Mass Fine? Is Memory So Short?
By Moderator, India Thinkers Net Group
05 August, 2003
The soul of Hitler lives in the hearts and brains of the Hindtuva
fascists.This,at least is the impression that one gets hearing
the demand of the self-proclaimed 'intellectual' and 'hindutva
idealogue' P Parameswaran of the Bharateeya Vichara Kendram,
an RSS outfit. Parameswaran demanded that the 'community
allegedly responsible for the killing of nine persons' at Marad
in Kerala be subjected to a 'mass fine'.What more,the hindutva idealogue wants the amount so
collected to be utilised for giving compensation to the violent
acts there.He also clarified that those who had been forced
to flee the Marad area (following a post-Godhra type
actions on the part of the Sangh Parivar) must be 'rehabilitated'
but.... 'at a distance'..'in some other place in the coastal area' !
The VHP all India vice-president presided over the function
where Parameswaran made his vitriolic speech.
One is not sure of what century Parameswaran lives in.He forgets
that India is a republic with Constitution and the rule of law.
He incriminates a whole community,as had his brothers done
in Gujarat.He has passed the judgment even before the
investigations have begun.
One is remined of the scenes in Hitler's Germany where the
Jews were persecuted for allegedly destroying the nation's
economy.The actions of a handful of criminals in what are
believed to be part of the ongoing revenge killings are
branded as the mass crime by a whole community.
The rounding up of the Jews and dumping them in the ghettos
were fondly called 'rehabilitation' by Hitler.Of course,
these pollutants needed to be rehabilitated 'at a distance'.
Parameswaran ought to have extended his dictum to the
Hindutva terrorists of Gujarat as well.Mass fine can be
imposed in that state as an example or a pilot project.
It appears that for Parameswaran and his clan of saffronites,
jurisprudence is not what the Indian state has ordained.
This is so because ,one is yet to understand which law in
modern India talks of 'mass fine' or fine for people having
no connection with a particular offence.Here the punishment
is based on a 'supposition' and 'pre-conceived notion' about
the 'criminality of a group of people'. Further this criminality
is based on 'religion beliefs' and not on any other factor,
including any actual participation or knowledge of the crime.
Parameswaran is indulging in pseudo-intellectual terrorism.
He accuses a class of people merely becasuse of their faith.
This is part of a larger game plan whereby the whole
community is branded as criminal and therefore hated.
It is indeed a terrible precedent even to make such suggestions.
No man with ordinary prudence or sense would talk in
similar terms in a democracy.If people of the world were
to deal with communities for the actions of individuals,
then it would be chaos. The so called hindutva idealogue
does not know that the times are not the dark ages and
today only individuals are held accountable for their actions.
The spirit of communal retribution has probably been
injected in the sakhas and baitaks.This kind of archaic and
tribalist mentality is what is reflected in the statements of
Parameswaran.
One wonders what kind of awards must be given to such
legal luminaries and idealogues who craft the jurispridence
for the Hindu Rashtra.