[Assam] Armed Revolution is an Outdated Concept

Sat May 22 18:31:59 PDT 2010

Well,let me try once again.It means--to assume that someone is stupid.
It will be extremely unfair to sit in judgement on a person like
Mr.Kamath by projecting him as an idiot.I,for one,will never be able
to summon up my guts to classify him as such.-:)
You want evidence in the form of videos as to how these barbarians
react after carrying out carnage on civilians?  It is really sad and
embarrassing to read such a feeble display of reasoning.
What do you think--these " unblemished saints ",who have been
indoctrinated to embrace terrorism, weep full of bucket after
traumatizing unarmed civilians over and over again.
Nihilistic--because of their belief that destruction of existing
political or social institutions is necessary for future improvement.
Do you really want me to laud these terror squads as " Gandhian with
gun"? But that will be,I am afraid,as persuasive as " celibate
rapist"!!!
KJD

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at gmail.com> wrote:
>>Better yet,if one uses the idiom that goes " Take
>>
>> someone for an idiot and take someone for a fool".
>
>
> *** I try to understand what my literate friends say, even if it may not be
> very flattering.
> I suspect this ain't either. But what does it mean? And it is an IDIOM?
>
> Then,  what happens when one uses it?
>
> Well, I must BE  an idiot, not being able to fathom such a, well, common
> IDIOM .
> Or am I ?
>
>
>>These terror
>>
>> masters tend to rejoice in murders after carrying out their evils on
>> innocent civilians.
>
> *** Hmmm! That is not nice!! Any videos to prove? There must be some
> to back up such examples of certitude.
>
>
>>These are the same dim-wits,who are immune to
>>
>> persuasion and dialogue and passivity is judged as weakness.
>
>
> *** Whose passivity are we alluding to? GoI, GoC, PC, MaSi, who?
> Dimwits can never be persuaded. Otherwise they won't be dimwits.
> Will they? So what is the plan to make them steel-trap-minded,
> persuable people? Bomb them to smithereens? Call them names?
> Unleash assamnet wordsmiths with their fanciful 'gaali's? Or just go
> rah-rah with the steel-trap-minded sekuritywallah, Sri Kamath?
>
>
>>I do not find any better way to style these terrorists other than
>>
>> bunching them as cretins.
>
>
> *** That MUST hurt. I know, I can get rough with my words at times.
> But call anyone CRETINS? No, I won't go that far. Not if he were my worst
> enemy. That is cruel and unusual punishment. An idiot perhaps, in certain
> contexts. But surely NOT cretins.  I couldn't if I wished. I don't know any
> French.
>
>>Never mind.He,who lives by the sword,dies by the sword.
>
> *** Now THAT is a true piece of ACTIVE ( as opposed to PASSIVE)
> call for action!
>
>
>>At some point
>>
>> of time,these scumbags will surely be taking unilateral route to hell
>> hole.
>
> *** Hell hole? Wow, that sure sounds like something worse than just plain
> HELL.
> Like some uber-heck? Really? So, does that mean nobody needs to fret over
> them cretins?
> They are destined to uber-heck, so let us go home and uncork some bubbly,
> since
>
>> their Machiavellian and nihilistic design will come to an end
>> soon.
>
> :-)
>
> PS: I did have some fun with this. But seriously, come on K.
> You know a whole lot better than this. Why don't you wait
> until you have some time to respond with something thoughtful
> instead of shooting from the hip like this and  missing the target by a mile
> :-)?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On May 22, 2010, at 2:22 PM, kamal deka wrote:
>
>> Very well said.Better yet,if one uses the idiom that goes " Take
>> someone for an idiot and take someone for a fool".
>> I could not agree more with Kamath,who has touched upon a very topical
>> and timely issue with respect to those terror gurus.These terror
>> masters tend to rejoice in murders after carrying out their evils on
>> innocent civilians.These are the same dim-wits,who are immune to
>> persuasion and dialogue and passivity is judged as weakness.The top
>> leaders have been living high off the hog while others are left in the
>> hole.I do not find any better way to style these terrorists other than
>> bunching them as cretins.
>> Never mind.He,who lives by the sword,dies by the sword.At some point
>> of time,these scumbags will surely be taking unilateral route to hell
>> hole.Their Machiavellian and nihilistic design will come to an end
>> soon.
>> Regards,
>> KJ Deka,
>> Texas
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Nava Thakuria <navathakuria at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> please mind it.
>>> It is easier for a perfect idiot to term other as idiots outrightly.
>>> nava thakuria
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>> From: Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at gmail.com>
>>> To: A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world
>>> <assam at assamnet.org>
>>> Sent: Sat, May 22, 2010 2:34:01 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Assam] Armed Revolution is an Outdated Concept
>>>
>>> Every now and then we see articles that are written by idiots  containing
>>> little more than idiocy, and circulated as wisdom to take note. But this one
>>> takes the prize for a perfectly mindless one.
>>>
>>> cm
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 21, 2010, at 3:53 PM, Nava Thakuria wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.sentinelassam.com/editorial/story.php?sec=3&subsec=0&id=36719&dtP=2010-05-22&ppr=1#36719
>>>>
>>>> Armed Revolution is an Outdated Concept
>>>>
>>>> The poor are told that violence alone will solve their problem when
>>>> violence does nothing of that kind. It will only add to their prevailing
>>>> misery
>>>> How long do we have to wait for the traitorous Naxalite rebellion to be
>>>> quelled? The UPA government is looking like a standing joke. If we are to
>>>> believe Home Minister P Chidambaram, the government will get rid of the
>>>> Naxals before the term of the UPA-II ends. Does he know how the former West
>>>> Bengal Chief Minister Siddartha Shankar Ray did his job?
>>>> After what happened at Dantewada, one of the poorest districts in India
>>>> with 66 per cent of the 7.2 lakh population of tribal origin, the UPA
>>>> government should have stepped down and fresh elections should have been
>>>> held. That the Naxalites should have succeeded in killing 74 members of the
>>>> Alpha Company of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in an ambush at
>>>> Chintalnar indicates the sheer impudence of the Naxalites. Apparently,
>>>> throughout the tribal belt extending to an estimated 200 districts, Naxal
>>>> cadres number more than 10,000. What is more shocking and shameful is that
>>>> these forces have the tacit support of so-called intellectuals like
>>>> Arundhati Roy, who needs to be questioned. The exact number of Maoists is
>>>> open to guesswork, but again, according to another count, they number
>>>> “several thousand” and are well-equipped with Insas Rifles, AK-47s, grenades
>>>> and rocket launchers, additionally capable of making Improvised Explosive
>>>> Devises (IEDs).
>>>> Furthermore, they are also supported by an excellent intelligence
>>>> service.
>>>> From where did the Naxalites get their weapons? Who stitched their
>>>> uniform? It is claimed by Minhaz Merchant, chairman of a media group, “that
>>>> powerful vested interests benefit from the Maoist insurgency” and that “the
>>>> financial nexus between politicians, businessmen and Maoists thrives in a
>>>> manufactured environment of lawlessness”. Are our intelligence agencies
>>>> aware of who these “politicians and businessmen” are? Should not they be
>>>> interrogated? Importantly, should not the Congress Party, which has been in
>>>> power for the last six years and more, have given serious thought to what
>>>> has been going on under its very nose?
>>>> The usual charges are that the tribals have been deprived of their
>>>> forest lands, that they have been denied access to jobs and other sources of
>>>> living, that they have been denied access to education, and that, by and
>>>> large, they have been largely ignored. Surely, all these charges can be
>>>> effectively met without having to take resort to violence? If the late Nana
>>>> Saheb Deshmukh could work wonder in his own chosen tribal field in
>>>> Maharashtra, surely others, equally deeply committed, can replicate his
>>>> success? Is violence the only way to draw the attention of the
>>>> powers-that-be for the betterment of tribal life? Several intellectual
>>>> supporters of Naxalism have expressed their views like Varavara Rao,
>>>> activist Himanshu Kumar and another one of the kind known as “Kishenji”.
>>>> To begin with, why does not the Government of India ask them to submit
>>>> detailed plans to help tribals? Surely that is not too much to ask? Instead
>>>> of attacking the government for establishing Salwa Jadum— in the face of
>>>> sustained violence — did the government have any other option? Cannot our
>>>> intellectuals change their mindset and provide the government with a
>>>> well-thought-out plan to bring tribals into the mainstream of Indian life?
>>>> Has anyone prevented them from developing a positive outlook towards tribal
>>>> enrichment? One gets the clear impression that some of our mentally sick
>>>> intellectuals prefer to romanticize the concept of “revolutionary
>>>> terrorism”, rather than to take over the earthy task of working out concrete
>>>> proposals to enrich tribal life. It sounds terribly romantic to wage war
>>>> against the country in the name of tribal needs, and the blame lies entirely
>>>> on the UPA government for its soft-kneed approach towards every issue
>>>> hurting
>>>> the motherland.
>>>> This columnist has in the past suggested the setting up of the separate
>>>> Indian Tribal Service, parallel to the Indian Administrative Service, to
>>>> serve exclusively in tribal areas, so that tribal needs and requirements are
>>>> identified and fully met. Roads can be laid down. Schools can be
>>>> established. Medical attention can be provided. Jobs within the tribal
>>>> jurisdiction can be created, and a rich and meaningful life can be
>>>> guaranteed to the tribal population. That is obviously not what our
>>>> revolutionaries want. They want glamour, publicity. Our screwball
>>>> intellectuals want to go back to the twenties and thirties and plan
>>>> ‘‘revolution’’. They want to raise funds through intimidating and blackmail,
>>>> make secret arms purchase, transport them under the very nose of the police
>>>> and bring death and destruction. The very concept of an “armed revolution”
>>>> is stupid in this day and age. It invites administrative reaction during
>>>> which many innocents would
>>>> inevitably get killed. One activist, Himanshu Kumar, is quoted as asking
>>>> why, granting Naxalism is a problem, that poor people are “attracted to
>>>> politics that will end in death”. The answer is obvious. The poor are told
>>>> that violence alone will solve their problem when violence does nothing of
>>>> that kind. It will only add to their prevailing misery. But how is one to
>>>> convince Naxalites that the prescription they offer is out of fashion and
>>>> today one has to turn to out-of-box solution for known problems?
>>>> One thing is obvious: the government of the day must undertake massive
>>>> public works and welfare schemes. Andhra Pradesh’s State Economic Adviser Mr
>>>> Somayajulu has been quoted as saying that economic development and welfare
>>>> schemes have transformed the Maoist scene in his State to the point that
>>>> Maoism has lost its attraction for the once unemployed youth. Maoist
>>>> incidents in Andhra Pradesh fell from 576 in 2005 to 62 in 2009, Maoist
>>>> killings from 211 to 17, and police deaths from 25 to zero. What was done in
>>>> Andhra Pradesh can be duplicated in Chhatisgarh and Jharkhand. But there,
>>>> surely, are other ways to help tribal people earn and decent livelihood like
>>>> production of pappads to making of dolls which can be marketed, not just in
>>>> India but worldwide. And, at the administrative level, there has to be a
>>>> proliferation of government offices equipped with the latest communication
>>>> technology. But one thing is absolutely a must. And that is to treat Maoists
>>>> not as fellow citizens, but as traitors and murderers. No mercy should
>>>> be shown to them. Their headquarters have to be bombed. An organization
>>>> responsible for the killing of upwards of 6,000 innocent people from 1996 to
>>>> 2009 has to be wiped out of the surface of the earth. Importantly, the
>>>> Maoists should get the message that there is a strong government in Delhi
>>>> which will not accept armed rebellion anywhere and those who indulge in will
>>>> have to pay a heavy price.
>>>> MV Kamath
>>>>
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