A police state.

When union minister Kapil Sibal tried to force internet sites such as Google and Facebook to censor any criticism of Mrs Sonia Gandhi there was an uproar forcing Congress to retract. Of course, he tried to camouflage his intentions by saying he wanted to remove any abuse regarding religion, race or personal attacks on individuals. If people thought that they had been able to defend their freedom of speech they were wrong. One Vinod Rai has filed a petition in court asking for all objectionable contents to be removed. A judge at Delhi High Court has asked social networking sites to find and remove all objectionable material from their sites or else the sites will be blocked " as in China ". TOI, January 14. Politicians want to have absolute power so as not to have to answer to any questions about corruption so they would like to limit our freedom of speech. So we need the judiciary to protect our basic fundamental rights. The extreme right wing government in Hungary has just changed the constitution limiting press freedom. Earlier South Africa has passed similar laws which has prompted some to say that the country was returning to the apartheid era. In Russia since 1993 around 300 journalists have been killed or are missing. Anna Politkovsaya was shot in front of her apartment door. Iran shut down social networks during the vicious crackdown on protesters after the stolen elections of 2009. Mubarak shut down these sites during the protests in Egypt in January and Assad is trying to do the same in Syria. In every parameter of economic development China is 100 years ahead of India. It has 3 trillion dollars in reserve, fantastic roads, no shortage of electricity, better education, better research facilities and enormous military superiority. They thrashed us in 1991 and are still occupying some 50000 square miles of Indian territory in Kashmir and the north east. We in India had at least one bragging right and that was that our press is relatively free though most journalists, being freeloaders, will defend the crimes of politicians. But even this limited freedom is too much for Congress. A recent front page ad in The Hindu had a full page picture of Mrs Sonia Gandhi with the words " We remain, Madamji, ever at your feet ". This was paid for by a businessman, H Vasanthakumar. A party of spineless creepy crawlies, the Congress would love a dictatorship of the Gandhi family so that they could loot forever. The slippery slope to North Korea.