Amnesia or Denial?

The peasants are rejoicing once again. The great saviours of the past and present are all here now.

The most recent saviour has had to give up his magic wand and is not the master wizard anymore. But before he took that drastic step, only in order to perpetuate his self proclaimed status, he has built a wall around him. And thinks, wrongly, that making himself legitimate and giving himself powers, will secure his position. What he doesn't realize is that this will only force his opponents to resort to something above and beyond the legal framework. Something he should know, since he has been doing the same.

In the meanwhile, two new old saviours have arrived. Claiming persecution and unfair play, they want to convince people that the very things they helped destroy, are the things that they want to save. The not so newly hirsute caliph-wannabe had his party storm the supreme court. There was no freedom of the media. The progeny of the east appointed hand picked judges and does not and can not stand any dissent from anywhere. Chairperson for life, that is what her title is. And these clowns are now the champions of democracy?

I am not a fan of the great wizard. And I still don't think he will amount to much. What I am concerned with is that how people are eagerly lapping up the hogwash dished out by all. Are we in denial? Or do we suffer from memory loss? Have we forgotten how we have rejoiced every time someone gets kicked off the throne?

As I have concluded earlier, this is a big farce being played out for public consumption at large. In other parts of the country, the army is killing as many militants in Swat as NATO forces are in Afghanistan. TWAT (The War Against Terrorism) rages on. Some people say that the situation is no different than East Pakistan. There is no solution but brute force. I wish I knew the answer. When the state is incapable of enforcing its writ, or ignores the flouting of law, for its own vested interest, it has to come to a boil. How is this different from Kashmir? Where we say the locals are not allowed to live the way they want to and the state is using force to quell their discontent. Where does one draw the line?

There are more questions than there are answers. No short term solutions here. Long terms solutions require people with vision and the courage of their convictions. Our saviours have none of those things. So maybe this numbing of senses or self induced amnesia is the only way out.