Finally, Manmohan Speaks – Only To Mislead Public Opinion. But Does Anyone TRUST Him Anymore?

Surely shaken out of his "paralysis" by a WaPo article calling him a “dithering bureaucrat” – and also by this subsequent ToI editorial, itself a response to his government’s “protest” to WaPo, in which it was made clear that:

Government's response to media criticism reveals its disconnect with rising tide of citizen discontent

So, prime minister Manmohan Singh awoke - and spoke thus:

 “Social media and the Open Sea are India’s 

greatest security threats today.”

I will discuss what his government is doing with the Internet and mobile telephony shortly. 

Let me first talk about the Open Sea.

First: Pax Britannica did not get to “rule the waves” by military force. Indeed, the Royal Navy required “press gangs” till fairly recently in order to actually “kidnap” able-bodied men and force them to work on their gunships. It was British merchant shipping that built the British Empire and ruled the waves. These merchant ships EXPORTED British GOLD and IMPORTED spices, tobacco, cotton, sugar, tea….

Second: Here is a glimpse of modern, coastal India. TWO former CONgress chief ministers of GOA are facing criminal prosecution for their involvement in illegal iron ore mining, and even some central ministries are going to get into trouble.

“Foreign trade” in Goa means, “Export iron ore, import nothing.”

There is a Coast Guard – protecting sand.

And, let us never forget, there is the Coastal Zone Regulation Act, which comes from a Parliament in Delhi, 2500 miles away from either coast, which also aims at protecting sand – and rocks, and coconut trees, too. 

Oh! I forgot casuarinas – they’re protecting them as well.

But the lovely hills to the west – they are out of bounds for any “human settlement,” by legislation that “protects” them.

These are the “collective properties” that are being dug up and effectively destroyed. 

This, while the beaches, and the towns, are all OVERCROWDED.

Third: Our socialist The State is going ahead with another “land acquisition” that is causing GREAT PUBLIC DISORDER.

Interestingly, this land is being forcibly taken (which is RAPE) in order to set up a “knowledge hub” that includes a LAW COLLEGE!

The National University of Study and Research in Law (NUSRL).

We have a socialist lawyer as Education Minister, and another as Police Minister (till a few weeks ago).

The latter recently made a public statement to the effect that the armed rebels of our jungles are “India’s greatest security threat” – while “official statistics” confirmed that over 1000 of us are dying on the roads every single day, in CITIES AND TOWNS.

In all this, the socialist Supreme Court’s chief justice has been babbling on and on about a “fundamental right to sleep”!

Of course, the monopolistic socialist judiciary has its cheerleaders – like Swaminathan Aiyar in his latest column. Note that it took them over 10 years to convict these BJP-type Hindoos pursuing the "ugly vote motive" who were accused of pogroms against innocent Muslims – and everything was “politicized” from beginning to end. 

This is because the monopolist socialist judiciary, and the police, as also the prosecution, are all “organized into bureaucratic hierarchies” – by which socialists at the very top seek Universal Subordination. 

NOT EQUALITY!

So, beware.

Individualism.

Private Property.

Consensual Trades By Land, Sea, and Air.

Voluntarism.

Private Law.

These are the sources of order.

Let us now turn to the “social media”: There is an interview in the ToI of today with Christopher Soghian, an expert on policy issues related to the Internet. Do read it in full if you value freedom and anonymity in this area, for it is titled, "I'll not trust Facebook with my personal data."

Soghian's testimony of his Indian experience over long years makes it evident that the Indian Police are taking over this vital freedom – in order to “protect the State” by snooping and spying on the citizenry. 

If there is already so much “growing surveillance” on the Internet, and on mobile phone usage as well, what is the prime minister’s take on our “security threats” but TWO HOAX CALLS.

However, he is supposedly an “eminent economist,” so let us now turn to the area of his “expertise”:

First: This extract from his speech at Rio makes it abundantly clear that he was unaware that the ECONOMY WAS OVERHEATING – while he was fully aware that the whole planet was overheating!

Like other countries, we too allowed the fiscal deficit to expand after 2008 to impart a stimulus. We are now focussing on reversing the expansion.

Second: All that he has confessed to above has occurred because he is a welfarist-inflationist. Of course, he needs his “compulsory education” to keep this game going on and on forever.

Third: The price of gold today (despite taxes and customs duties) illustrates that all these years of talking the Bombay Stock Exchange Index up and down – this “obsession” with a stock exchange as being “The Market” – has been nothing but another attempt to mislead public opinion as to what exactly good economic health is all about.

I shall leave aside all the ugly corruption: Coal, Iron Ore, 2G, CWG, the State-owned banks that require “recapitalisation,” and the “public investment” just made in new planes for Air-India.

Recommended reading:

My old post on Manmohan Singh titled, “The Smooth Face Of Evil.”