[Reader-list] Sonia’s presence in Delhi is costing India dearly

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who is this Francois?

On 02-Dec-08, at 2:28 PM, Aditya Raj Kaul wrote:

> Sonia's presence in Delhi is costing India dearly
> François Gautier - Indian Express
> <http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/searchresult.aspx?AliasName=9Sz/qRu/YvAhRnVbCZ/zGymsmOnOa/2e 
> >
> First Published : 02 Dec 2008 02:37:00 AM IST
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> Link -
> http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Sonia%E2%80%99s+presence+in+Delhi+is+costing+India+dearly&artid=LNnjswClsuc=&SectionID=vBlkz7JCFvA=&MainSectionID=fyV9T2jIa4A=&SectionName=m3GntEw72ik=&SEO=Emile,+Zola,+Manmohan,+Singh,Sonia,+Gandhi,+Saudi
> ,
>
> 1898, the French writer Emile Zola wrote an open letter to the then  
> French
> president in the newspaper L'Aurore, titled j'accuse ('I accuse'),  
> where he
> accused the French government of anti- Semitism towards Captain Alfred
> Dreyfus, a Jewish officer unfairly condemned for treason.
>
> Now it is time for the people of India to say openly that which many,
> including within the Congress, think secretly and may utter in the  
> privacy
> of their chambers.
>
> It is not about Manmohan Singh, it is not even about Shivraj Patil,  
> the fall
> guy; it is about that one person, the Eminence Grise of India. She  
> who pulls
> all the strings, She whose shadow looms menacingly over so many, She  
> who
> holds no portfolio, is just a simple elected MP, like 540 others,  
> but rules
> like an empress.
>
> Sometimes, one's very physical presence at the top is enough to move  
> things,
> to influence the course of events. One word from Her, a glance, a  
> frown, are
> enough to put the whole heavy, inert, unwilling machinery of India's
> bureaucracy and political system in full motion. Sometimes She need  
> not say
> anything: in the true tradition of Bhakti, Her ministers, Her  
> secretaries,
> interpret Her silences and rush to cater to Her western and Christian
> identity.
>
> Nevertheless, she has said and acted enough so that one day she may  
> stand
> accused on the pages of History for what she must have done to India.
>
> I'accuse Sonia Gandhi as being responsible for the tragedy of  
> Mumbai, having
> emasculated India's intelligence agencies by stopping them from
> investigating terror attacks in the last four years, including the  
> Mumbai
> train blasts. She has also neutralised the ATS by ordering them at  
> all costs
> to ferret out 'Hindu terrorism', which if it exists, has wrought  
> minuscule
> damage compared to what Islamic terror has done since 2004. Did the  
> US send
> a warning to India that there may be an attack on Mumbai and that  
> the Taj
> would be one of the targets? Were these ignored because the ATS was  
> too busy
> chasing Hindu 'terrorists' on Sonia's orders? I accuse Sonia and her
> government of having made the NSG the laughing stock of the world.  
> How many
> times did the NSG (who took ten hours to reach Mumbai) claim that it  
> had
> "sanitised the Taj and that the operation was over" and how many  
> times did a
> bomb go off immediately after? For the last 20 years, the NSG has  
> guarded
> VIPs and has become soft. See the comments of Israeli terror  
> specialists,
> who said the NSG should have first sanitised the immediate  
> surroundings of
> the places of conflict, kept the bystanders and press (who gave  
> terrorists
> watching TV in the Taj rooms a perfect report of the security forces'
> whereabouts) out of the place, gathered enough information about the
> position of the terrorists and hostages before taking action,  
> instead of
> immediately engaging the terrorists, and ensuring the deaths of so  
> many
> hostages.
>
> I accuse Sonia of having let her Christian and Western background,  
> in four
> years, divide India on religious and caste lines in a cynical and  
> methodical
> manner.
>
> I accuse Sonia of weakening India's spirit of sacrifice and courage,  
> so that
> 20 terrorists (or less) held at ransom the financial capital of  
> India for
> more than three days.
>
> I accuse Sonia Gandhi of always pointing the finger at Pakistan, when
> terrorism in India is now mostly homegrown, even if it takes help,  
> training,
> refuge and arms from Pakistan; of not warning Indians of the grave  
> dangers
> of Islamic terror for cynical election purposes.
>
> I accuse Sonia of being an enemy of the Hindus, who always gave  
> refuge to
> persecuted minorities, and who are the only people in the world to  
> accept
> that God may manifest under different names, in different epochs,  
> using
> different scriptures.
>
> I accuse Sonia Gandhi of taking advantage of India's respect for  
> women, its
> undue fascination with the Gandhi name, and its stupid mania for  
> White Skin.
>
> I'accuse Sonia of exploiting the Indian Press' obsession with her. She
> hardly ever gave interview in 20 years, except scripted ones to  
> NDTV, yet
> the Press always protects her, never blames her and keeps silent  
> over her
> covert role.
>
> I'accuse Sonia and her government of trying to make heroes of  
> subservient
> and inefficient men to hide the humiliation of Mumbai 26/11. Before  
> going to
> his death, Hemant Karkare, the ATS chief, was shown on television  
> clumsily
> handling his helmet, as someone who uses it very rarely. Why did he  
> die of
> bullet wounds in the chest when he was wearing a bullet-proof vest?  
> Either
> Indian vests are inferior quality or he was not wearing one.
>
> How did the terrorists who killed him and his fellow officer escape  
> in the
> same vehicle used by the ATS chief ? Why did he and his officers go  
> into
> Cama Hospital without ascertaining where the terrorists were? We  
> honour his
> death, but these facts say a lot about the ATS' battle-readiness.
>
> Will someone in the Congress, someone who feels more Indian than  
> faithful to
> Sonia, stand up and speak the truth? Who said, "Go after Hindu  
> terrorists"?
> Who insisted on putting pressure on BJP governments in Karnataka or  
> Orissa
> for so-called persecution of Christians, when Christians have always
> practised their faith in total freedom here, while their  
> missionaries are
> converting hundreds of thousands of innocent tribals and Dalits with  
> the
> billions of dollars given by gullible westerners? Who said, "Go soft  
> on
> Islamic terrorism"? Who wants to do away with India's nuclear  
> deterrence in
> the face of Pakistani and Chinese nuclear threats, by pushing at all  
> costs
> the one sided Indo-US nuclear deal, which makes no secret of its  
> intention
> to denuclearise India militarily? I am sure Sonia Gandhi has good  
> qualities:
> she probably was a good wife to Rajiv, a good daughter in law to  
> Indira and
> by all accounts, she is a good mother to her children. One also hears
> first-hand reports about her concern for smaller people, her dignity  
> in the
> suffering that befell her when her husband was blown to pieces, and  
> her
> courtesy with visitors.
>
> Nevertheless, she is a danger to India.
>
> Her very presence, both physical and occult, open the doors to forces
> inimical to India. Even Indian Christians should understand that she  
> is not
> a gift to them: her presence at the top has emboldened fanatics like  
> John
> Dayal or Valson Thampu, who practise an orthodox Christianity  
> prevalent in
> the West in the early 20th century, but no longer, to radicalise their
> flock. Indian Christians should recognise that they have a much  
> better deal
> here than Christians or Hindus have in Pakistan, Bangladesh,  
> Indonesia or
> Saudi Arabia.
>
> Under Sonia's rule, Indian Muslims, too, have been used as electoral  
> pawns.
> They have been encouraged to shun the Sufi streak, a blend of the  
> best of
> Islam and Vedanta, for a hard-line Sunni brand imported from Saudi  
> Arabia,
> Pakistan and Afghanistan.
>
> For the good of India, her civilisation, her immense spirituality and
> culture, Sonia Gandhi has to go and a government that thinks Indian,
> breathes nationalism and will protect its citizens must be voted to  
> power.
>
> *— fgautier at auroville.org.in*
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