Blog of Laughter and Forgetting (Few Hundred Words of Garbage)

Tuesday, November 23, 2004

Let's Imagine a President! Or an Opposition Leader!

Let's imagine a President
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Let's imagine a President who didn't have any security cover, and people could straight walk into him bedroom, and this when he was trying to get his reign over a civil war in his country.

Let's imagine a President, who would return to his residence after a day of hectic schedule and tour, to find that a farmer from a remote village had been waiting for long hours to meet him, and then finding that neither his chopper nor his chaufeur was available that night, would drive his jeep 200 kms to meet the farmer, and to listen to the farmer!

Let's imagine that such a president existed, and was not assassinated?

We all know this cannot happen: no crazy guy, however crazy he may be, would ever do this; it's even more unlikely to happen, if the guy's a President!

We all know, this is all fantasy, and I'm hellucinationg; but please please, just for the fun of it, let's imagine this!

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Let's now imagine an opposition leader
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Let's imagine another crackpot, an opposition leader, who ran out of his country, because he knew he would be assassinated if he stayed within his country. To be more articulate, let's suppose, he had been imprisoned on charges of murder and subversion, and had then been sentenced to death. This had then been commuted into exile.

Let's imagine: he returned to his country three years later.

Let's imagine: he wished to return to suffer alongside his people and to appeal directly to the then ruling dictator to step down and seek a peaceful regime change and reformation.

Let's imagine: he wrote: "I have returned on my free will to join the ranks of those struggling to restore our rights and freedoms through non-violence.I seek no confrontation. I only pray and will strive for a genuine national reconciliation founded on justice."

Let's imagine: this fella then decides to return to his country because of various reasons and he knows this could well be his last trip back home.

Let's imagine: he knew that he would perhaps be killed by Government Agents.

Let's imagine: he's in a plane, next to a TIME reporter, and then he slips a bulle-proof vest uder his shirt and says, "If they're going to shoot me on my chest, I'll be alive; but if instead they shoot at my head, I'm dead." (sic).

Let's imagine: within minutes of his boarding down at the airport, he was shot and killed by government special agents, on the tarmac.

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Let's now imagine that both of these happened NOT in the Civilized, Western world, but rather in the Third World, that too in a single Country.

What the hell am I talking? Am I high on dope or LSD? Or some other crazy stuff? I bet, you all agree with me that such things can NEVER happen!

Well, actually all of these DID HAPPEN!!

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