Posted on 05/28/2002 11:52:08 AM PDT by TBP
I say this all the time; usually when I stub my toe.
He said that ....
Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla, bing bang
Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla, bing bang...
Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla, bing bang
Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla, bing bang
...but I was surprised that the government allowed the reprisal slaughter of muslims in Gujarat to go on for days. So, I guess I'm still formulating an opinion. Post #22
Yeah, isn't it great? Let the games begin!
Now that we're even in character assassination by association, maybe we can stick to the issues, okay?
Why that sounds exactly like the program
of that other great lover of peace,
Yassar Arafat.
Anyway,
I am relieved to learn
that the 'Council of Khalistan' had nothing to do
with the Sikh terrorist act
that killed 300+ people
on a flight from Canada
long before 09-11-01
No, but according to Brian McAndrew of the Toronto Star and Zuhair Kashmeri of the Toronto Globe and Mail in their book Soft Target, the Indian government had a lot to do with it.
It shows that the Indian Consul General in Toronto pulled his daughter off the flight shortly before it was due to depart. An auto dealer who was a friend of the Consul General also cancelled his reservation at the last minute. Surinder Singh, director of North American Affairs for the External Affairs office in New Delhi, also cancelled his reservation on that flight.
The Consul General also called to finger a suspect in the case before the public knew that the bombing had taken place. The book quotes an agent of the Canadian State Investigative Service (CSIS) as saying, "If you really want to clear the incidents quickly, take vans down to the Indian High Commission and the consulates in Toronto and Vancouver, load up everybody and take them down for questioning. We know it and they know it that they are involved."
The BJP is militantly Hindu nationalist. Its creed is "Hindu, Hindi, Hindutva, Hindu Rashtra." Its leaders say things like all Indians must either be Hindus or subservient to Hindus.
The BJP is the political arm of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), an umbrella organization that is th parent organization of both BJP and its even more militant coalition partner, Shiv Sena. The RSS was founded in 1925 in admiration and support of the Fascists. Its tentacles include the violent Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), which is the organization that murdered missionary Graham Staines. The RSS itself has produced a booklet detailing how to file fake criminal cases against Christians and othe rminorities. Yet Prime Minister Vajpayee told an audience in New York in 2000, "I will always be a Swayamsewak."
The Congress Party is no better. For one thing, it's like the Democratic Party, only more so. It's out-and-out socialist and is in coalition with the Communist Party among many others. Despite its claim to be secular, it was a Congress government that carried out the military attack on the Golden Temple, the seat of the Sikh religion, and 38 other Sikh temples in Punjab, killing at least 20,000. It was a Congress government that inflicted the worst bloodshed on Punjab, on Kashmir, and on other minority states.
The choice is much like an election between Nazis and Communists. "Any way you look at it, you lose." There seems to be recognition of this from both sides of the aisle and from across the political spectrum here in the USA. Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-NY) has said, "The mere fact that they [minorities] have the right to choose their oppressors does not mean tehy live in a democracy." Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Cal.) has said, "When it comes to Kashmir and Punjab and Jammu, the Indian Government might as well not be a democracy. For people in those areas, India might as well be Nazi Germany.
In one instance in Punjab alone, Indian security forces recovered 28 rocket launchers, 229 rockets and missiles, 276 AK 47 rifles, 83 rifles, 184 double-barelled guns, 469 pistols, 166 revolvers, 300 hand-grenades, 103 bombs, 55 detonators, 100 kgs of explosive materials, and 67,331 cartridges -- all of Pakistani origin. The Akali Dal knows what's up, but TBP has very unkind things to say about these "other" Sikhs.
I find it increasingly difficult to find any good guys anywhere in Pakistan or in India. Everybody seems intolerant and ready to take it out on somebody different. There are even Baptist guerrillas in northeast India, for pete's sake.
Obviously, it's the extremists in every movement or political party who get the headlines, and they don't really define the average person on the street who just wants to make a living somehow. But it's difficult, at least for me, to point at one group and say, "Aha! Those are the good guys!"
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