Watchout for the Civil Society - Part 2

Crocodile tears for constitutional rights….

The Italian Maatha sponsored “pseudo civil society” has come out of the woodwork, again. Last time, they went around the country after the Ayodhya verdict, now they are doing the lecture circuit, opinion planting in allied news channels etc. about a big danger posed to the nation by the victory of the “real civil society” under the leadership Anna Hazare.

They usually raise concerns, as to how constitutional safeguards are being breached ? How unelected and unaccountable folks will draft legislation, make laws and worse prosecute people. The constitutional rights of the people who the lokpal bill will go after is being violated etc. This is nothing but total bullshit.

First, Consider this -- I am the master and I instruct my servants to do something, which is their routine job, then I am violating their constitutional rights ! Believe it or not, their argument is this non-sense. The people of India who are the real masters are now instructing their servants (in parliament) to enact a law to check corruption, which they should have done out of their own volition long ago and for that we are now violating the constitution. All that is being done is a bill is being drafted with eminent citizens and it will be the passed by the parliament. There is a club of thugs, thieves and the corrupt in the lok sabha and even if by a stroke of lightning the law gets passed we have Italian Maatha’s next ally - the murder/fraud accused doormat (also know as Prathiba Patil) as the president. When push comes to shove, these “safeguards” will kick-in for the Maatha at that time you can bet that the “pseudo civil society” will be shriller and even more non-sense, if that is really possible !

Second, let us look at the “Victims” of this bill. Who are they ? They are people against whom primafacie evidence of corruption is established and by prosecuting them with alacrity ensuring swift and severe punishment we are violating their constitutional rights ! They are being convicted with due process law with the loop holes closed and routine adjournments etc. not allowed. Yet somehow, this is violating their constitutional rights for the “pseudo civil society”.

Right now, we have the following “eminent personalities” from the government in the committee:
1. Kapil Sibal: Who doesn’t see any corruption in the 2G scam, worse defends, obfuscates all the criminality of Raja
2. Veerappa Moily: Who underwent prosecution for having delivered suitcases full of cash to topple Rama Krishna Hegde government in Karnataka and also killed the potential and teeth out of the present lok pal bill
I don’t even have to look at anybody else, the presence of these two is proof enough that we need someone committed to counter balance these crooks. Even with civil society folks in I will bet on these two bastards to use all their “legal skills” to stand in the way. Perhaps, Anna Hazare’s request to public telecast the proceedings of the committee is not that far fetched at all.

So when you see someone shedding tears for violation of your constitutional rights, watch out….

PS: It is not that the bill proposed by the Anna Hazare camp is flawless, in fact it is biased in some cases towards the likes of Medha Phatkar and Arundati Roy et al and could become a platform for the anti-development motley crew. If a decision is not corrupt then it should be totally outside the purview of lokpal. Similarly, corruption by anyone in any branch of the government should be under the ambit of the lokpal, if there are constitutional amendments needed to make that happen, they should happen.