If the government wants you picked up and thrashed, you will be picked up and thrashed. Legally. If the government wants you in jail, you will end up in jail. Legally. If the government wants to make your life miserable one way or the other, it will. Legally. There is a certain social sickness imbedded in this form of governance; a sickness sanctioned by law and justified by precedence: This is Pakistan, and this is how the system works here. Baloney. Six decades of pure rot is enough. Six decades of exploitation, manipulation and suppression is enough. Six decades of abusing power and privilege is enough. Something, somewhere has got to change. This something is right here, in front of our eyes, looking straight at us, pleading, and begging. Look at the police beating people mercilessly in thanas; look at the endless line of citizens crying for justice in kachehries; look at the semi-naked children begging for morsels on the roadside; look at the nauseating arrogance of midgets growing fat on taxpayer money; look at the elected aristocrats twirling their moustaches and licking their lips while you grovel for your rights; look at the misery of life you have been served by those entrusted with State power — a life that ravages you in hospitals, lacerates you in courts; whips you in government offices and flays you on the streets. It is a life built around laws that chain; norms that stifle; traditions that crush.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 17:32:04 +0000
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