report out too; Suresh Kalmadi and Sheila Dikshit are
not the end points in the trail of corruption; and if we factor in the
imminent disclosure by Wikileaks' Julian Assange of the list of
Indians who have stashed money abroad, the time had come for the Prime
Minister to be removed.
The essential difference between the movements led by Baba Ramdev and
Anna Hazare was that while Baba Ramdev's focus at was on black money
stashed abroad, the focus of Anna Hazare and Co. was not corruption as
a pervasive phenomenon but on the Lokpal Bill which this team had
drafted.
The draft Lokpal Bill is not the same as the issue of corruption, and
Sonia Gandhi's coterie, better than any other group in the country
understood this; as did the Prime Minister. And that is why Sonia
Gandhi personally and her loyalists, Ahmed Patel, AK Anthony, Kapil
Sibal and P Chidambaram with Digvijay Singh scoring the music dealt
with Baba Ramdev in the manner seen at midnight on June 4 and
succeeded, and why the same entities stood aloof and allowed the Prime
Minister to deal with Anna Hazare and why the Prime Minister failed.
Sonia Gandhi's unelectable minions in the government and party made
sure the Prime Minister was isolated on the issue and also that he
would fail to check Anna Hazare so that they could now legitimately
ask for his removal and promote the Manchurian Candidate to the
throne.
So whose cause is Anna Hazare really serving?
Kapil Sibal went out of his way to make a villain of Anna Hazare by
repeatedly stating that Anna Hazare was usurping the function of
Parliament by drafting the Lokpal Bill. If it was bad in principle,
then this was not the first time. As pointed out earlier, Kapil Sibal
was uncharacteristically offensive with a Gandhian (!) besides taking
liberties with the truth. It was not just Anna Hazare and Co who had
drafted their version of the Lokpal Bill; Aruna Roy, another
beneficiary of Rockefeller munificence had her version of Lokpal Bill
ready too.
The scandalous Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence Bill was
also not drafted by Parliament; it was drafted by Sonia Gandhi's NAC
and her loyalists had indicated that the government intended to place
this Bill too in Parliament and pass in the monsoon session! It was
almost as if Kapil Sibal wanted to inflame passions using the more
than ready media to do it. At a time when senior ministers in the
Cabinet ought to have watched their words and reacted with caution,
Kapil Sibal and Ambika Soni were doing the exact opposite.
If the idea was to push the government deeper into the crisis and hold
the Prime Minister responsible, they succeeded. The Manchurian
Candidate after all, is ready and waiting. The Hindu has already said
so.
The Media wants a Coloured revolution
The role of the media in the unfolding drama has been no less
villainous than the role by Sonia Gandhi's henchmen.
- Are the people outside Tihar jail the aam admi or are they political?
- We are here for Anna, screamed one while another wore a
fetching cap with "I am Anna" slogan printed on it
- This is not like Baba Ramdev; this is not communal. We are
here for Anna.
- Let me pan my camera on this gentleman. He has come here all
the way from Hyderabad for Anna
- This man has 'bunked' office and he is here for Anna.
- People March, government crawls, screamed Times of India
All that the media wanted to hear, all that the media wanted to show.
Not a single unseemly sight, not a single discordant note. India is
with Anna screamed the media the whole day. A question though – how
did the media in all that milling crowd find that one man who had come
there for Anna all the way from Hyderabad or that one man who had
'bunked office for Anna or that one lady who screeched this is not
political, this is not communal, we are with you Anna.
When Sonia Gandhi ordered the midnight Stalinist assault against Baba
Ramdev and his bhaktas, we did not see the media reacting in
self-righteous anger. Electricity to Ramlila Maidan was cut off at
night, women and children were forced to wander on the streets at
night and Baba Ramdev was forcibly removed from Delhi and ordered to
stay out of Delhi for the rest of the month.
The media did not ask how this was any different from the British
government transporting Tilak and Savarkar away from their own country
into exile or how this was different from Kashmiri jihadis forcing
Kashmiri Hindus from out of their homeland.
The media is making the same pernicious distinction between 'ordinary
people' and people with political affiliations that Lalu Prasad Yadav
made when he almost justified the burning alive of men, women and
children in the Sabarmati Express at Godhra Station by describing them
as 'karsevaks'.
By the media's definition, ordinary people deserve the halo aam admi
only when they are not karsevaks, not RSS cadre, not Baba Ramdev's
bhaktas and not Hindus.
Warning
The very idea of Lokpal Bill is bad in law because it envisages an
extra-constitutional body which will usurp the functions of
parliament, police and judiciary.
http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1511&Itemid=71
The media has instigated a section of the people against their
lawfully elected government. The media has shamed the country by
depicting the government as being susceptible to blackmail.
This is eerily similar to the days when the media paraded hysterical
relatives of the hostages of IC 814 and took great pride in having
forced the government to succumb to jihadi blackmail. It does not bode
well for the nation if the media delights in getting the government to
'crawl' whether before Anna Hazare or before terrorists.
The government is our government, our country's government and if the
government crawls as the media gloats, it is the people of the nation
who are humiliated; it is democracy which has been diminished. It is
the media dancing to the tune of 26% FDI which has brought this
humiliation upon us.
The hysterical crowds in Delhi and elsewhere are not India. For every
hundred individuals the media is showing the world as 'India' there
are ten thousand sitting at home deeply concerned about the
consequences of this media-orchestrated frenzy.
The Catholic Church alone sees the possibility that the Prime Minister
is not going anywhere and if he
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Topic: LOKPAL: National comic-tragedy?-Rijul Singh Uppal-19 August 2011
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From: "Sandhya Jain " <sandhya206@bol.net.in>
Date: Aug 19 06:34AM +0530
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/unitedhindufront/msg/69171f0bbd5f6072
http://www.vijayvaani.com/FrmPublicDisplayArticle.aspx?id=1927
LOKPAL: National comic-tragedy?
Rijul Singh Uppal
19 August 2011
[With Shri Anna Hazare beginning his fast at Ramlila Maidan today, the
Government has bought time and begun diffusing the situation - Editor]
After blundering and dithering, the Manmohan Singh cabinet seems set
to tide over the mini-crisis created by the inept arrest of social
activist Anna Hazare. Politically, the UPA is the loser. First, it let
Hazare and his associates hijack the moral high ground on the issue of
formation of a Lokpal by negotiating with him; it bungled the Baba
Ramdev rally on the same issue; then it alienated the middle class
with Anna's detention. As urban India rose against this ham-handed
action, the old man turned the tables on the regime by staying put in
Tihar Jail…
The Opposition is seeking political mileage by supporting Anna Hazare
and his group of self-elected 'Anti-Corruption watchdogs'. In a time
of a deepening economic crisis all over the world, the government and
opposition must utilize this Parliament session to solve problems
hurting the economy, not waste time on Anna Hazare or the Lokpal. The
economy is where the real solutions to the common man's woes lie.
Civil society?
The question that hasn't been answered all throughout this movement is
regarding the matter of representation of civil society in the Lokpal
panel. Can an NGO be the ultimate authority? Can this group of
un-elected people force itself or its cronies upon the people of India
as un-accountable judge, jury and executioner? Isn't this role
supposed to be that of retired civil servants and former judges?
Who will watch this group?
With their demand to become the highest authority on corruption, what
will check possible malpractices or abuse of power by this group? Who
will keep the lokpal panel under check?
The activists want the anti-corruption wing of the CBI and the lokpal
will be one independent body. Thus the lokpal has effectively asked
for extra-constitutional powers. They seek to watch over every
constitutional body in the country, but they are out of the purview of
any agency.
The present system / Alternatives
The government has in place a system to check corruption and corrupt
activities. Fact is that without the reports of the CAG, neither the
nation nor the government would have known about the sheer size of the
2G scam, nor would anyone be able to calculate the extent of loss to
the nation. It is only due to the CAG report and the investigations
that followed that Suresh Kalmadi, Andimuthu Raja, and Kanimozhi found
themselves in the comforts of Tihar Jail.
The lokayukta system has also seen success in recent times with the
ouster of the Karnataka chief minister. The lokayukta of Delhi has
also presented his report indicting the Delhi Chief Minister and
another minister, thus starting proceedings for her ouster as well.
The Shunglu Committee and CAG have contributed here as well, with
facts and figures.
The Right to Information Act (RTI) has been effective as a public
check on the working of the central or state departments. It has led
to increased efficiency and created a scare amongst the corrupt
officials.
The negative side is growing instances of murder of RTI activists in
states, regardless of the party in power. By a coincidence, RTI
activist Shehla Masood was murdered in Bhopal on the day of Anna's
arrest. Strangely, no one in Anna's camp thought to condole the murder
and demand an enquiry and speedy punishment of the guilty. This
suggests that they all have their eyes on a bigger prize.
The Judicial Accountability and Standards Bill, currently before
Parliament for amendments, can ensure that the judiciary can be made
effectively and appropriately accountable WITHOUT compromising its
independence.
What Parliament must do without delay is to pass an effective
legislation that guarantees safe-keeping and protection of
whistleblowers and their families from any threats, physical or
otherwise. There must be in place a system to protect the identities
of the whistleblowers.
Battle for Power?
Anna's group of self-elected representatives has turned down the
government draft of the lokpal saying it is weak and only those under
the rank of a joint-secretary have been placed under it. This group
demands more power, which brings us to the question, 'Is this campaign
against corruption or is it a battle for power?'
The lokpal panel can wage a war against corruption with the power of
the government draft if they honestly want to. The PDS scam has been
on for generations and probably has caused *more monetary losses to
the exchequer than any CWG or 2G could have. The government draft
herein is powerful enough for the lokpal to look into it and clear the
mess in the PDS. But – and here lies the rub – their focus is not on
the poor at all.
Rejection of the government draft makes it clear that the primary
objective of this group is to obtain powers above those granted by the
constitution, while at the same time being un-elected and therefore
un-accountable. They seem keener to have certain offices and
institutions under their control, than to combat corruption per se.
This makes their movement suspect.
Gathering support through fairy tales
The fairy tale dreams that have been doing the rounds on mobiles and
emails about how a certain sum of black money hidden abroad can do
wonders when bought back to the country have been predominantly
responsible for the large number of supporters out on the streets of
major cities to support Anna Hazare and his lokpal team.
What the people don't realize is that it is not a child's play to get
this money back. And anyway it is Government and not the Lokpal that
can get the money eventually.
The Government of India can stand head over heels but it is the laws
of those foreign nations that will determine whether we get access to
the money. No lokpal of any kind can do it. It must also be kept in
mind that this sum of money is very small when compared to our GDP and
is more or less equal to our annual defense budget, which is many
times short that of China, and therefore this amount of money, if
recovered, will NOT lead to any number of years of tax-less budgets or
cheaper fuel, milk, or anything of that sort.
Question: Who pays?
n Does Anna's team dream of a cabinet rank or such type of
remunerations or perks funded by the taxpayer?
n Its leading activists, Arvind Kejriwal and Kiran Bedi, both
Magsaysay Award winners, wanted to institutionalize certain offices
for Magsaysay Award winners! Is that why the American Government took
up their cause with the Government of India, though it amounted to
gross interference in our internal affairs?
n Their proposed bill asks for complete financial independence
wherein the panel itself shall decide how much budget it needs, which
Government MUST pay.
n Will the Bhushan duo give up their legal practice or will they take
remunerations under the cover of legal counsel?
n Will Kiran Bedi shut down her NGO (funded by big ticket donors like
Lehman Brothers, or so we are told)? Or will she gift the NGO to her
daughter, therefore keeping open the scope for monetary flows?
n What has not been clarified is whether there will be a limited term
for each member of this panel or if these panel members will sit in
the chair for as long as they wish. They have given the idea of a
clear selection process, but who decides the timeline?
The author is a student
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