Social Discipline and Crime Control

Social Discipline and Crime: 

The issue of the lack of social discipline and the growing criminal tendencies cannot be ignored any longer. The growing criminal activity is a direct result of socio-economic-political factors and can be attributed to a succession of weak governments and an even weaker and inappropriate legal structure. 

Criminality is on the rise, simply because the mechanism of law and order and prosecution of crime is both inadequate and slow in its process. This problem can only be tackled by a complete overhaul of our legal system and its mechanisms. While legal luminaries in India could give much better advise on the changes required in our legal system, the basic requirement is making the courts more people friendly and efficient. 

It is strongly believed that a ‘jury’ system will not only ensure a fair trial for the accused, but will also ease the strain that is put upon the judges as they singularly tackle a ever increasing work load. 

A social code of conduct is required on an immediate basis that not only prescribes the way that the individuals should conduct themselves in public places, but would also emphasize the manner in which social groups have to conduct themselves as a whole. This code of conduct, strictly enforced, will definitely reduce the social crimes that afflict the majority of our people today. This will not, in any form or manner, impinge upon the individual’s right to privacy, but will help in streamlining social interaction amongst the people. 

Social code of conduct would cover the areas of noise pollution, cleanliness in the streets and in municipal wards, ease of removal of garbage, prohibit the misuse of public areas as open air urinals and latrines, prohibit the use of public areas as spittoons, and allow for a smooth and easier use of public facilities like footpaths and foot bridges. 

The removal of footpath vendors would be a prime concern towards a better and safer use of footpaths, as would be the redesigning of the pubic facilities for use by handicapped persons. Most of the social issues in our nation today can be attributed to a weak mechanism for prosecution of crime. Criminality has been glorified as a medium of social change, but this in fact has proven (by recent events in Maharashtra and Karnataka) to be precursor in organized crime involving all strata of society and the bureaucracy. 

Crime prosecution figures are as varied as the groups that poll these figures. But, the perception amongst the general population is that much of the criminal activity is unchallenged by the government; thereby reinforcing in the mind of both the people and the criminals that the rule of the law is weak and impotent. The suggestions for improving the current situation is as follows: 

 a) The deployment on a crisis basis of Citizens Identity Cards. 

b) Upgrading of the police and law enforcement departments with modern machinery to track and investigate crime and persons associated with criminal activities. 

c) Sharing of criminal files amongst city, state and central law enforcement agencies on a real time basis to ensure a free flow of information for prevention of crime. 

d) A stronger and affirmative legal structure that allows for a faster prosecution of criminals. 

e) A hard labor based punishment policy for criminals that allow the society to utilize the physical and mental talents of convicted criminals. 

f) A provision under law to appropriate and sell assets of economic and serious crime offenders, in order to confiscate illegal earning and return them to the government treasury, which in turn will self-finance the criminal prosecution efforts. 

g) The restoration of the death penalty for heinous crimes. It has been proved in societies around the globe and over periods of time that a successful and strong nation is always the result of the strength of character and discipline among its individual citizens.

 

 

Is the Hindu Samaj Dead ?

 

April 2009

 The Hindu Samaj: Dead and Gone? 

Today as the nation enters the 2nd phase of the 2009 general elections, we are faced with a growing gap between democracy and on the ground politics. While the elections are being held to allow the people to vote into the Parliament their own chosen candidate; the reality is that each section of the people is pushing into the electoral field their choice of candidate based on caste, creed and religion. 

Political speeches are aimed at and focused prominently upon the caste factor or the religious affinity of the electorate towards its candidates. Hindu and Muslim politicians are focusing on their religious vote banks to get to the seat of power; while using words like democratic process and secularism to try and get the fringe votes from those voters who are either ignorant or totally unconcerned about the value of their each single vote. 

The deep divides in the Hindu Samaj of our country is confusing. Hindus are either unaware of the danger to the Hindu Samaj (Polity) from both the Christians & Muslims; or the Hindus do not care if India again becomes a country ruled either by the Muslims (as it was by the Mughals) or by the Westerners (as it was by the British). Hindus are today divided in thought, speech and action. 

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) is dormant. The VHP has not undertaken any effort to spread the Hindu philosophy or culture to the young of India. The leadership of the VHP must understand that if they do not modify their efforts to attract the attention of the youngsters, the VHP will be soon totally redundant and will vanish into history. Those of the VHP who think that this cannot happen must remember that the ‘Abhinav Bharat’ movement started by Veer Savarkar is today non-existent. Organizations die when they are not flexible towards changing times and change in attitudes. 

The other ‘Hindutva’ organization, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is in utter confusion. All Indians know that L.K. Advani is focused on becoming the Prime Minister of India after the 2009 elections. Most Indian people know that Advani will fail miserably in this self-seeking goal. BJP seems to be divided into camps; each having their own agenda. Advani is pushing himself as the strong leader, the ‘Loh Purush’ of India, the man of vision and resolve, with Rajnath Singh hanging desperately to his coat-tails. The others of the BJP are mostly busy criticizing the Congress (Sonia Miano Gandhi) party and their former allies. It is apparent to the entire nation that the BJP comes across as a party of people who complain and whine. 

The only sane and stable person in the BJP is Narendra Modi, whose speeches are focused on development and economic growth. Modi is a man who has delivered growth to the people of Gujarat; so his speeches carry the strength of authenticity and pride. But one Modi cannot make an entire BJP, not at least in the current election. 

The third ‘Hindutva’ organization is the Shiv Sena. Regardless of the fact that the Shiv Sena has not been able to achieve a national victory in any election; this is the single party who under the leadership of Balasaheb Thakrey has always maintained a singular political agenda and a strong focus on Hindu Pride. However, the party has never been able to expand beyond the confines of Maharashtra

The issue in a nut-shell is that Hindu Rashtra (Polity) is a divided community. Hindus are focused on caste and regionalism rather than on being only ‘Hindus’. Given this divide, the Hindu political vote in the city casts his ballot on the basis of foreign political philosophy (Communism; as can be seen in Bengal and Kerala) or on the basis of secularism (those who vote for Congress). Other Hindus are so divided on the basis of caste that they either have their own regional parties or they are outside the electoral process because they are totally disgusted with the current politics. 

If India has to survive as a strong democracy, where every person has equal rights and equal freedom of thought, speech & action; then India must be reinforced by Hindustan. The Hindu community must be persuaded to unite under one political philosophy and under one political organization so that the dangers that our nation faces will be tackled correctly and comprehensively. 

It should be the duty (dharma) of each Hindu to be an active part of the Indian political process. Whether as a tutor spreading the knowledge of Hinduism & Hindutva or as a student absorbing this knowledge, each Hindu has to take on the right to question the Government of India; constantly and daily on every issue. It is only when the Government is answerable on a daily basis to over 700 million of its Hindu population; that is when we will have a government that functions for the people. 

Let us all Hindus unite to form a nation – united under one philosophy and one flag that will provide India with a Government “Of the people; By the people & For the People”.

PROCLAMATION TO THE INDIAN NATION

 

 PROCLAMATION TO THE INDIAN NATION April, 2009 

MANY years have passed in our country where the Indian people, blinded by promises by politicians at home and abroad, lost touch with honor and freedom, thereby losing almost everything. In these days of treachery, the Almighty God has withheld his blessing from our people. Dissension and hatred has descended upon us. With profound distress millions of the best Indian men and women from all walks of life have seen the unity of the nation vanishing away, dissolving in a confusion of political and personal opinions, economic interests, and ideological differences. 

In these days, as so often in the past, India has presented a picture of heartbreaking disunity. We never received the equality and fraternity we had been promised, and we lost our liberty day-after-day. For when our nation has lost its political focus in the world, it soon loses its unity of spirit and will-power. We are firmly convinced that the Indian nation entered the fight for freedom and filled only with the desire to liberate the Motherland which had been occupied and to gain the freedom; the very existence, of the Indian people. 

This being so, we can only see in the disastrous fate which has overtaken us since those days of 1947; the result of the collapse of our political principles at home. But the rest of the world, too, has suffered no less since then from overwhelming crises. The balance of power which had evolved in the course of history, and which formerly played no small part in bringing about the understanding of the necessity for an internal strength of the nations, with all its advantages for trade and commerce, has been set on one side. 

The insane conception of political victory at any cost has destroyed the confidence existing between the people and the government, and, at the same time, the industry of the entire Nation. The misery of our people is horrible! Millions of trained workers are unemployed and starving; the whole of the middle class and the small artisans are impoverished. When this collapse finally reaches all the Indian farmers, we will be faced with an immeasurable disaster. For then not only shall a nation collapse, but a ten-thousand-year-old inheritance, some of the loftiest products of human culture and civilization will also be lost. All about us the warning signs of this collapse are apparent. 

Socialism, with its method of madness is making a powerful and insidious attack upon our dismayed and shattered nation. It seeks to poison and disrupt in order to hurl our society into complete chaos. This negative, destroying spirit spares nothing of all that is highest and most valuable. Beginning with the family, it has undermined the very foundations of morality and faith and scoffs at culture and business, nation and Matrubhoomi, justice and honor. 

Years of Socialism have ruined India; one year of a Socialist- Communist- Opportunist combination will destroy our Nation. The richest and most beautiful land of the world would be turned into a heap of ruins. Even the sufferings of the last decade and a half could not be compared to the misery of our nation in the heart of which the various flags of destruction will be hoisted. The thousands of wounded, the hundreds of dead that has already cost India should be a warning of the destructive storm which will come. 

In these hours, when our hearts are troubled about the life and the future of the Indian nation, the youth of the Nation are appealing to us. They call to those of us in nationalist parties and social organizations to struggle once more, in unity and loyalty, for the salvation of the Indian nation. This time the fight is in our home. And as leaders of the nation and the national government we must vow to God, to our conscience, and to our people that we will faithfully and resolutely fulfill the task conferred upon us. The inheritance which has fallen to us is a terrible one. The task with which we are faced is the hardest which has fallen to Indian leaders within the memory of this generation. 

But we are all filled with unbounded confidence for we believe in our people and our cultural virtues. Every class and every individual must help us to form the nation of Hindustan. Our National Government must regard it as it’s first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and co-operation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It must regard Nationalism as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life. 

Turbulent self interests must be replaced by a national discipline as the guiding principle of our social and civil life. All those institutions which are the strongholds of the energy and vitality of our nation must be taken under the special care of our Government. The National Government should intend to solve the problem of the reorganization of the Nation with two five-year plans: The Indian farmer must be rescued in order that the nation may be supplied with the necessities of life. A concerted and all-embracing focus must be made on developing the industry so that unemployment is reduced and the Indian working class saved from ruin. 

In the last 20 years our politicians have created an army of millions of unemployed. The National Government must, with iron determination and unshakable steadfastness of purpose, put through the following plan: 

1) Full benefits to the farmers by supply of power, water resources, market rates for the farm products and infrastructure development. 

2) Fast track approvals for small and medium business enterprises (SME), using the one- window theory of administration. 

3) Tax holidays of 10 years to SME in rural zones. 

4) Zero customs duty for import of plant & machinery for manufacturing. 

5) Compulsory labor-service and the back-to-the-land policy should be two of the basic principles of this program. 

6) The securing of the necessities of life will include the performance of social duties to the sick, the aged and the handicapped. 

In an economical administration, with the promotion of employment, the preservation of the farms, as well as in the sponsoring of individual initiative, we see the best guarantee for a stable currency in our Nation. As regards its foreign policy we must consider it our highest duty to secure the right to live without fear and the restoration of full freedom to our people. 

Our determination to bring to an end the chaotic state of affairs in India will assist in the restoration to the community of equal value and, above all, a State which must grant equal rights to all. May the good will of others assist us in this fulfillment of this our earnest wish for the welfare of India. 

If, however, India is to experience this political and economic revival and conscientiously fulfill her duties toward the other nations, one decisive step is absolutely necessary first: the overcoming of the destroying menace of Socialism in India. 

We must understand the responsibility of the people for the restoration of orderly life in our nation and for the elimination of class madness and class struggle. We must recognize no classes, we must see only the Indian people; millions of farmers, workers, and entrepreneurs who will either overcome together the difficulties of these times or be overcome by disasters of Time. 

We must be firmly resolved and we must take this as our oath. Since the present Government is incapable of lending support to this work, we ask the Indian people to perform the task themselves. Unity is our tool. Therefore we now appeal to the Indian people to support this reconciliation. 

Our Nation’s people wish to work and they will work. We must be determined to make well in five years the ills of many years. But this work of reconstruction cannot be dependent upon the approval of those who created destruction. The Socialist - Marxist parties and their lackeys have had many years to show what they can do. The result is a ruin of our Nation. 

Now, people of India, give yourself five years and then pass judgment upon this Nation. In accordance with our “dharma” we must begin now. May God Almighty give our work His blessing and strengthen our purpose, and endow us with wisdom and the trust of our people, for we are fighting not for ourselves but for India.

Jai Hind.