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Socialism is immoralProtest the quota systemEnd entitlement benefits for freeloaders Support the death penalty for terrorists and anti-nationals Resist "Global Governance" |
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010 |
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Who let the dogs out? | |
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 A dog walks past Mike Fennell, president of Commonwealth Games Federation People are ostensibly upset over the tragic-comic events of the CWG unfold before our eyes. It is a combination of law of averages catching up (foot bridge collapse), the stark reality that socialism simply does not work (dog poo on the beds in the athletic village) and massive levels of denial (the non-terror attack). It actually took international criticism for our media to actually realize that the village was a dud. Conversely, the message could not be controlled this time since it went beyond the scope of state controlled media. Thus, oh what a a shocker! Of course the socialists will tell you that none of these matters - a Government that can not build a decent athletic village for a smallish international games meet in its capital city (and Governed by its star CM) can administer a gargantuan scheme like NREGA successfully across the nation. As country after country, athlete after athlete pull out of the game, watch our media honchos (many of whom actually have a real financial stake in the loot - more on it later, watch this space) scramble for the proper verbiage to tell us that it really is our collective shame. Exactly how? Aren't we the communal greedy unneeded people relegated to the sidelines while The Crown Prince traipses around the countryside as his Momma the Queen watches over an able bodied administration like a Guardian Angel that sends poor children to school, feeds the hungry and (most importantly) keeps us at bay? CWG pierces the narrative, it is a peripheral event that will soon be lost to memory and obscured by TV overload. It is the dog that escaped the catcher.
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Saturday, September 11, 2010 |
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The Judiciary strikes back .... | |
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As usual, the recent Supreme Court order on food grain distribution triggered a deluge of editorials, TV shows and commentary. What we find interesting is not the order per se, but the curious evolution of the dynamics between the Judiciary and the Executive/Legislative branches of the Government. The key issue in Indian politics is the regime of ad hoc and unmonitored benefits, as blogger RealityCheck has chronicled on his blog. Ad hoc benefits directed to minorities or "caste" groups, even when thinly disguised by catch phrases like "classes" is de jure unconstitutional. As a matter of fact, a modern Constitutional Democratic Republic (CDR) can not have any incentives tied to social groups. The Liberal Democratic Republic (LDR) works around this problem by secondary activism, whereby pressure tactics and intense propaganda causes public opinion to steer so much as to threaten the functioning of the state. Compromises are struck and the public is served a full load of BS, by a group of bureaucrats whose key qualification is that they can keep a straight face amid the stench. Invariably, when CDR trends towards becoming an LDR, the Judiciary conflicts with the other two branches. In well functioning countries, Legislative eventually sides with Judiciary since opposition parties do not want to be railroaded. In other words it balances out. Executive proposes, Judiciary opposes. If executive goes too far out, political opponents exert pressure via Legislature. In other words, in order to work around the constitution, the Executive branch needs to overcome both political as well as legal challenges. In Banana (or Pasta, if you like) republics, ALL political parties want to create their own social justice groups. Contrary to secular propaganda, even the BJP holds regular Iftaar parties, promises loads of stuff to minorities - thus, in this ruinous journey all parties are but Humsaafars. In this way, in India, the judiciary comes into direct conflict with the executive. We saw this come to a head in the apex court during the "OBC reservations in central institutions" issue. After several months of duking it out, the court finally gave in. The verdict had a resigned tone about it which was not surprising, coincidentally during this time the issue of asset declaration of Judges came to the fore. It was clear that the executive was willing to go to extreme lengths. The current Supreme Court order on grain distribution is interesting because here the court has deliberately trespassed into executive territory by using the biggest trump card in an LDR poker game - social justice for the poor. This has caused much public hand wringing by the Manmohan Singh Govt. It will be interesting to see the moves of the court in the days to come.
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