A deficit of trust.

In a long article in today's Times of India, Union minister for law and justice, Salman Khurshid defends the chicanery of the government in completely perverting the Lokpal Bill. Supporting the government retaining its control of the CBI he says," But what about administrative control of the police, paramilitary forces, armed forces, RAW and IB, or the nuclear command? We can trust the government with all these, except in observing arm's length distance from the CBI?" Police are controlled by the state only in dictatorships but not in any country with genuine democracy. Would a Jeffery Archer, MP and Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, ever go to prison in India or a Spiro Agnew, Vice President to Richard Nixon be made to resign from his post for accepting a bribe? Sukhram is still enjoying freedom and not a single Congress fellow was jailed, let alone hanged, for the massacre of Sikhs following Indira Gandhi's death. The police should be free of political control so that no criminal politician's daughter can slap a policeman in Mumbai and not be jailed. Remember Bofors? The CBI should be under independent supervision so that we do not ever again spend a billion rupees on a farce. Mind you, the CBI fellows had a wonderful time jetting off to all the expensive tourist spots in the world including St Kitts without ever being in any danger of catching big Q. As for the paramilitary and armed forces, the intelligence agencies and nuclear command we have to accept government control which is not the same as trusting the unsavory fellows. We remember how over the years the government has surrendered to our enemies. We accepted Chinese control of Tibet and allowed the cockroach-eaters into the WTO with nothing in return. We refused a Security Council seat. We returned 90000 Pakistani soldiers for nothing. We helped create the LTTE who killed our soldiers. We created Bangladesh which is now the source of most terrorists. The hijacked Air India plane was allowed to leave Amritsar airport and fly off to Kandahar. The list is endless. We absolutely do not trust the government. That is why people of Kudankulum refuse to accept a nuclear power plant in spite of repeated assurances from the Honest Man. Face the truth.