WHITE MANS BURDEN 

The Quixotic "Charge of the Light Brigade" in Iraq 

The Peloponnesian Perpetual Mimitic warfare in Afghanistan

is spreading the Orwellian "1984" in America 

and "Brazil" in Pakistan & Iran, the Middle East, South America and the Central Asia

By

Moin Ansari

A "Free Press" gets is wrong? How could the $80 Billion American think-tank industry get it all wrong in Iraq, and Afghanistan? How could both political parties get caught up in endless political "cul de sacs" and be clueless? Thomas Kuhn explains it as being incarcerated in the wrong paradigm. Kuhn  describes it as "believing in the wrong framework" which is setup by vested interests. Military experts and Business leaders caught up in a tsunami of the same "esoteric intellectual straight-jacket" mimic each other's inscribed opinions to such an extent that they simply become burlesque parodies of each others.

..many conservatives have come to the conclusion that the only way they can save America and get if off its present downslope is to become a regime with a greater military presence and drive toward empire. My fear is that Americans might lose their democracy in the process.

" ... Iraq is the excuse for moving in an imperial direction. War with Iraq, as they originally conceived it, would be a quick, dramatic step that would enable them to control the Near East as a powerful base - not least because of the oil there, as well as the water supplies from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers - to build a world empire."Norman Mailer

 When the intellectual capital of the comedian Jon Stewart begins to dwarf the combined consonance of our febrile intellectual elite, our president, our congress and our cerebral leaders should know that, something is very wrong. Our public has figured it out. Polls show that America knows the truth. Our nation facing mass vertigo has muddled through the obfuscation and confusion and now has a clearer vision of the truth than our branches of government. How can we deconstruct and decompose the popular but wrong concepts?

 In Ninteen Eighty Four, the three Slogans of the Party on display everywhere are:

• WAR IS PEACE
• FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
• IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

Is our conscience clear?

"Whence is that knocking? How is 't with me when every noise appals me? What hands are here? Ha! They pluck out mine eyes. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather. The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red." (Macbeth in Shakespeare's Macbeth.)

 For the beacon of  democracy to incessantly wage perpetual mimetic warfare and conduct a series of brutal military occupations against other countries in the name of liberty seems, on the face of it, too contradictory to elicit more than hoots of derision and cat-calls of aspersions at the credulousness and hypocrisy of it all. The ardent appartchiks of the Neocons, the suspected acolytes of Belzeebub copiously mushrooming in the augean avairys of shoddy and amorphous yellow journalism are not an aberrant phenomenon nor a anachronistic mutation-they are ubiquitous.

Knock, knock! Who's there, in th' other devil's name? Faith, here's an equivocator that could swear in both the scales against either scale, who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven. O, come in, equivocator. (The Poeter in Shakespeare's Macbeth)

Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!
"Charge for the guns!" he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred. The Charge of the Light Brigade, Alfred, Lord Tennyson

A cornucopia of our Neoliberals, the alleged abbettors of Abaddon, along with the chosen cognoscenti of our craven claque of Xenophobes refuses to anathematizes the tsunami of bigotry and chauvinism blowing across our shores.

My hands are of your color, but I shame. To wear a heart so white (Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's Macbeth)

Nineteen Eighty Four by H.G. Wells  begins on April 4, 1984 at 13:00 hours: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen..." The date's relevance is questionable, because it is what Winston Smith perceives. In the story's course, he concludes that the date is irrelevant, because the State can arbitrarily alter it to be whatever it says it to be. The year 1984 and its world are chronologically transmutable onto any society that surrenders its freedom to the State.

 A cabal of polemicists, some public officials and their claque in the licensed media seek to ensnare our country in a series of proxy wars that are not in America's interests. The ethereal example of Penopolesian perpetual and mimetic warfare between Athens and Sparta led to the emaciation of the Athenian democracy and the denouement of the Athenian republic. (Socrates was on the side of the anti-democrats)

 The sane tocsin from our founding fathers about these "foreign entanglements" was perennial and is still valid. We ignore the advice at our own peril. Sure enough these entanglements are deleterious to our freedoms, and are rusting our very foundations for which our progeny may have to pay a ponderous price.

 "Because democracy is noble, it is always endangered. Nobility, indeed, is always in danger. Democracy is perishable. I think the natural government for most people, given the uglier depths of human nature, is fascism. Fascism is more of a natural state than democracy. To assume blithely that we can export democracy into any country we choose can serve paradoxically to encourage more fascism at home and abroad."-Norman Mailer from Why Are We at War?

 Belonging to the White House Press Corps (WHPC) has it's privileges in terms of interviews and ‘scoops". The acquiescent WHPP is imbedded too deep into the pockets of the establishment "Ministry of Truth" to challenge "Big Brother." Our Lady Liberty, the cynosure of the land of the free is bedraggled and buckling under the onslaught of acerbic acid rain emanating from the amorphous and bilious commentariat which seems to know everything and owns the media.

Nineteen Eighty-Four introduces the intercontinental nation of Oceania, one of the world's three superstates, which is run by an oppressive totalitarian government

Nineteen Eighty-Four is an anti-totalitarian cautionary tale about the betrayal of a revolution by its defenders. He already had stated distrust of totalitarianism and betrayed revolutions in Homage to Catalonia and Animal Farm. Coming Up For Air, at points, celebrates the personal and political freedoms lost in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

The world of Nineteen Eighty-Four is built around a never-ending war involving the book's three superstates, with two allied powers fighting against the third. But as Goldstein's book explains, each superstate is so strong it cannot be defeated even when faced with the combined forces of the other two powers. The allied states occasionally split with each other and new alliances are formed. Each time this happens, history is rewritten to convince the people that the new alliances were always there, using the principles of doublethink. The war itself never takes place in the territories of the three powers; the actual fighting is conducted in the disputed zone stretching from Morocco to Australia, and in the unpopulated Arctic wastes. Throughout the first half of the novel, Oceania is allied with Eastasia, and Oceania's forces are combating Eurasia's troops in northern Africa.

Midway through the book, the alliance breaks apart and Oceania, newly allied with Eurasia, begins a campaign against Eastasian forces

 In reality our reporters are either imbedded on the war front, unable and unwilling to investigate the real foxhole or imbedded in a dogmatic battle based on their agenda or the schema of their employers. The increasingly obsequies press simply regurgitates the compendium of every scurrility babbled out by the same chosen think tanks. They invite each other to their talk shows, echo each other's opinions, quote each other's banality, and critique each other's exegesis, fallaciously creating a counterfeit sense of consensus and a ersatz consonance of view.

 The populace of Oceania, belonging to three classes-Inner Party members, Outer Party members and members of a lower-class proletariat ("the Proles")-is subordinate to ruthless government control. This is accomplished and regulated by a "Ministry of Truth" in which the protagonist, Winston Smith, works as an Outer Party member. Smith spends his days constantly rewriting and altering history to satisfy the government (which includes destroying all evidence of how history has actually happened)-amending newspaper articles of the past so to remove all reference to predictions that didn't come true, and individuals whom the state has identified as "unpersons" (people who the state declares as having never existed).

A typical Two Minutes Hate is depicted in the novel, during which citizens ridicule and shout at a video of ... as he releases a litany of attacks upon Oceanic governance on a background of enemy soldiers Iin the book's portrayal of the Two Minutes they are Eurasian, but after the switch to the war with Eastasia, it is expected that the background changes to Eastasian soldiers..

book hints that, in fact, there may not actually be a war. The only view of the outside world presented in the novel is through Oceania's media, which has an obvious tendency to exaggerate and even fabricate "facts", and the rocket bombs ostensibly fired by the enemy. Goldstein's book suggests that the three superpowers may not actually be warring, and as Oceania's media provide completely unbelievable news reports on impossibly long military campaigns and victories (including a ridiculously large campaign in the Sahara desert), it can be suggested that the war is a lie. Julia even goes so far as to suggest that the rocket bombs that land on London are launched by the Party from other parts of Oceania.

 Even Eurasia and Eastasia themselves may only be a fabrication by the government of Oceania, with Oceania the sole undisputed dominator of the world. On the other hand, Oceania might as well actually control only a rather small part of the world and still brainwash its citizens into believing that Oceania dominates the whole Earth or - as in the novel - that they are battling/allying with (a fabricated) Eurasia/Eastasia. (Source and excerpts of 1984 from Wikipedia.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four)

 In spite of a cornucopia of cogent evidence the press' pedantic twaddle assiduously fails to illuminate the confusing deluge of eerily inept and amorphous counter-intuitive claptrap masquerading as fact in the clumsily stage-managed "global war on terror" environment.

"A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped". Norman Mailer

It seems as if one is reading from Pravda or Izvestia of yesteryear. This has been called the "dumbing down of America" and the denouement of our First Amendment rights. The fiascos in Iraq and the blowback from Afghanistan are a few examples on how wrong they were. It has cost us more than a trillion Dollars and counting.

Perpetual Warfare:

 Some analysts, such as Noam Chomsky, posit that a state of perpetual war is an aid to (and is promoted by) the powerful members of dominant political and economic classes, helping maintain their positions of economic and political superiority.

Some have also suggested that entering a state of perpetual war becomes progressively easier in a modern democratic republic such as the United States due to the continuing development of interlocking relationships between those who benefit directly from war and the large and powerful companies that indirectly benefit and shape the presentation of the effects and consequences of war (i.e., the formation of a military-industrial complex).

 here has been some criticism from anti-war activists and Bush critics, for example, that the Bush administration's ties to Halliburton influenced the decision to go to war in Iraq and Afghanistan. These claims have been pointedly rejected by the George W. Bush White House.

However, the concept of a military-industrial complex was first suggested by President Eisenhower and the idea that military action can be seen as a form of market-creation goes at least as far back as the publication of War Is a Racket. The economic make-up of the 5th century BC Athens-led Delian League also bears resemblance to the economic ramifications of preparing for perpetual war (such as that seen in North Korea, with satellite states to contribute resources).

 9/11 was blowback from the 80s. The failed foreign policies in South and Central Asia are our seeds that will crate future blowback. Selective amnesia cannot deny the verity that DNA tests have proven the pedig  ree of the anti-USSR Taliban and political parentage of anti-Soviet "Usa-ma."-it is American. Denying patrimony, running away from child-support, and forcing foster parentage to others of failed American policies in South Asia does not eliminate the root cause of the problems, impinges on our credibility and makes us the laughing stock of the world. The last Afghan war of the last century mothballed the USSR. The first Afghan war of this century resurrected a powerfully potent Russia along with the powerful Shanghai Cooperation Organization which now includes China and maybe Iran and Pakistan.

 This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence - economic, political, even spiritual - is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together President of the United States (and former General of the Army) Dwight D. Eisenhower later used the term in his Farewell Address to the Nation on January 17, 1961: r

The American public at home is increasingly fed a crass media diet of Kiplingesque heroic deeds of derring-do by "our boys" on the front line in Global War on Terror (GWOT). One dimensional unsophisticated carping judgment perpetuate stereotypical urban myths-- the presentation of simplistic dichotomy between good (anyone without a beard ---who is with us) and evil (anyone with a beard-is against us).

Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child. Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden, 1899

"America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind." Norman Mailer

 The indiscriminate launch of parlous petards at loyal allies, nauseating  fixation upon the irrelevant,  and paranoid conspiratorial delusions about Pakistanis, are a fatuously ignominious and transparent attempt to justify the murderous rampage, carnage and barbarism inflicted upon the innocent. This type of galling horrible hubris evinces images of "the ugly American" megalomaniac, and generates self fulfilling prophecies which may be very detrimental to our interests.

 Take up the White Man's burden--
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain
To seek anoth  er's profit,
And work another's gain.

 "No, we will rise no higher than the spiritual understanding of our leadership. And now that the ardor of victory has begun to cool, some will see how it is flawed. For we are victim once again of all those advertising sciences that depend on mendacity and manipulation. We have been gulled about the real reasons for this war, tweaked and poked by some of the best button-pushers around to believe that we won a noble and necessary contest when, in fact, the opponent was a hollowed-out palooka whose monstrosities were ebbing into old age." Norman Mailer "White Man Unburdened"

 Pakistan has deployed 100,000 troops in our tribal areas alone - and in Afghanistan, the area which is 20 times larger than the tribal area, there are 40,000 NATO troops. The NATO troops are overwhelmed in a sea of hashish and IEDs.  This new war in Afghanistan reminds them of other predations, the Gulf of Tonkin, and the WMDs in Iraq. Are we resurrecting the desiccated and mummified plans of yesteryear's morass, the plans that bombed Vietnam's neighbors, Laos and Cambodia.

 Take up the White Man's burden--
The savage wars of peace--
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.

Pakistanis are right when they say "we are doing much more than any body." More than 1000 Pakistanis have died fighting the so called "war on terror", and Pakistan has been a US ally since 1947. Pakistanis wanted "Friends not Masters". Now they are saying "we don't want your favors or your hate".

Reel'd from the sabre stroke
Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.

Copied from Poems of Alfred Tennyson, J. E. Tilton and Company, Boston, 1870, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Exeunt: lightning and thunder, shock and awe. Dust, ash, fog, fire, smoke, sand, blood, and a good deal of waste now move to the wings. The stage, however, remains occupied. The question posed at curtain-rise has not been answered. Why did we go to war? Norman Mailer "White Man Unburdener"

Today the Orwellian 1984 is spreading beyond the incubator cocoon of the Patriot's Act. Many countries around the world are mimicking the Patriots Act. Freedom is being diminished.

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Certainly the American CIA, the Pakistani ISI, the India RAW, the Afghan "KHAD" and the Russian "KGB" do not know.

Mums the word from the American administration and CIA. Three mortals have one time or other known where he was. All three journalists have interviewed him

1. Robert Fisk for the Independent of the UK
2. Hamid Mir of GEO TV of Pakistan
3. Yosri Fouda of Al Jazeera of Qatar

One would have expected Michael Sheuer to claim the $50 million bounty on the head of OBL. After all Mike was the head of the CIA unit that was tracking OBL. Mike also has written extensively about OBL. However it looks like Morgan Spurlock, of Super Size me fame may have discovered the most wanted man in the world. Internet bloggers are claiming that Spurlock has tracked down the "holy grail". Is it Osama bin Laden?  He has succeeded where Mr. Bush, Mr. Musharraf and Mr. Karzai have failed.  The whisper about OBL and Spurlock is now a crescendo on the blogs--also covered by  MSNBC. It is possible, perhaps probable and definitely not inconceivable that Spurlock was granted an interview with the nemesis of Mr. Bush---OBL himself. The CIA officials are not saying anything on this story.

The buzz at the Berlin Film Festival in February was that the book and movies rights to "Where Is The World Is Osama bin Laden?" have already been bought and sold at the exorbitant rate of $25 million.

The sensational MSNBC ran the story with the red hot headline: "Did Morgan Spurlock find Osama bin Laden?" We will surely find the answer at the Sundance Film Festival.

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Who is a member of the 62-mile-high club? NASA, the Astronauts and the Cosmonauts are not talking and may have a secret "don't ask don't tell policy".  BUT here is a list of possible suspects in some ET cyber hanky-panky since they had men and women in space since 1982.

1982: On the first flight, cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya's put on a very tough outlook. Svetlana was m

arried so did she put out a tough outlook to repudiate rumors about her sexuality.

1990: Rumors were rampant about the coziness between Elena Kondakova and Valery Polyakov on a mission to the space station Mir. They ain't talking but these are the prime suspects for being the first humans to have sex in space. They were playful in the fight and were caught splashing water on each other on camera

1992: Training-camp sweethearts Jan Davis and Mark Lee served together on a mission and got married right before the launch.  Rumor has it that a video exists.You can see them in this photo.

Sex is space sex on a 737 sized shuttle would be less difficult than the back seat of a Chevy, a broom closet, or an airplane bathroom, and a bit more private than the Walmart parking lot!  The space station, offers plenty of room where a couple could retreat 200 feet away from the third astronaut (for a twosome). A couple would also have 6 hours to find the right moment in the uncomfortable strap down bed when the third person is on night/day watch at the other end of the cabin. Just like home the space-station crews have plenty of time on weekends to enjoy themselves

How good would the sex be in the 62 mile high club? Could be fantastic with the extra maneuverability it offers. Astronauts sweat a lot in flight, so the sex be hot, and wet. Most astronauts are already used to the uncomfortableness of space. So for the willing and the frustrated love making would be a great distraction from the chores assigned by NASA. Four positions have been identified as most conducive and the missionary position is not one of them. Most terra bound humans can only talk about it this century. However who knows, we may even have Thai massage parlors in space! 

It was nauseating. to read Benazir Bhutto's bilious banal blathering "Why the world needs democracy in Pakistan". Lets get some facts to intrude. This newly appointed champion of "democracy" needs to let us about the "democratic" principles under which she been be "elected" as "Chairperson for life" in her own political party. Isn't that Stalinist? Why has she weeded out dissent in her own party (Khar, Mumtaz Bhutto, Mubbahshir Hasan, Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi--all founding members of the PPP). She is a petty tin pot dictator in her own party.

I was an ardent supported of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and also Benazir but I am totally disappointed by her egregious words, ignominious deeds and feint petards. Her husbands deleterious supervision of the augean stables of national corruption emaciated her career twice. By kowtowing to others in foreign capitals and acting out the cognac-eyed coquet, the credulous, cowering Benazir is jeopardizing any vestige of sovereignty that remains.

She also needs to inform us about her legislative accomplishments when she was in office. (Answer: None or close to it!). How many days did parliament meet during here tenure, and how many times was she absent?  How much money did she steal from Pakistan? (Answer $1.3 Billion plus Surray Palace). Why did she not repeal the "haddod" ordinance which was an anti-women law imposed by General Zia ul Haq? She also needs to let the readers know on her record of political victimization of her opponents including Nawaz Sharif and Altaf Husain. She has never really clarified her role in creation of the Talibaan. During her tenure there was an urban guerilla movement in urban Sindh which has now been resolved. Atrocities committed by her lieutenant Mr. Babar are well documented by Amnesty International.

To save herself from being anathematized as a discarded varmint Benazir needs to explain the claim that she wears a white "chador" per Sindhi custom to take revenge on Pakistani who she blames for the death of her father. Is this a “Fifth column” amongst us? She has been impugned for her furtive and malevolent machinations which led to the hapless emaciation and denouement of the Khalistan movement.

Benazir Bhutto wants power at any cost, and she has sold her soul for it. . We await here mea culpa on various events and an apology to the Pakistani nation

A NEW AGREEMENT ON US AID BASED ON ON GROUND REALITIES: The new American requests for for more "accountability" of aid to Pakistan is a fair demand. Because the aid agreement will have to be revised, the amount in the aid agreement has to be scrutinized. Pakistan has been selling its services cheap and renting the soil at below cost. Pakistani officials should scrutinize the actuarial details and dispatch a revised invoice based on various factors:

US “AID” IS PEANUTS: Aid must be compared to that given to Israel and Egypt and that offered to Turkey for the Gulf war for transit facilities. US aid to Pakistan was not gratuity. Most it was payment for military bases, transit facilities, and army subcontracting. From 2001 to 2007, the United States extended $10.09 billion in assistance to Pakistan, the highest single year figure being $1.77 billion, which was remitted in 2007.  The projected figure for 2008 is $840 million only. According to figures tabulated by the Congressional Research Service, the breakdown is as under:

• Total economic support funds $1.89 billion
• Other development aid $453 million
• Foreign military financing $1.27 billion
• Other security-related aid $377 million
• Coalition support funds $5.93 billion
• Total non-food aid plus coalition support funds ($9.9 billion)
• Food aid $177 million

This aid to Pakistan has to be looked at based on internationally recognized criteria.

1) Loss to the Pakistani economy. In 2001 American accounts in America calculated that the loss to Pakistan was about $10 Billion a year. This is the amount that should be reimbursed to Pakistan on an annual basis. 

2) Benchmarking amounts paid to other "transit facilities: Turkey was offered $34 Billion for access rig

hts into Iraq which the Turkish parliament turned down. Pakistani transit facilities have been used for the past four years. The bill for the transit facilities and bases should be $34 Billion per annum adjusted for inflation and other factors.

3) The Philippines had billed America for use of the bases. That amount benchmarked against the amounts paid to Germany, and Korea should be looked at. Because the six bases for America are in an actual war zone, the amount should be trebled.

4) Military aid. On top of the basics, the USA should provide a fleet of helicopters, a caravan of hovercrafts, squadrons of F-22s and vertical take off jets.

5) Pakistan needs a FTA with the USA and the EU and abolishment of quotas in textile exports to the EU and the USA.

6) Pakistan needs 500 new hospitals, 5000 new schools, and 500 new libraries.

7) American mercenaries are paid $150,000 per year to participate in the war in Iraq with full health insurance and loss of family member benefits.. Pakistani soldiers used in the "War on Terror" should be paid the same amount on a per soldier basis plus

Here is a list of requirements missing from the manifestos of all political parties:

WISH LIST FOR UNCLE SAM

• We want Bullet Trains running from the Karakorum’s and beyond to Gwader and beyond. $ 2 Billion
• We want a modern train system and underground railways for our cities. $ 2 Billion
• We want Water and sewage lines in our major cities and our towns and villages. $ 5 Billion
• We want 1000 proper schools for our children and we want $1 Billion 
• 2500 brand new world class hospitals. $ 1 Billion.
  • Compare to the USA: (Total Number of All U.S. Registered Hospitals 5,759. Total Staffed Beds in All U.S. Registered Hospitals  955,768)
• We want 500 modern libraries spread all over the country. Build a library larger than the one in Alexandria. $250 million compare to 117,378 libraries in the USA
• We want a Motorway system to link all cities of Pakistan, North and South, East and West. $10 billion
• We need 10 new major airports linked by High Speed Trains. $10 Billion
• We want 50 million “$100 computers” for Pakistanis in Urdu and all local languages. $100 million
• We want “kachi abadis” to disappear from our cities. We want to see skyscraper and government housing for all the poor who can be used for labor to build the building. $ 5 Billion
• We want 100 power plants to eliminate the shortage of electricity in the country.$ 500 million
• We want 5 major dams and 100 minor dams to prevent the acute water shortage in the country. $ 500 million
• We want 100 ships for the Pakistan National Shipping Corporation so that Pakistan can become a major sea faring nation able to handle the trade. $ 5 Billion
• We have to quadruple the yield for our Cotton, Milk and Wheat production benchmarked against the USA, Australia and Canada. $1 Billion
• Teach Urdu, English, Farsi, Arabic and Chinese in all schools. Also optional languages Punjabi, Kashmiri, Pahari, Hindkoh, Saraki, Pushto, Baluchi, Brahvi, Sindhi, Darri, Potohari. $ 50 million
• Get ship load of Sri Lankan teachers to eliminate illiteracy in Pakistan. $ 10 million
• Get boatloads of Malaysian manufacturers to setup electronic manufacturing in Pakistan
• Get train loads of Koreans to build 10 new planned cities in Pakistan. $ 10 Billion
• Get a plane load of the Swiss to build world class ski resorts and amusement parks and develop our archeological sites as wonders of the world. $ 2 Billion
• Get busloads of Chinese to build industrial parks in Pakistan. $ 10 Billion
• We want to reclaim millions of acres of desert in Baluchsitan for our future generations. $ 3 Billion

Mohandas (not Mahatma) Gandhi’s Failed Leadership in Politics and Gandhi’s Domestic Violence and weird Sexual Perversion in his private life

POLITICAL FAILURE:

Gandhi did not bring the British empire to its knees. The exhausted British had already decided to leave all her colonies after the 2nd world war. Gandhi first introduced Hindu religious symbols to the Secular Indian National Congress and then tried to make all of India succumb to a racist Hindu Rajha rule.Gandhi was a failure in South Africa and a failed attorney in Bombay. Gandhis sole contribution to history was to make 150 million Muslims of India subservient to the Hindus. Attempts to make another 300 million subservient continue. Other than lip service he was unable to eliminate the caste system in India. He introduced religious symbols into politics which led to the Indian National attracting the communalists like Patel. As a result of the Ashrams and the satyargarhs and the Banda Mahtaram INC became a Hindu Party with the Muslims in the Muslim League and the Sikhs in the Akali Dal. Unable to agree on the Cabinet Mission Plan all agreed to gain independence in a different manner from the British. Gandhi’s religious symbols eventually led to the BJP ruling India, Ayodhia and the massacres in Gujrat. Secularism in India means “Hinduism Light”

PERSONAL FAILURE:

1. Gandhi used to beat his wife up routinely.

2. Gandhi was having sex when his father lay breathing his last upstairs.

3. Gandhi denied sex to his wife for decades

4. Gandhi was an adulterer and had a spiritual marriage with two British women who were in the Ashram

5. Gandhi slept naked with his niece and other women to prove that he could control his manliness.

6. Gandhi would do enemas twice a day and if he liked you allowed you to enter the piece up his rectum.

7. Gandhi son left him and converted to Islam

You can see all of this in the movie Gandhi but it is not overt and explicitly shown. You have to be smart and familiar with the history to se it imbedded in the movie.

This is what Time Magazine says:

“Exceptions to the author's reserve mostly center on Gandhi's limitations as a family man. Where the world sees a saint, Rajmohan Gandhi sees a cruel husband and a mostly absent father, paying scant attention to his children's schooling and dragging wife Kasturba across continents at will, belittling her desire for the simplest of material possessions, then expecting her to comply when he turns from amorous husband to platonic companion to apparent adulterer. Gandhi took on a magnetic personality in the presence of young women, and was able to persuade them to join him in peculiar experiments of sleeping and bathing naked together, without touching, all apparently to strengthen his chastity. (Whether these experiments were always successful is anyone's guess.) It is also revealed that Gandhi began a romantic liaison with Saraladevi Chaudhurani, niece of the great poet Rabindranath Tagore—a disclosure that has created a buzz in the Indian press. The author tells us that Gandhi, perhaps disingenuously, called it a "spiritual marriage," a "partnership between two persons of the opposite sex where the physical is wholly absent."

This bombshell occupies only five pages, but it gives Rajmohan Gandhi enough material for his book's redeeming feature—namely, the clear depiction of the tensions between Gandhi's erratic emotional compass and his unswerving moral one. For despite the occasional salacious lapses, the overarching principle that infused Gandhi's life was his intrinsic belief in the equality of all souls.

Everything else about Gandhi is just plain marketing garbage.

Source: Mohandas by Gandhi's grandson, In Search of Truth by Mohandas Gandhi, Freedom at Midnight by Le Pierre (screen play for the movie Gandhi).

Mohandas– a true story of a man, his people and an empire, on Mahatma Gandhi” by former Parliamentarian and writer Mr. Rajmohan Gandhi

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1609478,00.html

Federalism vs. State Rights in Pakistan

FEDERATIONS AND CONFEDERATIONS

Modern nation states are divided into confederations and federations. The United States of America is a confederation of many states which in 1776 decided to come together as a single entity. After the initial union of 13 states was successful, 37 other states decided to join the American Union. Each state has its own executive and its own judicial  and administrative state system that mirrors the federal system.

The Republic of Pakistan is a federation. This means that Pakistan was formed first and the administrative units were outlined later.  A federation has administrative units that are formed to monitor, regulate and govern the principle assets of the people who live within their boundaries. In 1947 the representative of the provinces of Sindh, Sarhad, Balauchistan and Sarhad and the states of Manvanagar and Junagarh decided to join Pakistan while the other provinces and states decided to join the Republic of India.  Many states like Hydrabad decided to stay neutral but India captured them anyway.

The purpose of creating provinces is to allow the local officials to have power over their own rights and assets. The purpose of democracy is to empower the local citizens so that they can elect their own representatives to safe guard their own interests and fight for their rights at the national level.

At the time of independence In 1947, the Republic of Pakistan had the following political and administrative structures:

1. In 1947 the district of Karachi was Federal capital territory and even though it was in the proximity of Sindh, Karachi was monitored directly from the Governor Generals Office. In 1947 the district of Karachi was not part of the province of Sindh.

2. Large areas of Pakistan were administered by the federal machinery. Of these tribal areas (Federally Administered Tribal Areas-FATA) are probably the largest chunk of territory administered by the center. FATA is represented by senators in the Senate of Pakistan

3. The provinces of Sarhad (NWFP), Balauchistan, Punjab, Bengal and Sindh which had and still have their own provincial assemblies

4. In 1947 some units of Pakistan were left nominally independent as states. Hunza Chitral, Swat were states within Pakistan.  The administration of these states was left in the hands Amirs with little interference from the center. The centrally administered states were later abolished by Yahya Khan.

5. Azad Kashmir was and is like a "state", nominally independent but actually run by the ministry of Kashmir Affairs by the federal government.
Even though Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto talked about amalgamating Kashmir into Pakistan, this has never actually happened.

Shifting away from the paradigm of 1971. As a nation we have come a long way from the debacle of 1971. We cannot continue to live in the shadows of the fall of Dacca (Dhaka). More autonomy for administrative units cannot be equated with cessation. Neither the devolution of power to the people nor the change in the boundaries of the current provinces will lead to the disintegration of the nation. The subjugation of the rights of minorities can lead to sever frustrations. Democracy is a dynamic institution. Provinces are administrative units. Provincial boundaries are not sacrosanct lines carved in stone.

Our country is not so fragile that it cannot stand a simple change in the provincial boundaries. Neither is it so weak that more provincial autonomy would automatically lead to disintegration. Pakistan is as strong as the will of the people to keep it together. More empowerment to the people will make our country stronger not weaker.

HOW JINNAH AND LIAQAT OF THE PAKISTAN MOVEMENT OUTMANEUVERED THE FIFTH COLUMNS

The Defeat of Sir Choutto Rams Zamindara League and the Feudal Unionist Parties in the Punjab

By Moin-A Updated Feb 20th, 1997

The silent majority remains supine and tries to ignore the hate-clans polemical diatribes. We are an emotional people. The pullulating millions should not be swayed by the rantings of a few, however on many occasions the young and the impressionable can actually be beguiled. The nurseries of hate produce the lone assassins and the suicide bombers, not by actually showing them how to murder and maim but, rather by creating an atmosphere of intolerance. The question before all of us is the same question that beduffled the nation in the forties; can the majority take cathartic action against this evil phalanx within us? Can the moderate and progressive forces see through the vacuity of the argument proposed by the fringe? If not the clans hate mongering will lead to us anachronism and obscurantism. If we cannot expose the true agenda of the hate mongers, it will be an opprobrium to our great heritage.  For the past fifty years a tiny miniscule minority is engulfed in pure unadulterated malevolence. This hate mongering clan brings up obscure arguments, and selects inexplicable references, and has tried to debase our history.  Those of us who have not caviled with the facts must challenge the gross inaccuracies over and over again. Let us all coalesce and destroy the cabal that thrives on the profits of feudalism, slavery, and the military industrial giants. Our teeming millions are steeped in penury. Can we improve their lot?  

Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah out smarted the INC and their lackeys by forming liaisons in the Punjab and by bypassing the jirga leadership in the Sarhad. The following is a detailed description of how Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Shaheed e Millat Khan Liaqat Ali Khan, outsmarted their opponents and provided counter balance to the Congressional props in the Punjab and the Sarhad. Had the fifth column called the Unionist succeeded in their conspiracies with the Congress, there would have been no Pakistan.

"Most of this area, now called Pakistan, was under Ranjeet Singh's empire (1799-1839), and even in notorious anarchic era of 1839-1849 the state was sovereign, maintaining unchallenged monopoly coercive  power, but lacked societal will and `ethical idea' to enforce order and, ultimately, collapsed. If that was not a colonialist expansionist era, that state might have prolonged for long despite the internal chaos."

THE FIFTH COLUMNS: FRINGE FASCIST MOVEMENTS OF THE SUBCONTINENT
There were the mainstream movements in the Subcontinent that represented the wishes of the people. There were also fringe fascist movements and fringe feudal parties that represented the vested interests of a few individuals. These fringe movements failed to win the hearts and the minds of the people. If the fascist movements had succeeded, there would have been no Pakistan. The Muslim League and the Congress won electoral victories and led the two countries to nationhood.

The fifth columns represent a sad chapter in our history. Most Indians aware of our history are ashamed of the fringe movements. Similarly most Pakistanis are ashamed of the fringe terror movements. Eulogizing the fascist movements based on ethnic origin may have worked in 1939 in Germany, but the world has rejected fascism and what they represented. The world has also rejected feudalism, though some vestiges of this dinosaur remain in certain pockets of the Subcontinent.

THE MUSLIM LEAGUE THROUGH SEPARATE ELECTORATES REPRESENTED THE MUSLIMS
The Indian National Congress and the All India Muslim had a point to argue with the British Raj. The Indian National Congress continued to argue that the Congress was the representative of all the people of "India". The Muslim League argued the point that the Muslim League and the Muslim League alone represented the rights, and the aspirations of the Muslims of the Subcontinent. The Indian National Congress wanted to forge "India" into a nation, while the Muslim League argued that India had never been a nation, and that it had always been a conglomeration of nationalities. Even though the British called it "India', there were actually more than 500 different
countries in the Subcontinent.

The Muslim League formed by Alama Iqbal and many other leaders in 1906 as a reaction to the imposition of Hindi-Devanagri script on the Muslims, and as an immediate reaction to the annulment of the partition of Bengal (which would have created the province of Muslim Bengal with a Muslim majority). The mission of the Muslim League was to fight for the rights of the Muslims, and fight it did. It fought the Indian National Congress and it fought the British Raj.

The story of the Muslim League is indeed a story of success. Under the able leadership of Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Khan Liaqat Ali Khan, the Muslim League was able to score many wins. From its nascent beginnings the League turned into a mass movement, and this strength was depicted in its successes. Even though the Muslim League was not successful in securing the province of Muslim Bengal, around 1933 the Muslim League was successful in
securing for the creation of the province of SINDH.

THE RADICALIZATION OF THE MODERATE CONGRESS: UNHOLY ALLIANCES
The Congress under the leadership of Motilal Nehru had been a moderate right wing political party run by Harrow and Oxbridge bred Indians. To improve the base of the Congress so that it represented a broad base of Indians, some nonconformist elements were brought into the party. These ultraist elements radicalized the INC and moved it leftwards. By the time Jawaharlal became president of the INC the political ideology of the party had moved towards the Fabian and Socialist camps. Under Jawaharlal Nehru the Congress was polarized between its secular (Nehru), parochial (Patel) and religious leadership (Lal Laj Pai). Gandhi tried a dual tactic to isolate the Muslim League.

1)  On the one hand Gandhi was able to put up a great facade of tranquility by appointing figurehead Muslim "showboys" like Azad to the Congress Leadership. These figureheads had no real power and were over ruled on many occasions by the real Brahmin power brokers in the Congress.

2)  On the other hand the Indian National Congress tried to sow seeds of discontent and tried to put in wedges in the Muslim movement. The Congress tried to put up alliances with Muslim figureheads in the Punjab and in Sarhad

The Gandhi tactics were to show the British that the Congress represented all Indians-Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, Brahmins, Kahatriyas, Vaisas, Shudras and other Hindus. The INC opposed the creation of Pakistan so it strategically hunted for Muslims who would form alliances with the anti-Pakistan Congress. It found fifth columns in the Punjab and in Sarhad.

In India Wins Freedom by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (Page 138) he says the following:

...the Muslim League had been isolated and Congress, though it was a minority had become the decisive factor in Punjab affairs. Khizar Hyat Khan was the Chief Minister through Congress support and he had naturally come under its influence.

In the Punjab the socialist Congress linked up with the feudalistic landlords who represented the Unionist Party. While both the parties were poles apart in ideology and interests, both of them wanted to defeat the Muslim League and somehow stop the freight train of the Muslim League. The Congress was socialistic and had propounded the complete decimation of the feudal system. The Congress was dominated by Hindus and largely represented the interests of the majority of Indians in India -the Hindus. This marriage of convenience between the Congress and the Unionists of the
Punjab was severely criticized by the rank and file of the Congress and by Azad.

In India Wins Freedom by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (Page 138) he says the following:

The alliance of Congress with the Unionist Party was in principle wrong. They argued that the Muslim League was a mass organization and the Congress should have formed a coalition with the Muslim League and not with the Unionist Party in the Punjab...sacrificing leftist principles in forming a coalition with the Unionist Party.....

In the Sarhad the Congress found an ally called Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Badshah Khan -the Frontier Gandhi) who associated himself with the secular ideals of M.K. Gandhi.

Thanks to the Punjabi populace (who felt repressed by the Unionists and gladly voted for the Muslim League) and some great Muslim League leaders from the Punjab who supported Jinnah and Liaqat Ali Khan, the Gandhi-Congress tactics of isolating and marginalizing the League failed at the polls, when after the announcement of separate electorates, the Muslim League repeatedly got more than 96 percent of the Muslim votes. The rest as they is history.

THE ORIGINS OF THE FEUDALS IN THE PUNJAB
Let us see what was happening in the Punjab in the years just prior to independence. The British had two ways of ruling the Muslim majority provinces. They appointed Hindus to the administration, and they forced the
Muslims out of the government. They also used other Muslims to control their brethren. The British had given lands to certain Muslims in the Punjab who had kowtowed to British Raj and were loyal to the British administration. These were loyal British poodles that ruthlessly controlled the people within their domains. These pro-British feudal landlords were indeed hated by the population at large. However the feudal landlords controlled the population with an iron fist. Any insurrection against the British would be ruthlessly repressed by these Gymkhana visiting WOG
(Western Oriental Gentlemen) brown sahibs.  

MID TWENTIETH CENTURY NOMADIC PASTORALIST PUNJABI TRIBES OF SOUTH AND WEST PUNJAB
The landlord of the Punjab were worse then their British masters. They cloned themselves as the buffers and the masters of the poor people of the Punjab. This is what David Gilmartin says about the Punjab in his book
Empire and Islam: Punjab and the making of Pakistan. "As late as the middle of the nineteenth century, the population of much of southern and western Punjab had been pastoralist, migrating between the river valleys and the
barr, the flat uplands between the rivers. But in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries much of southwestern Punjab had come under canal irrigation--leading to the settling of the pastoralists and to the
migration of settlers from Central Punjab. This led to the implantation of an important rural Sikh minority in some areas, and to the growth of Hindu-dominated market towns. But in the canal colonies, as elsewhere in western Punjab, the great majority of the population remained Muslim and rural." There were many Indias at the time...and the subcontinent was surely a land of contrasts.  Shahjehan was building the Tajmahal and the
Badshahi mosque in Agra and Delhi in the 16th and 17th centuries.

PUNJAB PASTORALISTS TURN TO SETTLEMENTS AS "AGRICULTURAL TRIBES": THE SLAVERY OF THE ZAMINDARS
Punjab till the middle of the nineteenth century was truly nomadic society. As this nomadic society transformed itself into a tribal society it ended up at the mercy of the landlords. As the society transfigured itself from a tribal society, the "tribes" and "clans" remained very important in the new "baradri" system. However the populate revolved under
the central figure in the society the landlord. The landlords had gotten their ill-gotten lands by serving their British masters. The landlord was responsible for the birth, death, education, employment, punishment and prosperity of the peasants. The landlords had their own prisons, their own goonda armies, their own system of justice and their own prisons. The poor sharecroppers were asked to till the land for half the "fasil" but they were never able to keep any of the proceeds. Burdened in debt, and unable to increase their grain production, the sharecroppers eked out an existence at the mercy of the landlords. Education was illegal for the peasants.

PUNJAB SOCIAL STRUCTURES: ZAMINDARS TREATED WOMEN AS CHATTEL
Women were treated as chattel, and most landlords did not give them any right of inheritance. Many of these landlords imposed harsh taxes on the poor villagers, and imposed the right to of first night (on all brides-no matter who they brides wedded).  Patterned on  the officially sanctioned British practice of Premier Norte used on their Scottish colony in Europe, the Punjabi landlords used to get first priority on all brides before the brides were married to their husbands. This barbarous practice still exists in remote villages of the Punjab today. Punjab was ruled by ruthless feudal lords, Hyatts and Tiwana. The Tiwanas were so cruel that they had a tree stump in the back of their mansion where insolent "kisans" were beheaded because they would not agree to the harsh laws imposed by the landlords. To
this day, many landlords have their own private prisons. Prisons full of poor kisans were discovered in the Mianwali region as recent as 1994. The pictures, printed in all major Pakistani newspapers of the female bonded
prisoners and the straight-jacketed male prisoners were indeed a sad reflection on our attempts to modernize the nation.

PUNJAB POLITICAL LIFE: THE ZAMIDARA LEAGUE AND FEUDAL UNIONISTS WHO IMPRISONED THE PUNJAB IN THEIR OWN PRIVATE FIEFDOM
The Unionist Party of course had its origins in the Zamindara League of the 1920s, the party that was created to defended and protect the right of the zamindars of the Punjab. This is what David Gilmartin says about the Punjab
in his book Empire and Islam: Punjab and the making of Pakistan (Page 125-126):

"The maintenance of local power continued to preoccupy most Unionist leaders in the Council. But the definition of the Land Alienation Act, the protection of Punjabi agriculturists from the depression now seemed to be intimately linked to the maintenance of the imperial power structure in rural Punjab. The spread of popular concerns about indebtedness, and the escalating potential for rural conflict, provided the foundations of the enunciation by the Unionists of an ideological defense of the whole structure of political power in rural Punjab couched in the Land Alienation Act's language.

Sir Choutto Ram who emerged as the leading Unionist spokesman in the Punjab Legislative Council, articulated this defense most powerfully. A Hindu Jat from eastern Punjab's Rohtak district Choutto Ram had already established in the 1920s a political organization in Rohtak, the Zamindara League, and a newspaper, the Jat Gazette. These articulated the interests of Hindu Jats and attacked the influence of Hindu "banaias", or moneylenders. Building on his political base in Rohtak, Sir Choutto Ram played an increasingly prominent role in provincial politics in the 1920s and the
1930s. As he described it, he began his efforts with only the organization of the Jats in mind. But, he wrote, he "had perceived almost intuitively the to rescue Punjab as a shole from domination of vested interests the net would have to be cast sufficiently wide to embrace all agricultural tribes, irrespective of religion. For that purpose, the Unionist Party gave Sir Chhotu Ram the critical provincial vehicle, The 'agriculturist classes are the most numerous and yet the most ruthlessly exploited section of the Indian community', he declared. 'They provided, at least in the Punjab,
ready elements for bringing into existence a powerful well-knit unit of political organization......

PUNJAB POLITICAL STRUCTURES: LOYALIST ZAMINDARA LEAGUE DEFENDS RAJ
Colonialism had been good to the knighted elite of the Punjab. Sir Chouttos
loyalty to the Raj was based on ideology, but it was also based on profits.
The Zamindara League after the elections had taken over the administration
of the province, and this gave power and prestige and it gave it a key to
the profits.

"some local officials saw little difference between the Zamindara League and the Congress But the antigovernment tone of the organization only thinly concealed the organization's underlying ideological support for the existing structure of the colonial regime. He chided the government in 1930 of failing to realize the importance of the League as a defender of the British system against more radical groups. ' ZAMINDAR LEAGUE WORKERS' he declared 'ARE BEING OPPOSED BY CONGRESS,KIRTI KISAN, AND Hindu SBHA WORKERS AND ARE IN SOME MEASURE FIGHTING THE BATTLES OF GOVERNMENT'. Indeed the significance of the Zamindara League lay primarily in its attempt to mobilize support for the rural power structure in the name of interests of a popularly defined 'class' constituency. And in this it became a vital model for the Unionist Party as the process of 'democratization' proceeded. Though the Unionists never established a popular rural political organization of the sort established by the Zamindara League in Rohtak, the party used the Zamindara League name after 1936 as a mantle for its own efforts at popular organizing outside the Council. The name in fact came to symbolize the party's claim to an independent, 'class' base."

Perhaps most important, however, Sir Chhotu Ram translated the goals of the Zamindara League into a program in the Council in the mid-1930s, which embodied the interests of the 'agriculturalist classes and laid the foundations for the articulation of a powerful symbolic ideology by the Unionists themselves.' "

SIR CHOTTU RAMS UNIONISTS PARTY
In the Forties a rag tag band of landlords thieves was led by Sir Chutto Ram, Sir Fazli and the Hyatts and Tiwanas under a party called The Unionist Party. The Unionists secured their votes by ensuring that  if one person in the village did not vote for them, they would apply mass punishments to the entire village by cutting off their water, or banishing entire families away from the villages. These landlords also ran private prisons for those who did not comply to the heinous laws. The poor kisans, caught in a vicious cycle of poverty were steeped in debt and would lose their lands
to the money lenders. The British passed an act called the Land Alienation Act that would discourage this policy. The landlords did not overtly oppose he act that would have favored the landless pageantry but the landlords opposed it tooth and nail . This is what David Gilmartin says about the Punjab in his book Empire and Islam: Punjab and the making of Pakistan (Page 126-127):

" The rurally based Unionist party continued to dominate provincial Muslim politics, although provincial autonomy changed the unionist party character. it had long been the most important party in the Legislative Council but before 1936 had possessed little institutional identity outside the Council, organized by a handful of council leaders within the Council.

The party had operated primarily as an alliance of factional leaders----particularly sir Fazli Husain, and later, Sir Chhotu Ram. Defense of the "zamindars", the "agricultural tribes" as defined in the Land Alienation Act, gave the party a program; its local political foundations were based on the structure of British rural administration. As Sir Fazli
Husain realized, the party's cohesion in the Council was limited; in the late 1920s and early 1930s it had been manipulated easily by the colonial government"

...As inheritors of the colonial administrative tradition, most Unionist leaders had easily maintained their local power as the franchise was extended and electoral politics expanded under the new constitution. The ambivalent Unionist response to the Shahidganj mosque affair indicated the contradictions in the party's position. Though unionist leaders like Sir Fazli Husain and Sir Feroze Khan Noon had condemned the agitation style of the movement's largely urban leadership---a style challenged the administrative structure of Unionist influence---...Unionist ideology had to be consistent with the structure of the imperial hierarchy and with the idioms of authority in which the party's local power was based."

It was under these circumstances that Jinnah and Liaqat Ali Khan organized the Muslim League in the Punjab. Initially the Muslim League in order to claim its rightful place as the representatives of all Muslims of the Subcontinent formed alliances with Muslim parties...this is what Stanley Wolpert says in A New History of India (Page 326):

"Meanwhile Jinnah brought the vagrant flocks of diverse provincial Muslim
parties into one political fold under his League, winning over Fazlul Huqs
radical Praja Party and control of Bengal in October 1937 at the same time
as he captured the reactionary ministry of the BARONIAL LANDLORD SIR
SIKANDAR HYAT KHAN whose Unionist Party ruled the Punjab."

MUSLIM LEAGUE ALLIANCES JINNAH-SIKANDAR PACT
This is what David Gilmartin says about the Punjab in his book Empire and Islam: Punjab and the making of Pakistan (Page 174):

" To bring the League new organizational strength, he announced, at the
annual Lucknow session of the Muslim League in October, the signing of a
pact with Sir Sikandar, which was intended to unite the Unionist Party and
the Muslim League into a single organization. Though this move caught many
Punjab Leaguers unprepared, the alliance was in keeping with Jinnah's
intent to make the League a symbol of Muslim unity and grew naturally from
his policies in the previous year. For Sir Sikandar as well, the pact few
from a long search to strengthen Unionist power;.."

However Sikandar Hyatt did not get along with Alama Iqbal and all the
Muslim Leaguers. Hyatt wanted to replace all the old Muslim Leaguers with
his own loyal Unionists. Iqbal wrote to Jinnah repeatedly. This is what
Iqbal said "but he goes beyond the pact when he wants a complete change in
the office-holders..He also wishes that the finances of the League should
be controlled by his men. All this to my mind amounts to capturing the
League and killing it'.

HYATT VIOLATES THE PACT: ALAMA IQBAL AND HYATT FEUD IN THE PUNJAB
To understand the true intentions of Sikandar Hyatt, one has to see his
directives to his office-bearers. This is what David Gilmartin says about
the Punjab in his book Empire and Islam: Punjab and the making of Pakistan
(Page 176):

"To leaders like Iqbal, however, Sikandar's actions after his return from Lucknow only confirmed their worst fears about Unionist plan to turn the League to Unionist ends. Sikandars first move after sealing his pact with Jinnah was not to form local branches of the League, as Jinnah had requested, but rather to use the pact to resurrect the Zamindara League, an organization whose primary aim, in the words of a resolution passed at an October 1937 meeting of the zamindars, was to protect the 'legitimate interests' of the 'owners of land'. Local Unionist supporters were instructed to form Muslim League branches only after local Zamindara League branches had been successfully launched. As a Unionist resident secretary wrote in the late October 1937 in explaining this policy to once local Unionist leader:

'After the Zamindara League is founded...in your ilaqa, you will then proceed at once to constitute the local Muslim League consisting of the Muslim members of the local Zamindara League. I hope I have been able to
make myself clear that we have to constitute and then run side by side:

a) Zamindara League, consisting of Zamindara of all communities
b) Muslim League, of course consisting of Muslims only

This was hardly the Muslim League organization that the urban leaders had envisioned; they viewed the tactics as almost wholly obstructive. In reporting to Jinnah in November on the Punjab situation, Iqbal castigated the Unionists for failure to sign the creed and to hold a League session in the province, observing that 'my impression is that they want to gain time for their own Zamindara League to function'

HYATT TRIES TO GET MUSLIM LEAGUE TO ABANDON THE TERM PAKISTAN
Sikandar Hyatt did not overtly support the concept of Pakistan and publicly hedged the issue on many occasions. This angered the students of the Punjab who had wholeheartedly supported Liaqat Ali Khan and had supported Jinnah's ideas on Pakistan. David Gilmartin goes into great detail on how Sikandar Hyatt opposed the Leagues stand on Pakistan in his book Empire and Islam: Punjab and the making of Pakistan (Page 180-183). For example in .."Responding to the Lahore resolution, Sikandar attempted in early 1941 to convince the Muslim League working committee to abandon the
term 'Pakistan', which was not in the resolutions original language, to free himself to interpret the League's policy consistently with Unionist interest.....But his efforts failed; he found himself in an increasingly difficult position...Sikandars' public speeches on Pakistan were as one local League supporter put it 'half-way in and half-way out'. Occasionally Sikandar and his colleagues reacted to the political threat of pro-Pakistan propaganda by actively discouraging public discussion of Pakistan, particularly in the Punjab."

"Ultimately, Sikandar Hyatt antics proved too much for Jinnah and the
Muslim League and he was expelled from the Muslim League. After his timely
death soon afterwards, the Sikandar-Jinnah pact was declared dead, and the
Muslim League took over the machinery of the Unionists.

MAKING THE MUSLIM LEAGUE A POPULIST ORGANIZATION: PAKISTAN ACHIEVED 
In the year 1943-44 this is what was going on. Jinnah and Liaqat Ali Khan (Jinnah kept poor health during these times and Liaqat Ali Khan ran the vital and day to day affairs of the League. Khan was the brilliant strategist and alliance former of the Muslim League. He faced the "Akhand-Bharat" agenda of the Unionist-Congress alliance head on and won
the day. Liaqat Ali Khan and Jinnah out maneuvered the fifth column of the anti-Pakistan, pro-Congress, pro-United-India Unionists and got them thrown out of office. The Muslims League then pressed on with their demand of "contiguous districts in the north-west and east of India'-‘Pakistan'.

I quote Stanley Wolpert (Jinnah of Pakistan, Page 222):

" Jinnah during this interval focused his time and energies on the
strategy of seeking to make his league more effective and responsive to
popular demands and needs in the provinces it ran. ‘The Pakistan slogan is
gaining momentum', reported the Punjab's governor toward the end of May.
‘There has been considerable amount of discussion in the Press as to
whether Jinnah was justified in suggesting [in Delhi in April] that the
Punjab Cabinet is a League Ministry. The Nawab of Mamdot (Punjabi Leader of
the Muslim League) has sought to improve the occasion by a Press statement
that the Sikandar-Jinnah Pact has come to an end, the implication being
that the more active interference by the Muslim League in the Punjab
politics is to be expected. 'Sikandars death in December 1942 had left his
Unionist party ministry under the control of  a much younger, less
experienced Muslim leader, Khizar Hyat Khan Tiwana (1900-75). By early June
‘Hindu indignation with Jinnah' was reported by Linlithgow as ‘greater than
ever. Jinnah himself is well pleased, so far as one can judge, and there is
no question that he has sent his stock up still higher.

I quote Stanley Wolpert (Jinnah of Pakistan, Page 225):

Jinnah held a series an inconclusive series of summit talks with Khizar
Tiwana in Simla at this time, which the Punjab's chief minister recounted
to his governor as ‘a series of lectures from Jinnah about the services
that he had rendered to mankind'

There is a huge discussion of the One Nation Theory and the Two Nation Theory posted on my blog. Search for it. Here are some major milestones preceding independence in 1947.

In the 1937 Indian elections, Tharoor points out, Muslim voters failed to support the Muslim League – which later led Muslims to independence under Muhammad Ali Jinnah. But the popular, and integrated, Congress Party made the mistake of resigning from office to protest the British government's lack of consultation over its 1939 war declaration.

"It was a huge political blunder because it left the field open for the British ... to kick the Congress people out of office and put unelected Muslim Leaguers in power in a number of key provinces," says Tharoor.

Mahatma Gandhi's Quit India Movement, opposing British rule at the height of World War II, was also a mistake, he adds. The Congress protesters were jailed, later to re-emerge "completely out of touch." The Muslim League, which co-operated with the war effort, later won a majority of the Muslim provinces.

"Until that happened, partition was not inevitable."

Part of the problem, says Pakistani-born historian Ayesha Jalal, was the failure of Congress leaders J

awaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to cut a power-sharing deal with the Muslim League.

And, she says, Jinnah was astonished by the violence that overtook India in the final months of the British Raj: "The complete absence of adequate security measures to tackle an unexpected breakdown of law and order has to be blamed for the sheer magnitude of the killings."

The Cabinet Mission Plan proposed by Quaid-e-Azam, Mohammad Ali Jinnah and initially approved by Nehru was the last hope for the Subcontinent to stay as one country. After the Indian National Congress rejected the CMP both major parties the INC and the All India Muslim League had lost all trust in each other and went their different wasy. The INC was busy consolidating their power while the ML was busy consolidating its power in the Muslim majority areas.

Detailed Timeline:

1885: Indian National Congress formed

1905    Cruzon first attempts to partition Bengal based on religion. This attempt failed after much
    protest from Hindus.

1906   Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Mohammad Ali Jinnah joins Indian congress for unity between Hindus and Muslims.

1906 The Muslim League was formed

1907   Indian National Congress splits into two groups, the moderates, and
    the radicals who demanded self-rule. These two sides eventually re-united for WWI.

1911   Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah influences the Muslim League

1913   Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah joins the Muslim League.

1929   Gandhi's Civil Disobedience Movement was passed by congress.  INC implements "Big Tent" policy which includes fundamentalists like Patel

1929 All major Indian Muslim political leaders, including Maulana Mohammed Ali, Maulana Shaukat Ali,
    Jinnah, and many others, quit Congress after the realization that it was dominated by Hindu communalists and fanatics who were visibly influencing its policies.

1930 Alama Iqbal asks for a Muslim homeland in his address in Allahbad

1931    The Congress and the Muslim League drifted far apart in their programs and goals.

1940    The Lahore Resolution is passed (later renamed the Pakistan Resolution) Muslim League officially demands a separate homeland for Muslims in areas of the Subcontinent with a Muslim majority. Chaudhry Rehmat Ali coins the moniker P-A-K-I-S-T-A-N (Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, islam, Sindh and baluchisTAN)

1945    Muslims obtain 30 seats in legislature.  The Indian government begins to plan for an
     interim government; Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah and many other Muslims see this as lessening their power. Bande Mahatram imposed on Muslim children. Riots break out,  and this violence continued in 1946.

1947    Pakistan and India gains independence from the British.  Approximately 17 million Hindus and Muslims are uprooted.  Violence  breaks out which causes the death of 1 million.

1947: Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah becomes governor-general of Pakistan; Liaquat Ali Khan becomes Prime Minister.  Lord Mountbatten becomes Governor General of "Bharat". Jawaharal Nehru became Prime  Minister of India.

1948: India and Pakistan dispute Kashmir, which has a Muslim majority but is controlled by a Hindu Raja.  Indian troops move into Kashmir prior to the Article of Accession being signed. Pakistan liberate one third of Azad Kashmir.  Fighting is halted after a United Nations resolution ceasefire.  The UN resolution never implemented and no plebescite was ever held.

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Kashmir: 100,000 civilians killed

White Widows: 50, million women ostracized from society and incarcerated in temples

East Punjab: Brutal suppression of Punjabi insurrection. Thousands killed

Tamil Nadu and Mizuram are in flames seeking independence

Tamil insurrection in Sri Lanka fled by Tamils in India

Bihar: Major issues in Bihar and problems with Bangladesh

West Bengal in Communist hands.

Gujrat: Serious Hindu Muslim riots perpetuated by Mr. Moodi

200 million Untouchables have little or no rights

150 million Muslims are at the lowest rung of the ladder:

By harping on the “failed state” mantra the bigoted Indian commentariat wants to surround “Akhand Bharat”

with Sikkim, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and by sabotaging the integrity and sovereignty of the neighbors India wants to surround itself with a “Warsaw pact” type of string of obsequies and subservient states. Pakistan is big hurdle in India’s hegemonistic policy of Westward expansion. Since the West faced “India” they are unaware of the issues. China and Pakistan working together have arrested the advance of the sepoys of Delhi.

The Naxalites have a force of approximately 15,000 cadres spread across 160 districts in the states of Orissa, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra, Karnataka and West Bengal. They operate primarily in the lawless, dense forested areas of India’s interior, with some estimates saying Naxalites control approximately 10.03 million hectares (about 25 million acres) of forests nationwide. They also have an active campaign to recruit students and other youths to help spread their left-wing extremism into India’s towns and cities. Thus far, however, the Naxalites have not demonstrated the ability to operate in urban areas.

The real failed state is “India” with it’s penury stricken and poverty enveloped pullulating millions sleeping on the sidewalks of its major cities. Bollywood can hide the Indian indigence with a song and dance in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore or Dubai but it cannot fill the hunger of the millions of starving Indian bellies in more than 1000 districts which is under the control of the Naxalites. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naxalite

How poor is India? Some startling statistics have just been released by a forgotten wing of Dr Singh’s own administration, the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector. Around 80 per cent of India’s working population is in this sector. Nearly 80 per cent of this group earns less than 20 rupees a day and 85 per cent of this sub group is trapped in debt. By that usual sleight of hand we have drawn an arbitrary line to define poverty: Rs 12 a day constitutes the poverty line. This encourages the illusion that 77 per cent of India is now above the poverty line. It isn't that much above in any case. Nor is this poverty line index-linked to inflation. Twelve rupees a day buys much less today than it did three years ago. The traditional poverty groups remain where they were: 88 per cent of Scheduled Tribes and Castes, 80 per cent of "Other Backward Classes" and 85 per cent of Muslims belong to the "poor and vulnerable" class.

M. J. Akbar is Editor-in-Chief of the Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle newspapers. He can be reached at mjakbar@asianage.com

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Muslims constitute 25.2 per cent of the population of West Bengal, but have only 2.1 per cent of state government jobs. Kerala, which has almost the same percentage of Muslims (24.7 per cent), has given 10.4 per cent of state government jobs to the community. Assam’s ratio is similar: 30.9 per cent and 11.2 per cent. Bihar does better: it gives 7.6 per cent of state jobs to Muslims, who add up to 16.5 per cent of the population. Andhra Pradesh has the best record: 9.2 per cent of the population and 8.8 per cent of jobs. Uttar Pradesh, despite leaders who claim to be more-secular-than-thou has given only 5.1 per cent of state government jobs to an 18.5 per cent population. The situation is no better when it comes to health and education indices.

The North East India comprises of the seven sister states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram,  Nagaland  and Tripura.  They form part of the   East Himalayan  region which extends from Sikkim eastwards  and   embraces  the  Darjeeling Hills  of West  Bengal

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There is a charge that Lord Radcliff was given a bribe of 6 corore rupees by the Indian National Congress supporters to unfairly/“illegally” award  Ferozepur and Gurdaspur to India. Ferozepur was the only arsenal that was supposed to be given to Pakistan. Gurdaspur was a Muslim majority area and was awarded to India. The boundary line was along the river and Radcliff unnaturally digressed it away from the river to give away Gurdaspur (the only link of India to Kashmir) to India. The implication of the loss of Ferozepur to India was not only traumatic in human terms, but it was devastating to Pakistan in military terms. The reality behind the conspiracy to award  Gurdaspur became evident a year later when Indian troops arrived in Srinagar and then Hari Sing signed over the article of accession to India. The article of accession was never presented to the UN, and according to Alister Lamb has serious discrepancies about dates. The original article of accession has since been lost, if it ever existed.

“Alastair Lamb, Incomplete Partition (OUP, 1998) comes to the conclusion that the instrument of accession was not signed on the date claimed by the Indian government to legitimise its sending of troops into Kashmir. American scholar Stanley Wolpert relates the accession story in his 1996 book, Nehru: A tryst with Destiny, basing it on the lack of concordance between versions of the accession. Wolpert writes that Menon returned from Srinagar on 26 October 'with no Instrument of Accession' to report on the perilous condition in Kashmir to the Defence Committee. Only after Mountbatten had allowed the airlift of Indian troops on 27 October, did Menon and Mahajan set out for Jammu 'to get the Instrument of Accession'. The Maharaja signed the Instrument after the Indian troops had assumed control of the state of Jammu and Kashmir's summer capital, Srinagar. If Wolpert's version is accepted then the 'conspiracy' of legalising the airlift becomes acceptable. Lamb thinks that it is possible that 'certainly Menon, perhaps Mountbatten, perhaps Nehru and perhaps Patel' were involved in this conspiracy. Lamb also claims that the document of accession does not exist.”

There are many in America and the Islamic world that continue to debate whether “law of ‘man’ “, supercedes “law of God”. Many in the Evangelical Red States do not agree in allowing abortion since it violates “law of God”. Many evangelicals want America to be a “Christian state” and may succeed in doing this if present Red colorization of states continue. We saw this happen in India where a communal party was able to rise to power from 2 seats in parliament to 240 seats and eventually form a “Hindu” government. The same happened in Hitler’s Germany and Italy. Voting spawned dictators with devastating consequences for millions of people.

I have tremendous respect for the constitution of my sweet land of liberty. Our constitution has some very strong points. The bicameral legislature patterned on the “Indian confederation” balanced the rights of the individual states vs. federalism and has been emulated around the world.

The government evolved to allow the Supreme Court as an equal and third wheel of government, even though this was never the intent of the original framers of the constitution. Our glorious Constitution was based on the Magna Carta. The most important part of our constitution is chapter 39 taken from the Magna Carta.

“Nullus liber homo capiatur vel imprisonetur aut disseisietur de libero tenemento suo, vel libertatibus, vel liberis consuetudinibus suis, aut utlagetur, aut exuletur, aut aliquo modo destruatur, nec super eum ibimus, nec super eum mittemus, nisi per legale judicium parium suorum, vel per legem terr.”

In English this shows up as “No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed; nor will we not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.”

Contrary to popular belief, the original was not even written in English. It was translated into Latin from the original Arabic. “Trial by jury” was of course an Arab invention popular in Al-Andulusia (Spain).  The Magna Carta was taken from the much despised and misunderstood Shariah Law. See John Maksidi’s research consecrated and published in the North Carolina Law journal (copy can be retrieved or mailed to you).  The Bill of Rights were taken from Ibn Tufail, Ibn Haitam and canonized ("canon’ is from the Arabic word “qanoon") by Hamilton and Jefferson as the Bill of Rights.

I disagree with you on the fact that “the founding fathers set up a constitutional system in which the power of the state flowed from and is dependent on the power of the people”. These particular ideas may work well as candy for 8th grade (his)tory books but it is a bit far removed from reality. For a dose of reality, we need to know that the word “democracy” does not appear in the constitution of the United States.

As historians Charles Austin Beard and Mary Ritter Beard wrote (1939): “At no time, at no place, in solemn convention assembled, through no chosen agents, had the American people officially proclaimed the United States to be a democracy. The Constitution did not contain the word or any word lending countenance to it, except possibly the mention of ‘We the people,’ in the preamble ... When the Constitution was framed, no respectable person called himself a democrat.”

The USA was created as “republic” not a “democracy”. The word democracy was coined in the late 40s to “manufacture consent” for the war against “fascism” and “Nazism” to spread “democracy” and freedom in Europe.

James Madison’s Federalist Paper #10 discusses the issue of Democracies. In it he states: “Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives, as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of Government, have erroneously supposed, that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions and their passions.” We can see from this that Mr. Madison would never have advocated a pure Democracy for his new nation. http://www.wealth4freedom.com/truth/13/DEMvsREPUB.htm

About 370 BC, Plato wrote: “A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally.”

Alexander Hamilton, in debate, said: “Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate government.”

“Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the” Ayn Rand

There are serious flaws in the US constitution, which allows a majority to completely over-rule the rights of minorities or allows a minority opinion to be imposed on the majority if the vote is split. For example, if there are 3 candidates in an election and two get 30% of the vote and the third gets 40% of the vote. Now the person with 40% of the votes gets elected, even though 60% of the people opposed his election. This taken care of on the French and German constitutions by having run-offs.

How about a few quotations demonstrating the disdain our founders held for democracy?
James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 10: In a pure democracy, “there is nothing to check the inducement to sacrifice the weaker party or the obnoxious individual.”

At the 1787 Constitutional Convention, Edmund Randolph said, “ ... that in tracing these evils to their origin every man had found it in the turbulence and follies of democracy.”
John Adams said, “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There was never a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”

׷ Chief Justice John Marshall observed, “Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.”

In a word or two, the founders knew that a democracy would lead to the same kind of tyranny the colonies suffered under King George III

Not to digress to far, but this is very similar of “manufacturing consent” to spread “democracy” in the Middle East, where we support a minority non-pashtun government in Afghanistan and are now in the process of replacing a secular government with a pro-Iranian ayatollah led theocracy in Iraq. In fact all the founding father, Jefferson, Hamilton repeatedly spoke up AGAINST “democracy” as a system of government for the USA.

The American system of government however imperfect that strives to allow people to control the government may work well in literate societies. Our glorious experiment in democracy is surely a beacon to the world and yes it is based on the Judeo-Christian-Islamic traditions.

A mosque is as American as apple pie. Admiral Zeng He a Chinese Muslim and his entourage “Came to American before Columbus” (“1421”). Columbus sailed from Muslim Spain (Al-Anduls) and many of the sailors were Muslim. At least two captains of his ships were Panzone brothers who were Arabs. At least one third of the Africans slaves brought in as slaves were Muslim and demographically more than a third of the current African-Americans are still Muslim. The Cherokee language is based on the Arabic alphabet and the Cherokee headdress resembles Mali head wear. From Moorestown New Jersey, to Islamorada Florida; from Medina Ohio to Lahore Virginia, from Palestine Texas, to Al-Hambra California… more than 500 American towns are named after Muslim cities in the old world. The first mosques in America were not built in the 60s but in the earliest times when African and a Cherokee Muslims prayed in small buildings. From the Islamic architecture Tiffany houses ensconced in the American section of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to Caad Zaan the Rignling Brothers home in Sarasota Florida; from Labanon in New Jersey to California (Khalifa Harunia); from Alabama (Allah um ya) to Talahasse (T Allah Hassee)---Islam is not only visible in America, it is part of our American society and American culture. Islam can be heard in American concert halls in Beethoven’s 9^th symphony or on the Turkish instruments that make up the orchestra. Islam can be tasted in America when you eat a croissant (patterned on the Turkish flag-Crescent) or crepes (from the original Morocoon Crepes). Islamic architecture can be seen in the architecture of 5^th Avenue synagogues, gothic buildings, dome structures of our capitols, and in California homes. Our nation is an amalgamation of many cultures and religions. By opposing a mosque in our midst we are simply hurting the feelings of our fellow countrymen. New mosques are being built not to attract new Muslims, but to allow our existing congested structures. Without a Rockaway mosque the Muslims will pray in older crowded mosques, in basements and in rented warehouses. With a Rockaway mosque Muslims will pray in the open and intermingle with our other American friends. God Bless America.

Our media offers the same stale, retrograde fare that's been used by USSR owned state, semi-state networks for decades. The news leads with the daily antics of the President and insignificant machinations of the legislature followed by celebrity and “human interest” stories and gossip. The Same hackneyed talking heads appear to disparage some other enemy Eurosia or Oceania or Islam. Our Murdock owned British and American media still act like proselytizing missionaries determined to force their views on far flung countries. As “The Nation” commercials depict --our obsequies press does not have the temerity to stand up to the lobbies.

Who has the impudence to show a backbone against those that want perpetual mimetic warfare? The sickly scent of defeat wafting over the Neocon crusade has permeated into the fabric of American airwaves emaciating our freedoms. The resurrection of the Socratic injunctions (against democracy) and Palto’s lectures against women (yes, strange but true) and these series of Peloponnesian wars are debasing our flag, and almost destroying the free republic and the ideals for which it stands. Far away from the apocryphal atoll of sanity and our beloved American Camelot is the acquiescent press the atrophying legislative and a subservient judicial branch. Unless and until our med

ia drops the Neocon jargon it will never be able to unshackle itself from our current Orwellian nightmare.

It is pedagogical to remember and it doesn’t take a CSI pathologist to unearth the fact that the real intention of this well orchestrated and planned smear campaign is to couple "Islam" with a powerful soubriquet, devoid of any analytical content, these icons conjure up images of a universally detested past.