Terrorists and traitors must be eliminated.

A fierce debate has broken out on whether Yakub Memon should have been hanged. Some make the case for hanging saying that keeping a man locked up for life is equally brutal. He was responsible for the death of 257 innocent people, who did not deserve to die either, and by showing contempt for human life he showed that he did not value his own life. Punishment must fit the crime and if the judicial system is seen as weak then people will extract revenge. People demand retribution for odious crimes and it is better for the state to punish the guilty than a rapist being lynched to death for raping a 7 year old girl. Keeping Maulana Masood Azhar and Sheikh Omar was directly responsible for the hijack of flight IC 814 to Kandahar in 1999 and an abject surrender by the Indian state. That made terrorists bolder resulting in the Mumbai attack in 2008, killing another 164 people. A new law will punish hijacking a plane with the death penalty. That will make any sense if the government of the day has the courage to stand firm against demands made by hijackers and not to surrender cravenly, as it did in the case of IC 814. Trouble is that India is a nation of traitors and opposition politicians are trying to ingratiate themselves with the ' minority vote bank ' by criticising the hanging. Seems that Dawood Ibrahim wanted to return to India but politicians did not take his offer because he knew too much. Dawood's aide, Chota Shakeel has threatened of consequences. A criminal scum dares to threaten India. After all, the British ruled India not by bringing battalions of soldiers from Britain but by paying locals to build an army with which to beat Indian rulers. Some have used maths to prove that capital punishment does not reduce crime, by quoting studies done in the US. Absolutely true. Someone in a rage loses all control while criminals, such as drug gangs, will target informers or the police. Terrorists, on the other hand deliberately target innocent people to destabilise the nation. The response has to be ferocious and disproportionate. Does that work? Absolutely, as Israel has shown repeatedly. Following the Munich massacre of Israeli athletes by the Black September group Israel launched Operation Wrath of God to kill every Palestinian involved. In 1976 an Air France plane from Tel Aviv was hijacked by Palestinians and flown to Entebbe airport in Uganda where the then President Idi Amin's soldiers held them hostage. Israeli forces rescued the hostages with the loss of one soldier and 3 civilians. Amin is said to have hidden inside a closet. Israel has a Hannibal Protocol which says that a hostage situation must be prevented even if it kills the hostage. Eight million Israelis survive surrounded by 400 million Arabs. Strength lives on, cowards perish and traitors must be hanged.