Guru bin jaoo(n) kahaa(n)
Afzal Guru hanged, atlast. Some say its at (our) loss. Omar Abdullah says the hanging alienates Kashmiris, Mehabooba Mufti says hanging creates wedge between Kashmir and rest of the country. BJP expectedly says 'delayed but welcome'. Cong says 'law has taken its course and guidlines and procedures were followed'. Many activists say there was no fair trial for Guru. A few in them go all the way upto writing off the goodwill measures with Kashmiris. Majority among those say that he was not perpertrator but only a conspirator and this fact was overlooked.
Those who claim there was no fair trial are simply trying to play victim card. Its like your neighbour comes to your place behead your folks and claim himself as victim with no 'sharam' expecting to 'shake' you with logic. Well if we all are great economists of the world may be we could understand the strategic, visionary logic and might even agree to it. But I being one of lesser mortals have some thougts, queries, doubts.
There was as much as 7 years in between the last upholding judgement of the supreme court to president's pardon rejection. I am not sure what these 'fair trial' activists were doing in all these 7 years. If needed they could have filed yet another review petition in SC, not sure why it wasn't done, or who knows, they could even have used their friendly neighbourhood spidermen to take it up with UN or even go all the way upto International court of Justice. Don't they know TN politicians? May be these activists were pegging on their belief that presidential pardon would be granted to him.
So "no fair" trial claim is humbug its more a trial of garnering sympathy vote than with logic. Coming to the another claim made by these activits "capital punishment for a conspirator is too much". This claim seems to be bereft of valid logic, despite it looks compelling. If this argument is taken then it would reduce the thought to 'only foot solders are the perpertrators all others are not'. This defeats the general guidelines of criminal jurisprudence, that the person who actually makes some one to commit a crime is more criminal than the person who commits the crime. Also, if we go by these activists and intelligensia's logic then Idi Amin, Adolf Hitler, Mussoulini (no i will not take Stalin's name here) are all "only conspirators". Hitler is not the perpertrator of Jewish Holocoust, he is merely a "conspirator", nay "co-conspirator". So if he were alive, per this logic, he should be tried for 7 years imprisonment sentence. Imagine if Afzal Guru and other masterminds, pardon me, co-conspirators, used 5 robots to breach into parliament house instead of using 5 militants, and remote control these robots to kill people. Our activists, think tanks, would have got satisfied with just the robots being destroyed and Afzal being given 7 years sentence, ok, ok some may say theek hai baba life till death without parole 'de do' (but allow his family to come and visit him and after 2 years, since he was 'law abiding' allow his family to stay with him) kind of claims would have been made and all our media persons would gleefully give them bytes and spaces to talk about this path breaking suggestion of them.
Another point made by some of these activists, thinkers and strategic analysts, is "Given that it is the first time for Afzal guru and he doesn't have a track record of criminal activities, his mercy petition should have been accepted (nay, even the SC should have commuted it to life) ". With this claim every one has right to hatch one time conspiracy to sabotage parliament, supreme court, raisina hill, 10 race course road, raj bhavans, secretariats. You see most of us do not have criminal records.
Finally, yet another logic "why guru, why no beant killers, rajiv killers". Well all these terrorists have to meet their punishment. Terrorists or their sympathisers do not have right to question the prioritization. Agreed Cong tries to score some brownie points here, agreed BJP is equivalently in sticky wicket when comes to Beant's killers, both Cong and BJP beat around the bush on the LTTE terrorists. But because one is priortized and other are not, leaders of respective states cannot claim it as injustice met to their state and 'race' people. By saying so what these leaders imply is simple. Their state people are supporters of terrorists inspire from only terrorists and not from positive achievers of their state. I do not single out Omar Abdullah here, one would have expected similar statement from 'Tamil Kavalar' leaders if it were LTTEs or 'Punjabiyat' leaders if it were Beant killers.
We the people, who do big fight in left, right, center and all corners of the nation should have basic thought to differentiate normal criminal activities and its treatment, vis-a-vis criminal activities against a state, nation, or a community. If we start doing that then our nation would soon become the weak that wasn't, otherwise we would be living with only Devils and their advocates.
Those who claim there was no fair trial are simply trying to play victim card. Its like your neighbour comes to your place behead your folks and claim himself as victim with no 'sharam' expecting to 'shake' you with logic. Well if we all are great economists of the world may be we could understand the strategic, visionary logic and might even agree to it. But I being one of lesser mortals have some thougts, queries, doubts.
There was as much as 7 years in between the last upholding judgement of the supreme court to president's pardon rejection. I am not sure what these 'fair trial' activists were doing in all these 7 years. If needed they could have filed yet another review petition in SC, not sure why it wasn't done, or who knows, they could even have used their friendly neighbourhood spidermen to take it up with UN or even go all the way upto International court of Justice. Don't they know TN politicians? May be these activists were pegging on their belief that presidential pardon would be granted to him.
So "no fair" trial claim is humbug its more a trial of garnering sympathy vote than with logic. Coming to the another claim made by these activits "capital punishment for a conspirator is too much". This claim seems to be bereft of valid logic, despite it looks compelling. If this argument is taken then it would reduce the thought to 'only foot solders are the perpertrators all others are not'. This defeats the general guidelines of criminal jurisprudence, that the person who actually makes some one to commit a crime is more criminal than the person who commits the crime. Also, if we go by these activists and intelligensia's logic then Idi Amin, Adolf Hitler, Mussoulini (no i will not take Stalin's name here) are all "only conspirators". Hitler is not the perpertrator of Jewish Holocoust, he is merely a "conspirator", nay "co-conspirator". So if he were alive, per this logic, he should be tried for 7 years imprisonment sentence. Imagine if Afzal Guru and other masterminds, pardon me, co-conspirators, used 5 robots to breach into parliament house instead of using 5 militants, and remote control these robots to kill people. Our activists, think tanks, would have got satisfied with just the robots being destroyed and Afzal being given 7 years sentence, ok, ok some may say theek hai baba life till death without parole 'de do' (but allow his family to come and visit him and after 2 years, since he was 'law abiding' allow his family to stay with him) kind of claims would have been made and all our media persons would gleefully give them bytes and spaces to talk about this path breaking suggestion of them.
Another point made by some of these activists, thinkers and strategic analysts, is "Given that it is the first time for Afzal guru and he doesn't have a track record of criminal activities, his mercy petition should have been accepted (nay, even the SC should have commuted it to life) ". With this claim every one has right to hatch one time conspiracy to sabotage parliament, supreme court, raisina hill, 10 race course road, raj bhavans, secretariats. You see most of us do not have criminal records.
Finally, yet another logic "why guru, why no beant killers, rajiv killers". Well all these terrorists have to meet their punishment. Terrorists or their sympathisers do not have right to question the prioritization. Agreed Cong tries to score some brownie points here, agreed BJP is equivalently in sticky wicket when comes to Beant's killers, both Cong and BJP beat around the bush on the LTTE terrorists. But because one is priortized and other are not, leaders of respective states cannot claim it as injustice met to their state and 'race' people. By saying so what these leaders imply is simple. Their state people are supporters of terrorists inspire from only terrorists and not from positive achievers of their state. I do not single out Omar Abdullah here, one would have expected similar statement from 'Tamil Kavalar' leaders if it were LTTEs or 'Punjabiyat' leaders if it were Beant killers.
We the people, who do big fight in left, right, center and all corners of the nation should have basic thought to differentiate normal criminal activities and its treatment, vis-a-vis criminal activities against a state, nation, or a community. If we start doing that then our nation would soon become the weak that wasn't, otherwise we would be living with only Devils and their advocates.
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