By Donn Morgan Ng Kipgen
—James Kirkup
(No men are Foreign)
Beware of the Ides of March!! Well, the dangers of them all have began to come, all in the form of the 2009 MP General Election in most parts of the nation. It will stay that way till a new political King, the Queen and real Dauphine (Yuvraj) Rahul Gandhi are all put in the right place. Though the old age universal dictum, “Politics is the last refuge of a scoundrel” might not be applicable in general terms in these days but it does give an outward identities to some semiliterate or soft-spoken political leaders with multiple criminal records as thick as the Guidelines of the Election Commission and their volatile followers. While the world largest democracy rolls out its jaggernaut (Jagannath) in motion for the next “Aryan Parsean” dominated desi-Reich, some unlucky mothers’ sons and daughters would inevitably pay or “sacrificed” their lives and limbs at the cruel hands of politically-motivated armed criminals and even some trigger-happy security personnel in retaliatory or mob control firings. Needless to say, hundreds of armed extremists, mercenaries, terrorists and right-wing or misguided UG outfits would have a money-powered field days. As of now, for an otherwise coveted MP seat, and then onto the ultimate spell-binding PM’s Race Course Office, all the political top guns are oiling their automatic hunting rifles with the magnetic “Gandhi bank notes” instead of the pragmatic “Gandhian Principles of the State Policy” as practically advised in the Constitution of India. Politics has become more of a regulation 5 yrs term’s bloody war of attrition powered by murky sense of political and ethnical enmities, vision of needless revenge or vengeance just for the sake of sheer hatred, money, hollow-pride and an open show of muscle powers. We, the patriotic citizens of India, need to learn from the otherwise peaceful Anglo-American form of modern political rivalry, the honourable thumb’s up to the victors and chivalrous acceptance of painful defeat with full grace and hopeful future.
The recent US Presidential Election of 2008 - 09 had shown us to the fullest that general election and high-voltage politics could be conducted and exercised without killings, bombings, personal enmity, and ending with honourable handshakes. How many American Presidential party-workers and voters lost their lives and limbs or how many Constitutional actions were initiated during the campaigning, voting and vote-counting? Officially none, even atleast for hawk-eyes’ media boys. Yes, there were socio-political war of words and hostile show of statesmanship from the ticket campaigns (esp the Democrat party) even from the primary phase itself but things were strictly non-personal and hotly fought within civilised political ethics. Indeed, there might have been some inevitable anti-social activities, or even some acts of politically isolated violence, in the US Presidential and British General Elections, but they apparently did not merit a space or column in their national news media.
Tact and diplomacy are the two primary cogs in the golden wheel of political statesmanship which pull, at times push, a highly developed nation and great politico-military nation in all recorded socio-political generations. The recent surprising appointment of Senator Hillary Clinton (New York) as the Secretary of State by US President Barack Obama after being given a multiple bloody noses by the former First Lady in sharp battles for Democratic Presidential Election Ticket war which was won as narrowly upto the last primaries was a master stroke for the New Man in the White House’s Oval Office. President Obama, hard pressed as he was, knew the best person, tried and fully tested with first hand experiences for the job of the American “Home and Foreign Minister’s” post, ie. The Secretary of State, and thus, in comes Mrs Clinton.
President Obama has done a President Lincoln who appointed hostile Democrat leaders like the Secy of War W Stanton and, of course, the highly independent Secretary of Treasury who helped him won the American Civil War (1861-64) with a semi-retired and hard-drinking lowly Brig General named Ulysses Grant from wilderness to win the war. The much-detested Gen Grant went on to become a US President. Hundred years later, Gen Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower emulated President Grant by becoming a US President despite his much-maligned personal relationship with his war-time private secretary, namely Ms Kate Summersby, a war-widowed British general staff officer’s aide. Ten years later, Lt John F Kennedy replaced his former Commander-in-Chief, Gen, Ike, with “tainted” assistances from all corners with murky personal lifestyle—the Americans public knew that he had political and magnetic leadership qualities and the Americans, like the Britishers, fully understand who has the God-gifted minds and talents to represent them at the world’s top most socio-political stage. Now, do we have that mindset, political ethics, loyalty and absolute trust to elect the right perso n(s) for the right job in India? Do our top political leaders have the right qualities for the right jobs or are there MP candidates who have the natural qualities and professional experiences to become the Indian Home, Defence and Foreign Ministers? Would there be a forgive-and-forget political principles to form a united Union Ministry with a patriotic sense of collective leadership in the next Govt of India ? Could there be a council of Ministers and MPs who have no high profile criminal records nor being booked under the NSA nor a day in a lock-up for openly committing a case of Felony? None, dare we presume, as of now and as in the past. The mighty law-makers just can’t be officially law-breakers in the past. The Nation needs a new “criminal-free” Government. Period.
Source: http://www.thesangaiexpress.com
.::. All my articles can be view here: MELTED HEARTS .::.
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“Remember, no men are strange, no countries foreign,
Beneath all uniforms, a single body breaths,
Like ours; the land our brothers walk upon
Is earth like this, in which we all shall lie.
“It is the human earth that we defile, Our hells of fire and dust outrage the innocence,
Of air that is everywhere our own, Remember, no men are foreign, and no countries strange.”
—James Kirkup
(No men are Foreign)
Beware of the Ides of March!! Well, the dangers of them all have began to come, all in the form of the 2009 MP General Election in most parts of the nation. It will stay that way till a new political King, the Queen and real Dauphine (Yuvraj) Rahul Gandhi are all put in the right place. Though the old age universal dictum, “Politics is the last refuge of a scoundrel” might not be applicable in general terms in these days but it does give an outward identities to some semiliterate or soft-spoken political leaders with multiple criminal records as thick as the Guidelines of the Election Commission and their volatile followers. While the world largest democracy rolls out its jaggernaut (Jagannath) in motion for the next “Aryan Parsean” dominated desi-Reich, some unlucky mothers’ sons and daughters would inevitably pay or “sacrificed” their lives and limbs at the cruel hands of politically-motivated armed criminals and even some trigger-happy security personnel in retaliatory or mob control firings. Needless to say, hundreds of armed extremists, mercenaries, terrorists and right-wing or misguided UG outfits would have a money-powered field days. As of now, for an otherwise coveted MP seat, and then onto the ultimate spell-binding PM’s Race Course Office, all the political top guns are oiling their automatic hunting rifles with the magnetic “Gandhi bank notes” instead of the pragmatic “Gandhian Principles of the State Policy” as practically advised in the Constitution of India. Politics has become more of a regulation 5 yrs term’s bloody war of attrition powered by murky sense of political and ethnical enmities, vision of needless revenge or vengeance just for the sake of sheer hatred, money, hollow-pride and an open show of muscle powers. We, the patriotic citizens of India, need to learn from the otherwise peaceful Anglo-American form of modern political rivalry, the honourable thumb’s up to the victors and chivalrous acceptance of painful defeat with full grace and hopeful future.
The recent US Presidential Election of 2008 - 09 had shown us to the fullest that general election and high-voltage politics could be conducted and exercised without killings, bombings, personal enmity, and ending with honourable handshakes. How many American Presidential party-workers and voters lost their lives and limbs or how many Constitutional actions were initiated during the campaigning, voting and vote-counting? Officially none, even atleast for hawk-eyes’ media boys. Yes, there were socio-political war of words and hostile show of statesmanship from the ticket campaigns (esp the Democrat party) even from the primary phase itself but things were strictly non-personal and hotly fought within civilised political ethics. Indeed, there might have been some inevitable anti-social activities, or even some acts of politically isolated violence, in the US Presidential and British General Elections, but they apparently did not merit a space or column in their national news media.
Tact and diplomacy are the two primary cogs in the golden wheel of political statesmanship which pull, at times push, a highly developed nation and great politico-military nation in all recorded socio-political generations. The recent surprising appointment of Senator Hillary Clinton (New York) as the Secretary of State by US President Barack Obama after being given a multiple bloody noses by the former First Lady in sharp battles for Democratic Presidential Election Ticket war which was won as narrowly upto the last primaries was a master stroke for the New Man in the White House’s Oval Office. President Obama, hard pressed as he was, knew the best person, tried and fully tested with first hand experiences for the job of the American “Home and Foreign Minister’s” post, ie. The Secretary of State, and thus, in comes Mrs Clinton.
President Obama has done a President Lincoln who appointed hostile Democrat leaders like the Secy of War W Stanton and, of course, the highly independent Secretary of Treasury who helped him won the American Civil War (1861-64) with a semi-retired and hard-drinking lowly Brig General named Ulysses Grant from wilderness to win the war. The much-detested Gen Grant went on to become a US President. Hundred years later, Gen Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower emulated President Grant by becoming a US President despite his much-maligned personal relationship with his war-time private secretary, namely Ms Kate Summersby, a war-widowed British general staff officer’s aide. Ten years later, Lt John F Kennedy replaced his former Commander-in-Chief, Gen, Ike, with “tainted” assistances from all corners with murky personal lifestyle—the Americans public knew that he had political and magnetic leadership qualities and the Americans, like the Britishers, fully understand who has the God-gifted minds and talents to represent them at the world’s top most socio-political stage. Now, do we have that mindset, political ethics, loyalty and absolute trust to elect the right perso n(s) for the right job in India? Do our top political leaders have the right qualities for the right jobs or are there MP candidates who have the natural qualities and professional experiences to become the Indian Home, Defence and Foreign Ministers? Would there be a forgive-and-forget political principles to form a united Union Ministry with a patriotic sense of collective leadership in the next Govt of India ? Could there be a council of Ministers and MPs who have no high profile criminal records nor being booked under the NSA nor a day in a lock-up for openly committing a case of Felony? None, dare we presume, as of now and as in the past. The mighty law-makers just can’t be officially law-breakers in the past. The Nation needs a new “criminal-free” Government. Period.
Source: http://www.thesangaiexpress.com
.::. All my articles can be view here: MELTED HEARTS .::.
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