Monday, September 15, 2008

Finally found someone to match my thought process

Sunday was a day meant for sleeping and sleeping only... but no some of us had a (or rather two) films to catch. First up was "Wall.E" at 10:30 in the morning... yeah you read it right. we got up at 10 to go to the movies...

It actually was a “reado” (reading analogy of typo) by us. The website said 10:30 and we didn’t look any further. It actually was AM (those people should use military timings) no one would ever confuse 2030 with anything as 1030. Anyway “Wall.E” was a big disappointment, honestly I expected better from Pixar.

But cut to the next movie “The Wednesday” and I seriously admire the creator. This is exactly the way things should be. We catch the terrorists only to release them later when some AssHole (pardon the language) captures 189 people and demands their release (remember Kandahar and flight IC-814).

What did we learn from the whole goddamn drama… nothing I guess! We just moved on, what a pity!

We caught “Maulana Masood Azhar”, “Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar” and “Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh” and for what? Kept them in prison for lot of time and feeding them all this time on the tax paid by us (WTF, I want to kill all the politicians for this act only), then released them when the terrorists held passengers of IC 814 hostage. So in essence we released those three terrorists for protecting 189 hostages and a plane. Did no one realize that those three terrorists out in the open might kill few thousands and damage property worth more than an airplane?

Let’s weigh the pros and cons in the current version

  • Pros
    • Passengers safe
    • Plane safe
  • Cons
    • Three known terrorists at large
      • Will kill more than the 189 people in all probability
      • Will destroy property worth more than one “Airbus 300” in the aforementioned act
    • Loss of Spine for India

Maybe no one was able to prove that the aforementioned three people really were terrorists before the hijack but after the hijack was there any need for the proof?

The version I would have liked better:

  • Take all three to Kandahar and approach the plane
  • Execute them then and there
  • Storm the plane

Max losses

  • The passengers
  • The plane

Max benefits

  • Passengers
  • Plane
  • No threat from at least those three terrorists and the hijackers.
  • Strong message to the would-be hijackers.

But this is me, and I think different. But then I ask this simple question, why do we keep people in jail when they have been proven guilty? Why provide them with food and medical supplies when there are people in the country who can’t get enough to survive? Why build jails worth crores, each cell costing multiple millions to build and maintain when a bullet costs 50 odd bucks and cremation another 1000 bucks? Why even cremate them, kill them, chop them and feed to them to the dwindling lion population; after all they (lions) deserve more then what they usually get?

Naseeruddin Shah’s character does exactly this. Kill them off. Government will never do it; they lack the spine and the mental makeup that requires this. Kudos to “Neeraj Pandey” for making this movie. Thanks.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

military timing huh....get your compass correct....you wud have missed this one.

BTW, I am sort of unsure about the philosophy of killing for being proven guilty.
Probably you only meant to make capital punishment lenient and un-forgivable. The Center should not linger the execution (like they are doing for the guy who bombed the Parliament).
But your tone felt otherwise. Were you saying kill anyone who is proven guilty? Are we trying to say that we want to inculcate discipline by fear? Won't that mean that I would be tempted to break the law (just get out unescaped) and feel happy about it. Something that I might then boast.
Moreover, there can be(and usually is) a big difference about proving something and the facts. Would this way of punishing cater to those people as well? Check out Life of David Gale and I hope that makes your feeling a little more gentle.