Yes there is a stubborn collective blindness on the part of "civil society" (What is this civil society? Are you referring to the middle classes who live in urban areas, who have abdicated their role in the governance of a nation, who don’t care about the issues of development and instead are bothered about their own selfish petty interests, who prefer to live in gated communities, in their own little worlds of ignorance, who would be bothered about human rights only if it affects themselves? The same people who only cared too much about 26/11 (and no other act of terrorism before that) because they attacked 5 star hotels, and even then, abstained from the General elections, because they do not believe in the vote? The same group of people who do not believe in reforming the state, because they don’t care about the state as they are currently deceiving themselves into believing that they can live without it? Or the elites, many among of whom, benefit from the corruption of the state and who are the ones responsible for exploiting the tribals? Or are you referring to the non-tribal and not upper class masses who have even more horrible problems and petty self-interest s to even care about the tribals? Is it the same civil society which needs some great jolt like the Emergency and 26/11 get out of its slumber). But how do you think this "civil society" will be inspired to take action, without this crisis reaching the point of an existential threat, to the very "fabric of the state and society". Please tell me for even I do not know, as I am not an authority on this matter.
I am sorry for using the phrase- threat to national security. It should have been an existential threat to the nation, which will multiply as these so-called revolutionaries soon take up the causes of many other marginalized groups(neglected by politicians and "civil society") and then later overthrow the present state, for a draconian and totalitarian regime, based on flawed principles that have caused misery to millions, which has been abandoned by the so-called practitioners themselves. And what is the guarantee that that regime will be better than the this one? It may become corrupt in the true sense and it will be even more repressive than this one.
But why should we worry? Even if the "civil society" does nothing and the state does not reform itself, it would still take years for these so-called revolutionaries to take over. But in the process about a mass of people would have been slaughtered, rendered homeless and leading an existence worse than damnation (and it will not matter whose side they were, they will be just mute people who are neutral to ideology, who are too marginalized to do anything).
I am really sorry for saying "national security", but I am just a student, who isn't an authority on this matter. I have just given an opinion on this.
Monday, November 2, 2009
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