Interesting aspect of human social behaviour.
You can get away with pretty much anything, if you have a large enough number of people to share the same belief as you.
EXAMPLE :
Various Christian groups around the world espousing and talking to angels and saints etc, who they believe to be around them. Since large groups believe this nobody dares question the sanity or the truth of this.
But if one single person [ you for example ], were to stand in a public place and claim that you can actually "see" one of these heavenly persons, you'd pretty much get locked away by the men in white coats. Why ? Because its only one person [ you ] who believes this.
So, TRUTH is true only as long as it is the belief held by a majority.
CUT TO GUJARAT -->
Our great political puppets, the CBI want to arrest AMIT SHAH the Home Minister for giving tacit approval to the Gujarat Police, in what is being termed a Fake encounter to kill some guy called SOHRABUDDIN SHEIKH.
3 important facts to consider here :
1) The Home Minster is responsible for the law and order as well as safety of the citizens against bad guys.
2) SOHRABUDDIN was a known criminal with a record of extortion etc; and some say even terror links.
3) The CBI is controlled by the centre [ read Congress ] while Gujarat is run by the BJP. [ Sounds familiar ? Yes, I thought so…. ]
Now our problem with the BELIEF SYSTEM lies here :
The Civil Rights activists & the CBI believe that our Police force should operate within the bounds of the law, which actually ends up making our country vulnerable to attacks. Especially since the bad guys don’t follow the same rules. They can pretty much blow up Bombay like AJMAL KASAB, who after 2 years gets tried, convicted, sentenced to hang by the Supreme Court and he has the cheek to STILL APPEAL !!
** Incredulous **
Now, on the other hand, our custodians of safety, the Police Force, believes Sohrabuddin is a bad guy deserving of death.
But perhaps, constrained as they are, they bump him off in an "encounter", as they know the judicial system will not deliver justice.
Now let me think….. Hmm…. Good guys bump off known bad guy…. this is a tough one ......
*ding!*
…...I know what we should do !!.... Lets arrest the good guy and somehow make him the bad guy !!
Lets get Amnesty International & other human rights groups and the media involved, lets put some spin on it. And lets raise divergent issues and lets make accusations and lets cast a doubt on what Amit Shah's motives may have been.
Soon the uninformed and mentally lazy public will all believe what we tell them and then we will reverse the imbalance between who believes who is a bad guy and who is good. [ "It must be true, I saw it on TV. Or It must be true I read it in the newspaper." ]
Wait, better still, lets make it out to be like he was the perpetrator and the real criminal was actually the victim. Yes, I think that’s what we'll do.
You can get away with pretty much anything, if you have a large enough number of people to share the same belief as you.
EXAMPLE :
Various Christian groups around the world espousing and talking to angels and saints etc, who they believe to be around them. Since large groups believe this nobody dares question the sanity or the truth of this.
But if one single person [ you for example ], were to stand in a public place and claim that you can actually "see" one of these heavenly persons, you'd pretty much get locked away by the men in white coats. Why ? Because its only one person [ you ] who believes this.
So, TRUTH is true only as long as it is the belief held by a majority.
CUT TO GUJARAT -->
Our great political puppets, the CBI want to arrest AMIT SHAH the Home Minister for giving tacit approval to the Gujarat Police, in what is being termed a Fake encounter to kill some guy called SOHRABUDDIN SHEIKH.
3 important facts to consider here :
1) The Home Minster is responsible for the law and order as well as safety of the citizens against bad guys.
2) SOHRABUDDIN was a known criminal with a record of extortion etc; and some say even terror links.
3) The CBI is controlled by the centre [ read Congress ] while Gujarat is run by the BJP. [ Sounds familiar ? Yes, I thought so…. ]
Now our problem with the BELIEF SYSTEM lies here :
The Civil Rights activists & the CBI believe that our Police force should operate within the bounds of the law, which actually ends up making our country vulnerable to attacks. Especially since the bad guys don’t follow the same rules. They can pretty much blow up Bombay like AJMAL KASAB, who after 2 years gets tried, convicted, sentenced to hang by the Supreme Court and he has the cheek to STILL APPEAL !!
** Incredulous **
Now, on the other hand, our custodians of safety, the Police Force, believes Sohrabuddin is a bad guy deserving of death.
But perhaps, constrained as they are, they bump him off in an "encounter", as they know the judicial system will not deliver justice.
Now let me think….. Hmm…. Good guys bump off known bad guy…. this is a tough one ......
*ding!*
…...I know what we should do !!.... Lets arrest the good guy and somehow make him the bad guy !!
Lets get Amnesty International & other human rights groups and the media involved, lets put some spin on it. And lets raise divergent issues and lets make accusations and lets cast a doubt on what Amit Shah's motives may have been.
Soon the uninformed and mentally lazy public will all believe what we tell them and then we will reverse the imbalance between who believes who is a bad guy and who is good. [ "It must be true, I saw it on TV. Or It must be true I read it in the newspaper." ]
Wait, better still, lets make it out to be like he was the perpetrator and the real criminal was actually the victim. Yes, I think that’s what we'll do.
