TELL ME O' SOLDIERS!

GREAT BETRAYAL of Veterans by the Nation, a few questions to SOLDIERS by me in my latest poem----

TELL ME O' SOLDIERS!-----

Promises galore to the soldiers by the leaders and the nation!
When the crisis blow away, soldiers are invariably forgotten ;
Tell me ,O Soldiers! Do you feel you are treated like beggars--
When dream of 'One Rank - One Pension' arrogantly shattered? 

While Unheard, uncared, unsung dies a soldier on a foreign soil,
The dishonest and corrupt enjoy the fruits of his sweat and toil;
Tell me O' Soldiers! Do you think that you die for nation's cause?
Even though corocodile tears would be shed at your family's loss?

A soldier falls to bullets of insurgents in the jungles of North East,
Hardly anyone does care as if he was some kind of a sacrificial beast!
Tell me o' soldiers! How do you think you protect the constitution?
While the leaders you lay your life for, weaken its very foundations! 

A soldier is killed on the snow capped mountains of Siachen glacier,
Grateful nation's duty ends when a citation is placed in his dossier;
Tell me O'soldiers! What is the value of the medal in dead man's life?
In civil street, it has no value, it just gives a sense of false pride! 

A soldier is tasked to carry out search and destroy mission in Kashmir;
Human rights acivists concoct story of rape and shed corocodile tears;
Tell me O' soldiers!Do you hail from "Heavens" without any human vices?
Why do they expect Zero-Error conduct from you even in national crisis?

When the floods come or the earth quake hits,they ask for soldier's aid,
Even when a child falls into a pit, soldiers mustered like household maids;
Tell me O' soldiers! Have you ever thought what bureaucrats about you say?
Soldiering is no big deal and only fools and idiots join armed forces today.

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PRATIBHA TAI , WILL YOU EMULATE HARRY TRUMAN, 43rd PRESIDENT OF USA?

PRATIBHA TAI, WILL YOU EMULATE HARRY TRUMAN--- EX PRESIDENT OF USA? Jul 24 2012  | Views 14 |  Leave a Comment  | Report Abuse Tags: harry truman  It was a good mail forward ---- thought of sharing with you and asking our PRESIDENT PRATIBHA PATIL TO EMULATE HARRY TRUMAN, 43rd PRESIDENT OF USA.             Harry Truman was a different kind of President.  He probably made as many, or more important decisions regarding the history of the USA as any of the other 42 Presidents preceding him.  However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he left the White House.         The only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in, which was in  Independence Missouri .  His wife had inherited the house from her mother and father and other than their years in the White House, they lived their entire lives there.        When he retired from office in 1952 his income was a U.S. Army pension reported to have been $13,507.72 a year.  Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and personally licking them, granted him an 'allowance' and, later, a retroactive pension of $25,000 per year. After President Eisenhower was inaugurated,  Harry and Bess drove home to Missouri by themselves.  There was no Secret Service following them. When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined, stating, "You don't want me.  You want the office of the President, and that doesn't belong to me.  It belongs to the American people and it's not for sale." Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award him the Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept it, writing, "I don't consider that I have done anything which should be the reason for any award, Congressional or otherwise." As president he paid for all of his own travel expenses and food. Modern politicians have found a new level of success in cashing in on the Presidency, resulting in untold wealth.  Today, many in Congress also have found a way to become quite wealthy while en joying the fruits of their offices. Political offices are now for sale (cf. Illinois ). Good old Harry Truman was correct when he observed, "My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician.  And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference! © rajee kushwaha., all rights reserved. Bookmark this pageEdit this blog
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WE HAVE FAITH IN INDIAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM---- IS IT MISPLACED?

            General impression of Indian judicial system now-a-days is : INDIAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM IS HOSTILE TOWARDS COMMON MAN AND GENERAL PUBLIC BUT HOSPITABLE TO RICH, POWERFUL AND DISHONEST.      
      Despite this, still,Indian public have a tremendous faith in Indian judiciary. Is it misplaced? If you ask some legal luminaries, they would rubbish the question. If you persist as to why was this question being asked by the intellectuals and netizens? Luminaries of law dismiss it saying, "Stupid, they are crying babies on the Internet, who in reality , never live in REAL WORLD. They belong to a VIRTUAL WORLD, where everything is UNREAL "       
      Ok, then, I say,"let me put it this way as to why legal system was considered blind?" Even this is dismissed as "out of context." I say with a lot of reservation that I think, probably, I was blind, for failing to see the "obvious". The fact is that our Legal System was NOT only blind, it was deaf and dumb  also. It does not see; does not hear and it does not speak.       
     It has been designed so because what else the "copy cats" can do? It is so because our laws are of a Western Society, copied blindly for Indian 'society of diversity'. There has to be a mismatch and it shows. Now look at it this way : How can you ask people of a hot climate in AFRICA to wear clothes meant for ALASKANS?       
      Same thing is with the Indian laws. They were meant for a different society in different times but brought into India by COLONIAL MASTERS and blindly copied by our "copy cats" and they continue to haunt Indians. Therefore Law has to be blind! You don't agree. It is your prerogative.       
       Ok, let me ask a legal luminary----- we have amongst us, at Sulekha, an honorable retired judge of a high court---- retired Justice Nam Joshi. I am sure, he could illuminate us on this subject. The question to you, sir,is :        DOES OUR JUDICIARY ABIDE BY THIS PRINCIPLE OF LEGAL SYSTEM LITERALLY --- -------LET A HUNDRED CRIMINALS GO SCOT FREE BUT NO INNOCENTS BE PUNISHED.        
       What a principle? But , what happens in reality is actually the absolute opposite of it. I put it this way. A HUNDRED INNOCENTS ARE PUNISHED BEFORE A SMALL TIME CROOK GOES TO JAIL. EVEN THEN, A BIG TIME CROOK HAS NEVER EVER BEEN PUNISHED IN INDIA. Even Afzal Guru and Ajmal Kasab, the convicted murdrers, are enjoying the hospitality of Indian legal system, while small times thieves or even innocents are framed up and thrown into jail for eternity.       
      You saw what happened in Mumbai, some two years back, when MNS got after North Indians from UP and BIHAR----Our reverent judiciary and judges just turned their heads and looked the other way, when ruffians of Raj Thakrey publicly beat Biharis and people of UP. They are designed to act as blindmen. I  can keep on quoting these instances but I am constrained by space here. We are a great democracy.  We remain enmeshed in frills of justice, while big time criminals commit broad day light rape of ' MOTHER INDIA' . Hail ,Indian Democracy! Hail Indian legal system !!      
       Sorry , sorry Nam joshi, sir, the more important question is : SHOULD JUDGES REMAIN BLINDED BY LEGAL PROVISIONS OR SHOULD THEY  LISTEN TO THEIR CONSCIENCE? ( I hope you won't press for Contempt of court---it was just an innocent question by a layman----I am told high court judges have the powers to hold courts anywhere they go-----Wow! all the more reasons they should act as per their conscience!)            You would naturally shoot at me a query : why do you ask this ? Simple, sir! The nation thinks that likes of A.Raja, Suresh Kalmadi, Mayawati and many more are NO INNOCENTS. Why are the courts releasing them under all sorts of funny orders? Don't our honorable dispenser of justice have no conscience? Don't they see what a common man sees?         
       Look at the way Mayawati has been let off in disproportionate assets case? This has been done by the apex court. It asks CBI as to why did it investigate the case when SC did not ask for it? Sir, what is more important the legal technicality or the basic facts which have come out?       The evidence is that her assets rose 50 times from Rs. One Crore to Rs. 50 Crores in one year. And it is now a fact that her assets since 2003 have risen to be around Rs.111 Crores. This is a rise of 100 percent in nine years. What was her source of income? Why do the judges punish poor lame duck government servant of having a flat here or a car there? Don't the judges see that this was not possible through straight means but by exploiting her official position?         Here is what an innocent but a concerned friend give out some details of the case :        Let us see the case of Mayawati. The SC had ordered CBI to register an FIR  and enquire into the Taj Corridor case, on 18 September 2003. On 5 October  2003, the CBI registered two cases, No 18 relating to the Taj Corridor and  No 19 relating to Disproportionate Assets (DA) under the Prevention of  Corruption Act.        The Taj Corridor case against Mayawati failed because CBI did not pursue it after having collected evidence on it for FOUR YEARS, from 2003 to 2007. The central Government changed, so did the principles of Indian legal system. The Governor of UP, TV Rajeshwar, in June 2007, in his 23 page order, had stated that the 17 crore was sanctioned by the Central Govt through the PSU. Therefore, no case was considered against Mayawati.      
      Though the advocates challenged the Governor’s Order,the Special Judge refused to take cognisance, since the CBI kept silent, because only the Law Ministry can permit it to challenge the Governor’s order. The political environment at that time required Mayawati’s support to UPA.    As for the second case, No 19 on DA, Mayawati had challenged the same in the Allahabad High Court. On 22 October 2003, the Court only directed that she should not be arrested till the investigations were over.     
       In addition,the SC itself, when a case was filed for the status report on the cases, on 19 July 2004, gave directions to the CBI, to complete investigations on case No 18( Taj corridor)in 8 weeks and for Case No 19,(the DA case)in three months.    
      According to CBI, the assets of Mayawati increased fifty fold, from one Crore in 2003 to 50 crore in 2007. In 2012, as per her own affidavit filed along with her nomination papers for Rajya Sabha, her wealth stands at 111.64 crores.     A
      fter 9 long years of labour, why should SC quash the FIR itself? I am an ignorant Indian. Why should a technical legality allow an established crime go unpunished but also make waste of the taxpayers money spent on investigation for Nine years? Will some legal luminary on Sulekha apply their minds to answer this simple query? Do I take it that Legal system in India is open to manipulations by the powerful people? To cite a few recent cases, General VK's age row, bail to Kalmadi and A. Raja & Co, non making of PC a co-accused despite all the evidence provided and judicial inaction to take suo-motto notices in number of cases of open fraud, seem to give this impressions !

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SMART WARS AND SMART SOLDIERS OF THE FUTURE!

A TEST BLOG-----SMART SOLDIERS AND SMART WARS OF THE FUTURE! Jul 6 2012  | Views 68 |  Comments  (1)  | Report Abuse        NOTE: all information culled out from newspapers and Internet.         Recently Britain has claimed that it had developed a " smart" fighter jet which won,t need a pilot . This aircraft would be commissioned into British air force by 2013. It would revolutionize the future wars, whether by " regular" or "irregular" soldiers----- read non- state actors or the terrorists. This invention is nothing but a further advancement on DRONE or PTA ( Pilotless Aircraft) technology, which is in use in Afghanistan. It has given a new dimension to future wars.           "Dumb Soldiers" move on! Days of FRONLINE BRAVERY and GALLANTARY are over. We have the SMART SOLDIERS now fighting a future war with NO "REAR" and NO" FRONT". Have the days of uniformed soldiers in olive green, monkey dancing behind enemy lines or knocking out enemy's war potential, come to an end? It might NOT seem immediately so but the advent of pilotless vehicles and smart ammonutions, along with CYBER SOLDIERS, the very dimensions of war has transformed tremendously. There is a total shift in war-making and fighting. Therefore the days of battle field bravery and gallantary are over. Move away award-seeking Generals and fake GURUS of Victories. Smart soldiers are here ---thousands of miles away from the battle fronts------to deliver the knock out blow to the enemy.            Pilotless vehicles can be guided and controlled by smart soldiers as they control NASA Flights to celestial bodies, like Mars, Venus and Saturns. Loaded with adeaquate weapons with accurate description of the target , they would create havoc in enemy lines. There would be no place to hide.           Glimpses of it we saw in Iraq War when Saddam Hussein's DUMB ARMY fell like nine pins to USA's Synchronised army. Iraq war had removed the distinction between "FRONTS" and "REARS" of the war. We are also witnessing the same in Afghanistan and iraq, where COUNTER-TERRORISM is being fought by these REMOTE SOLDIERS. These rear echelon soldiers are the REAL HEROS of Modern war. The use of DRONES would explain the shape of things to come. I am providing you a link, as I can not post the video, watch how SMART SOLDIERS smash their enemy.   READ BELOW BEFORE OPENING THE ATTACHMENT------ The female drone controller is actually flying the aircraft. Her flight instruments screen is located in the upper left of the lower central large monitor screen. The other screens are views from the drone itself.The control booths or rooms are made in Garland , TEXAS by Raytheon .For non-pilots, these controllers are in Nevada and each is flying a drone on the other side of the world thousands of miles away, in the combat zone in Iraq and Afghanistan . Their left hand is on the throttle controlling the drone's engine. The right hand is flying the plane. All the buttons used to fly the drone are located on the   joystick. The controller never removes his or her hand from the throttle.Kill a Taliban leader then go home for lunch or dinner! Welcome to the new world. Imagine how big the communication pipe has to be to pump all the data necessary to perform these complicated tasks through it on the other side of the world in REAL TIME. It is not a modem you or I will ever get our hands on at Radio Shack !!! This is modern warfare.Today's headline: Missiles fired fromNevada controlled drone aircraft kill Taliban leader in Afghanistan .Now watch how   www.youtube.com/watch and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSY3VxdSz5s&feature=related   An unmanned aerial combat drone developed by Boeing has successfully completed its first flight at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Called the Boeing Phantom Ray, the aircraft is designed to support several potential missions including surveillance and attack.Boeing says its Phantom Ray flew for 17 minutes, reaching an altitude of 7,500 feet and a speed of 178 knots, or 205 miles per hour.The Unmanned Aerial System, or UAS, has been in development since mid-2008, and the first test flight on April 27 was designed to demonstrate its basic airworthiness. Additional flights, ultimately taking the UAS to 40,000 feet at nearly the speed of sound, will take place over the next few weeks. The Phantom Ray has not been developed for any specific mission and Boeing is testing it at its own expense. The company says it will serve as a platform for a variety of scenarios involving reconnaissance, strike or electronic attack. Drones similar to the Phantom Ray have been in use over Afghanistan and Pakistan in recent years. The aircraft's delta wing shape allows it to evade radar and its deeply embedded engine reduces heat and noise making it very difficult to detect. The aircraft is flown by an operator on the ground via a computer, programmed to tell the UAV where to fly, when to deploy its payload, and when to return to base. At 36 feet long with a wingspan of 50 feet, it is also designed for inflight refuelling.   © rajee kushwaha
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