{"id":91,"date":"2012-12-26T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sibha.online\/wprandom\/2012\/12\/26\/too-much-of-democracy\/"},"modified":"2020-06-15T18:09:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T12:39:38","slug":"too-much-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/2012\/12\/26\/too-much-of-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Too much of Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Too much of democracy.. too many rights and too\u00a0 few responsibilities<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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It all started with an absolutely heinous crime. The criminals seem to fear no law, no law enforcer or no law maker. It may be persumed that when something\u00a0 takes place like 9\/11, 26\/11 or for that matter the Newtown shoot out in US, everyone; the govt, the opposition , Police , citizens all unite against the perpetrators of the ghastly crime.. No, not in India and definitely not in Delhi.<\/p>\n

The criminals fear nobody. It goes without saying that neither law makers nor law enforcers fear anyone except perhaps losing their power.<\/p>\n

Coming to the protesters, they are law unto themselves. Do they fear anything or anyone ? When there were ‘police brutalities’ being shown on the TV channels, I saw at least one young woman pouncing like a panther on an unsuspecting policeman.<\/p>\n

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We have a right to protest, so will protest when we want where we want, the way we want. You can’t send us off to jantar mantar or ramlila maidan. We like to protest at India Gate. The fact that delhites prefer to call the National War Memorial as ‘India Gate’ hurts me every time I hear it spoken and to add to the woes we have ‘India Gate basmati rice’. So much for the sanctity of a war <\/span><\/i>memorial<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The media and the Internet community is livid with the police using water cannons; after all the protesters were just peacefully storming thorough the police barricades and marching towards Rashtrapathi Bhawan, to shake hands with the President. Can’t a citizen meet the President of the Republic ? Who are these policemen to come in between ?<\/p>\n

Arvind Kejriwal tweats “defy sec 144 , come to india gate”. What are laws for except to defy ?<\/p>\n

The so called national media has been stuck with dilli news for ever.\u00a0 When I want to watch national or international news I tune to DD News or even a regional channel like ‘puthiya thalaimurai’. Ya, to get an update on\u00a0 the law and order or traffic situation in Delhi I tune to ndtv or cnn-ibn. Does the the media respect anything or any institution ? Whatever they say on their channel, it is worth reading their tweets, to know how they feel on any issue.<\/p>\n

Sagarika Ghosh of CNN-IBN tweats\u00a0 “Those ridiculous lal battis, ape-like commandos<\/b>, fortified bungalows, all VIPs shd give up “security” and feel \u00efnsecurity” of public “<\/span><\/p>\n

Does she know\u00a0 how many times the “ape-like being” must have risked his life to train himself to become a commando and does she have an idea of the continuous training and deprivation one goes through to remain a commando? Well she is exercising her freedom of expression. Defy authority, demean the security forces, after all she is paying her taxes out of which army, police and the other govt servants are paid.<\/p>\n

Overall I think\u00a0 India in general and Delhi in particular needs to understand an ounce of their responsibilities than fight for\u00a0 tonnes of their rights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Too much of democracy.. too many rights and too\u00a0 few responsibilities It all started with an absolutely heinous crime. The criminals seem to fear no law, no law enforcer or no law maker. It may be persumed that when something\u00a0 takes place like 9\/11, 26\/11 or for that matter the Newtown shoot out in US, … Continue reading “Too much of Democracy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}