And Justice For All...

Amidst the current hullabaloo of Kasab finally receiving his comeuppance, I pose a few questions: Does Kasab really care that he’s going to the gallows? Will this swift justice act as a deterrent to other terrorists? Is the outcome ever going to affect the morale of other “brainwashed” incendiaries of the society? Answer to all of the above questions, according to me, is a big “NO”. We forget the fact that these terrorists set foot in our country with the sole motive of dying for their supposed cause of waging war against our nation and disrupting its machinery and peace. They already hold the belief of making merry with some 13 virgins in paradise where they think they’ll eventually end up.

Enough has been written and said about what drives these puppets to commit unimaginable acts. Some say, they’re brainwashed before being armed with weapons of destruction. I say, it’s all bull. Every person has enough brains to choose between the two given options. By choosing to listen to some mind-numbing religious rhetoric doled out by some bushwhacking weirdo, who had a sodomite for a father, a weapons manual for books and a lopsided viewpoint of people beyond the borders of his own land, one’s merely letting that cleric fill the candidate’s thick skull with all sorts of innuendos, discrimination and the bleak worldview which the cleric himself grew up with. That’s not brainwashing, it’s simply giving up the rights to use your own brains.

As for Indian judicial system finally coming out with flying colors, after an agonizing two year wait, well, that was indeed fast. But to be honest, Kasab overstayed his welcome by living the past two years, protected, fed well, and kept alive. It should’ve been over on 26/11, or maybe, a couple of days later. The term “fair trial” is an insult to all those who put their duty above their lives. This hanging is not going to do a rat’s ass for the families of the deceased. This legal revenge would only console them for a while, but the reality of the dead ones will live on for life. Some people talk about strengthening terror laws. Yes, good point. By adopting these measures and a few months down the line, they’ll receive flaks for discriminating, just like America does every now and then. America is paying the price for toughening up terror laws. In the process of trying to weed out potential terrorists, some innocent bystanders end up facing the blunt end of the stick. That will always be on the cards, especially when a nation has faced the worst terrorist attack in the history of mankind. They’ll dot every ‘i’ and cross every ‘t’ to protect itself from future attacks. Is India willing to go down that line, and place itself on the list that America now is a prominent member of? I don’t think so. India’s too concerned with its image, and that probably will rub it in the wrong way.

I don’t see any end in sight. The recruits of these war-mongering morons are too widespread for one nation to handle. They walk among us wearing familiar faces and a smile. Only a presence of mind and studying the situation could help us a little bit in avoiding future massacres. No government is going to come running to help you put out the fire in your house; you’ll have to do it yourself.