Worse than a police state.

The people in Delhi have received a threatening letter from a faceless civil servant, who styles himself / herself as Director of Citizen Registration / Director of Census Operations, Delhi, ordering everyone to attend a named center on specified days so that they can have their photographs, fingerprints and iris scans recorded. The letter is unsigned which makes it all the more menacing because we do not know the identity of the gestapo behind this conspiracy and whether to expect a visit from toughs with balaclavas over their heads in the earlier hours of the morning. The letter asks for numbers of Ration Card, Voter ID Card, Driving License Number, PAN Number, which is the identifying number with the Income Tax authorities and Passport Number. This is reminiscent of the Soviet Union under Stalin, China under Mao and Cambodia under Pol Pot. The dictatorial letter tries to justify its threat by citing the Citizenship Act 1955 and Citizenship Rules 2003 for its bullying. We, who were born before 1955, have never ever heard of such rules and previously never have been treated like the worst offenders in any prison. While the politicians keep committing the most heinous of crimes they use that as an excuse to enact even more stringent rules for citizens while they remain free. Terrorists have free run of the country. Headley was able to scout India at will. Bangladeshis keep coming in their millions across the border changing the demographics in parts of Assam and Bengal, leading to riots, but there is no attempt to throw them out. Our most revered Prime Minister goes on " bended knees " to beg for peace with Pakistan while they keep on denying any involvement in the Mumbai attacks. But these attacks are used as excuses for ever more spying on citizens and taxpayers. We do not trust the government. In fact, the government today is probably our biggest enemy. So it is especially worrying and frightening to give all personal information to this lot of criminals who are completely above the law. What if some politician, with the help of civil servants, sells this information to terrorists who then create new identities for themselves. Will anyone believe us? Sadly there is no organisation with the knowledge and funds to challenge these attacks on citizens as are in other countries. The US Healthcare act, also called Obamacare, was challenged in the US Supreme Court but here we have no such cover. Orwell was right about Big Brother but he was wrong about the the date and the place. Big Brother is here in India in 2012.