Indian lives are cheap.

There has been a lot of breast beating in newspapers regarding the gang-rape of a young woman in a bus in Delhi. She was so badly beaten up that she was on life support for many days and most of her intestines had to be removed. Angry citizens are claiming for the death penalty for rapists. But will anything be done? The answer has to be a resounding no. Police are under control of politicians who will never let go. In the US, House Majority Leader, who would be equivalent to the leader of the Lok Sabha, Tom DeLay was convicted of money laundering and sentenced to 3 years in prison in January 2011. His crime? He diverted corporate donations to Republican candidates for election expenses. Illinois governor, Rod Blagojevich is serving a 12 year sentence since March 2012 for corruption in public life. He had wanted to sell Obama's state senate seat to the highest bidder. Since all our politicians are scumbags they will never risk an independent and efficient police. Who has ever heard of criminals cheering the police? Instead the police are used for useless activities like immigration check at the international airport, for giving out driving licenses and for standing around bored at random barricades set up on busy streets for no purpose. The biggest waste of the police is in guarding VIPs, the same criminals they should be locking up. At least 7315 policemen guard 416 VIPs of which 968 are at the Rashtrapathi Bhavan alone. But it is not just the police. The entire justice system is slanted towards helping criminals escape justice. On 15 February 2 marines on the Italian ship, the Enrica Lexie shot and killed 2 fishermen off the coast of Kerala. They were arrested and charged with murder. The Italian government argued that the marines could not be tried in India because the murders took place in international waters. In April the central government told the Supreme Court that the Kerala police were not empowered to detain the ship and questioned the right of the state to investigate the incident. This is our government arguing for Italian murderers. An upset Supreme Court said," We do not expect such a stand of the central government. It is unfortunate when person killed on February 15 were within Indian territorial waters." Despite this the High Court in Kerala allowed the 2 marines to fly home for Christmas yesterday on bank guarantees of Rs 60 million and unconditional joint undertaking to return by 10 January. We can assume that they will never return. Instead the Italians will waste court time by filing endless specious appeals. Would the Italians have dared to make such a ridiculous request in any European country, in the US or in China? They know that Manu Sharma was allowed out on parole to attend nightclubs, Amarmani Tripathy is holding darbars in Gorakhpur and the pedophile Rathore was let out after 6 months. When mother India is being raped everyday what price our daughters?