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Your comment is disingenuous and obfuscates the logic of the issue. The combo of the NRC+CAA ensures that Indians without papers are liable to be in internment
by goombastic 7y ago
Your comment is disingenuous and obfuscates the logic of the issue.
The combo of the NRC+CAA ensures that Indians without papers are liable to be in internment camps. If you don't have papers, you are declared an illegal. There are a lot of Indians who don't have formal documentation. There is also a lot of corruption that makes it possible for officials to reject formal documents. You then get declared illegal.
Once in an internment camp, you cant go anyplace else. If you are a muslim, you don't have the option of getting out of the camp at all. if you are a poor Indian or a dissenter of any sort, you will face the same logic and all documents you produce will be deemed unfit.
A single internment camp costs 40Crores to make. To house just the northeast's so called illegals, you need close to 25K crores. This is a government that has just recently said no to primary education budgets for lack of cash. You think they have the budgets for large scale concentration camps? No. They are building up for a pogrom.
This is straight up Nazi policy.
The other question I keep asking is how is this a legitimate government if all the voters themselves have been designated illegal/noncitizens by default?
Last question and a prediction, why is the government transferring the workload of proving citizenship on to the population? This is to make people protest. Given enough protests, they will flip the policy to say, "hear hear, no, we will find the illegals for you, no need to stand in queues." Once they do that, they will form squads and informers like in Nazi Germany and hunt down the "unwanted."
- quantummkv 7y agoIt's not a straight up Nazi policy. Can't we have a good faith approach and see. It what you are saying does happens then we can revolt. And we would. But would it bad to if only the good happens? What's wrong with a bit of optimism?
- pintxo 7y agoOptimism does not mix well with detention camps.
- quantummkv 7y agoIt worked for us when throwing out the Brits in the 40's. So why shouldn't it work now if required?
- nl 7y agoLet me get your argument straight here: You are saying that because the British tried it and it didn't work that makes it ok to try again? Are you hoping for failure or success here? Anyway, to address your question: Because then the British were a small minority, exhausted by WW2 attempting to oppress a large majority who clearly had natural justice on their side. This time it is a large majority attempting to victimise a smaller minority for a reason which historically has led to wars, genocides and mass killing.
- goombastic 7y agoMaybe revolting withing detention camps isn't a good idea?
- mlnj 7y agoBy that point the protesters are already labelled as illegal and demonized by everyone else.
- quantummkv 7y agoHow about revolting IF and when they try to put you in camps?
- mlnj 7y agoBecause the past actions have left us with no faith in its abilities to act responsibly. In November 2016 the government just woke up one night and declared the highest denominations of Indian currency as illegal tender (not just not legal, but possession of it beyond a set date would be treated with jail time). This was apparently to curb black money. Everyone knew that black money was almost never stored in cash, but in land and real estate. Tonnes of evidence then came up how BJP candidates themselves distributed boxes full of newly monetized notes to the ones they favor. This was during a time when the common man stood in queues at cash points to withdraw their own money only to be rationed a fraction of it due to distribution problems with the newly minted notes. The effects of this gimmick was the obliteration of the small sector economy throughout the country and is now the backbone of financial crunch the country is facing. Also it completely failed to nail the black money problem it was proposed to solve. Widespread corruption and the BJP candidates themselves made sure that their rich friends cleaned up the money (I got all kinds of acquaintances who did). We do not live just in the present. My optimism with the current government has eroded by their actions in the past. When such laws alienate an entire community of people by their religion (or skin color or economic status) and we are talking about holding them in detention camps, do we keep calm and let the atrocities begin to unfold or do we protest?
- nl 7y agoOptimism about religious discrimination of any type seems like a bad thing.