Please De-stabilize the System

I am sick and tired of hearing that if politicians in power even hinted at growing a spine than that will result in destabilizing the fragile system. Which system are we talking about? What is so great about this system anyway that we must guard it with our life? Is this system able to provide flour, public-healthcare, education, electricity, justice, security to the 90% of this country? The same system that hung an elected prime minister? The system that time and again has rolled over at blatant army interventions? The system that gives safe passage to Shaukat Aziz even after it was proven that amongst other scams he was directly involved in the conspiracy to sell Steel Mill for a cost lower than its actual real estate value, what to talk about the actual machinery in the mill? The same system that gives a clean slate to absconders, bank-defaulters, stock exchange con-artists at their heist of more than 120 billion RS under the garb of NRO, but is vigilant enough to sell-off lands of small farmers because they are not able to pay-off 2000 dollars in the given time? Who are we trying to save the system from anyway? Why are we STILL sugar-coating this?

If the fear is that Army is looking for an excuse to take over, a mere sneeze will rattle the house of cards, than why don’t they come clean and tell the people clearly rather than dancing around this. People gave there mandate against army, if its still a threat although ironic because we are not talking about Indian army here, but nevertheless, than shouldn’t someone talk to the people of Pakistan and tell them that ‘listen we know what you want but what you don’t know is that this is a bigger monster than we initially assessed’. And if I am completely off-base in my estimation than please correct me but this rhetoric of ‘we have to be careful about establishing the will of people’. Who the hell do we have to be careful from? Come out and say it, truth will set you free.

It’s quite convenient to condemn the people of Ranchore Line in Karachi who burned the bandits alive. And it’s a convenience that I utilized as well when I first heard the story. It’s sickening, it’s sad, it’s barbaric but that’s what happens in societies where there is unparallel disparity between rich and poor and most importantly it happens in societies where there is rule of might. Army dictatorship projects to its people that in order to be relevant you need to have guns and a lot of them. The mobs burnt the dacoits because this same group had robbed this same neighborhood in broad day light time and again. They were caught in the past and released. We should keep in mind that these same bandits had shot a person at a point blank range and man-handled the women of the household before they were caught and set ablaze.

Not that they are notorious for learning but there is a lesson in it. The society I reckon is reaching its melting point. During French revolution the mobs killed anyone with soft hands. It was a sign for them that the person with soft hands was part of the elite. The fact that these bandits still had to come themselves to rob in this unsophisticated manner, makes me believe that they couldn’t be from elite class, hence were a product of the oppression by the have’s in our country. Maybe one of them had a father who needed money for his cancer operation, maybe they had a sister who needed dowry so she could be married off. I am certain that none of them had a villa in hyde park or sheharzad farms. Having said all of that as a matter of principal it makes me vomit that 3 human beings were burning to their death and there was a mob standing around in circle, this is stuff of dark ages, but than even they didn’t burn people alive, this is sickness and brutality that would shame animals.

Zardari can nag all day long that judiciary wasn’t his issue but the issue was never judiciary anyway. It was status-quo and he can’t say that he didn’t get anti-musharaf vote. He did, so it would be unwise to get in bed with musharaf. And it is exactly what he is doing, or at the least that is what it seems from where we are sitting when amongst other ‘compromises’ (which should be a dirty word now), he appoints Salman ‘the opportunist’ Taseer as governor of Punjab. Why don’t you appoint Sharifuddin Peerzada as Chief Justice and just call it a day already.

In a country where now millions of people don’t have enough to eat, Mr. Nawaz Sharif travels in an entourage of cars worth no less than 20 million dollars. Imran Khan lives alone in a mansion that would easily provide sustenance for 10,000 families for a year. And the kicker is that they are supposed to be the good-guys, the anti-establishment force if you will. It must get confusing, at least I am confused about which horse to back in the race, which to me seems to be fixed, and I hope I am wrong.

One thing I am certain about is ANYONE BUT ARMY. Even if they are all the same, at the least civilians have to come back every 5 years and buy us all a breakfast for there votes, beats the hell out of a self-righteous and a pompous lecture from a uniformed joker on TV.