[Assam] Armed Revolution is an Outdated Concept

[Chan Mahanta]

O' Ram:

You must be enjoying too much of the vacation paradise libations, or  
at least enjoying the sun
a bit more than you should be. Why else would you be a fan of this  
piece  of unmitigated trash?

That brings me to YOUR pithy proclamations:
	
> 	>I must agree that "Armed Revolution is an Outdated Concept".

	**** Meaning of outdated is something obsolete, not currently in  
vogue, passe', out-of-fashion .
	The comment therefore would  indicated that it was, in some past  
times fashionable, in-vogue
	etc.

	**** I have serious doubts about the reasoning abilities of people  
who think or believe
	that other people take to arms against a vastly superior force do so  
because it is ROMANTIC, or
	fashionable, or some such mindless reason.  Do YOU? Is it this damned  
English language again :-)?



	
 >I would like to add, that it is STILL valid for folks living in an  
early
> >18th/19th Century mindset.


	**** Why do you think so? Are you suggesting that better options  
exist today that did not
	then and thus it is an unnecessary tactic? If you do believe that  
India DOES provide those
	means of problem solving, why do you think there are sooo many armed  
conflicts there?
	
	Is it because there are way too many people who the Indian state has  
been unable to educate,
	leaving them behind in the stone age, leading them to nurture death- 
wishes as  romantic
	ideals and indulging in armed rebellions to be fashionable like  
Bollywood fans?

	If it is, does it not demolish the premise of the argument to begin  
with?


> Many of these "revolutionaries" cite examples of China, old USSR, or  
> may be
> some other country, and yet little do they realize, that as far as
> State-revolutionaries conflicts are concerned, India is the only  
> country
> where these armed hoods can get away - and I mean get away with blue  
> murder,
> looting, kidnapping and whatever else.


	**** And what about those in power who have the force of arms,  
political power
	privileges of cast and creed with which THEY can get away with  
murder, literally
	while slowly sucking the the life out of these unfashionable,  
uneducated, romantic
	revolutionaries, under the protection and approval of the machinery  
of state?

	Where is the liberal democratic state with the rule of law that you  
allude to, to prevent
	their misdeeds, the corruption, the tyranny, the corporate looting  
and the like?


> Pick any other country, the USA, China, Russia, even Cuba - these  
> armed
> revolutions would have been quelled down with drastic, immediate  
> force, and
> NO one would be complaining.


	****  Oh these complainers, pseudo intellectual bleeding hearts and  
the like!
	You ought to have corrected Kamath--he just wants to QUESTION  
Arundhati. They should
	lock them up and throw away the keys at the very least. I am sure  
there are more
	permanent ways to deal with them. Maybe you all should get ex-AGP  
PCMahanta
	to consult on that, he might have shared his tactics.


> India, is just too damn soft, and democracy has been hijacked by these
> "intellectuals" leading these armed hoods to suit their own purposes.

	*** Hmmm! So the 'armed hoods' are the lemmings, led by them  
'intellectual thugs'?


Think for a second Ram, just because you are capable of throwing  
around a few phrases
and cliches, but are unable to see or unwilling to acknowledge the  
fallacies in your arguments,
  it only presents yourself in a poor light!

c-da



	




On May 22, 2010, at 12:42 AM, Ram Sarangapani wrote:

> It is too early in the AM in this part of the world, or I am just  
> too damn
> dumb, but  I must agree that "Armed Revolution is an Outdated  
> Concept".
>
> I would like to add, that it is STILL valid for folks living in an  
> early
> 18th/19th Century mindset. While there are a million things wrong with
> India, these gun-totting yahoos running amok don't add one iota of
> well-being to any one - the country, their supporters, their state.  
> The only
> exception is for their own self-interest.
>
> Many of these "revolutionaries" cite examples of China, old USSR, or  
> may be
> some other country, and yet little do they realize, that as far as
> State-revolutionaries conflicts are concerned, India is the only  
> country
> where these armed hoods can get away - and I mean get away with blue  
> murder,
> looting, kidnapping and whatever else.
>
> Pick any other country, the USA, China, Russia, even Cuba - these  
> armed
> revolutions would have been quelled down with drastic, immediate  
> force, and
> NO one would be complaining.
>
> India, is just too damn soft, and democracy has been hijacked by these
> "intellectuals" leading these armed hoods to suit their own purposes.
>
> More later. Got to run for now.
>
> --Ram
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:32 AM, UTTAM BORTHAKUR <uttamborthakur at yahoo.co.in
>> wrote:
>
>> Armed revolts are stated to be outdated; the statement is not new.
>> But, what we find is it continues to this modern day.
>> Kamath trying to shoo a nagging bee away with his wishy-washy.
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