Reservoir Dogs

The Disrupt India Agenda:

History hangs on tiny chances. In the last 3 days Arvind Kejriwal blew his chances. They say never write off a politician but AK was never a politician. He was and is a street-thug parading in the mask of a politician as we shall see. I have written this long back and it’s worth recalling frequently: “My favourite line for deceivers has been “the mask and make-up of Chachi 420 wasn’t meant to last forever”. This mask and make-up is now peeling away faster than expected. I doubt AK ever wanted to be a CM. He probably wanted to create a revolution and be a high authority like a Lokpal or a CJI (He can’t be CJI though) or the CIC by which he could dispense instant justice, haul anyone before his court and sentence anyone without proper hearing. He wants to play Dirty Harry”. The other objective currently is to get a few seats in LS and dictate terms to everyone else. That’s right, this guy thinks he’s such a super authority that he can rush in like a storm-trooper anywhere, agitate and do dharnas anywhere and even think he is Kejri Almighty that CMs must give him audience at the drop of his topi. Let’s get past this nonsense of AAP and Arvind Kejriwal’s Gujarat drama first.

This Kejri Almighty went to Gujarat with a bunch of his goons and some assorted bunch of his Delhi-media rogues in a cavalcade without declaring his programmes or routes. After elections were announced on March 5 AK was intercepted in North Gujarat. That was trigger enough for this street thug to dance synchronised with chest-beating by the media. Here’s CNN-IBN screaming murder:

Every second and minute the morons on CNN-IBN, NDTV, Timesnow, AajTak, ABPNews, HeadlinesToday and all the other channels were quick to scream Narendra Modi had a hand in halting Kejri Almighty’s innocent drive through Gujarat where his “Boss” had asked him to do an audit of the development in the state. Lie BIG, retract small; that’s the principle these liars on news channels have always followed. None bothered to check facts with anyone. A few hours later they did find that AK was neither detained nor arrested by anyone. It was just that he was asked by the Collector concerned to advise him elections were announced and Model Code of Conduct was in force and AK would need necessary permits to carry out political activities. Predictably, this wasn’t headline anywhere but tweeted by NDTV next day (March 6). But the false news on March 5 was the exact drama that AK and his goons had desired and planned for. Within the hour SMSes were circulated to AAP members in Delhi and other places (claiming AK arrested) to assemble and protest at the BJP office in Delhi. Then followed the most unruly scenes with violence, from AAP members led by Ashutosh and Shazia Ilmi, at the BJP HQ in Delhi and other places like Lucknow and Allahabad. The BJP members retaliated too before police managed to disperse the AAP goons. Take a look at some of the pics:

The pic at top left should be of particular interest. A man called Rajmohan Gandhi, (in red box) alleged to be grandson of MKGandhi, who blabbers peace at every forum watches like a statue as his AAP goons pelt stones at the BJP office. These are the sick morons who preach in the name of Gandhi. And MoronShri Ashutosh even had the gall to say Delhi police was taking orders from Modi. The one below gets even better. The goons of AAP put up a pic on Facebook claiming Gujarat police beat up their goondas:

The text and pic in the red box is a comment which exposes the fact that the pic was from an assault on some journalist in J&K. Certainly, these AAPtards must be worse than morons if they wanted people to believe that the police handling AK in Gujarat were riot-squads in helmets. Besides, AK was halted near a highway and not inside a town with small streets and closed shops. These are the lies that AK and his goons have been peddling all along. AK’s team even broke the windshield of their own car to play victim and blame others of violence. Then on March 7, frustrated at not finding much to crib about in Gujarat, AK tried to bulldoze his way into the CM’s office in Gandhinagar with a list of questions. Naturally, the demand for a meeting was denied. The CM is not obligated to meet thugs who believe they can barge into the CM’s office anytime they want. Not one single news channel called this behaviour wrong. Not one! On the contrary there are morons at NDTV and CNN-IBN asking why Modi couldn’t meet AK. This and other incidents of street-goondaism by AK, Ashutosh, Shazia, his goons like Somnath Bharti and others end any claim of being a political party. It is now clear they have only ONE agenda: DISRUPT INDIA.

Who sponsors this agenda, who are AK’s handlers will come to public light in due course of time. But as far as I am concerned they are no more a valid political outfit. To top off hypocrisies AK flew from Jaipur to Delhi on March 7 in a private jet (pic of the aircraft model used) claiming no other flight was available (which doesn’t appear to be true). A man who has been asking others about private jets not only takes a joyride in a private jet but it’s also paid for by the media group India Today. The nonchalance in these hypocrisies by Kejri Almighty is simply stunning. Greater moral and financial corruption and hypocrisy cannot be found in political circles. AK’s bogus claims on Gujarat are not even worth talking about. His AAP member Meera Sanyal’s tweets of the last 2 years put paid to his lies. And that is that!

Reservoir Dogs:

Like I stated earlier, AK and AAP are no more a valid political party for me. They are a bunch of mercenaries with an agenda which largely seems to be to stop Narendra Modi becoming PM and generally disrupting India. It reminds me of Quentin Tarantino’s “Reservoir Dogs” (Naturally, remade in Bollywood as “Kaante”). Reservoir Dogs is the story of six criminals given the assignment of stealing diamonds. But the story is not about the robbery, it’s about what the six criminals do before and after the robbery and how they interact with each other and others outside their group. As time passes the distrust grows between each other and a cop runs into them as well. The movie has one of the most viciously violent scenes where one of the criminals chops off the cop’s ear while rocking to the gentle strain of a song. In the end they kill each other and only one gets away.

The story of AK, his sidekicks and AAP is a story before and after becoming a political party and becoming MLAs. The before story is that of an anti-corruption crusader and the after story is that of pathetic lumpens.

Arvind Kejriwal, Yogendra Yadav, Somnath Bharti, Ashutosh, Shazia Ilmi and Manish Sisodia are the six faces of AAP who are acting like Reservoir Dogs. Stunts and violence almost every week! The media cameras are on standby mode for their antics. So what exactly does Reservoir Dogs mean? Tarantino had an explanation that he had heard a French movie name sounding as reservoir dogs (Au Revoir Le Enfants). The other explanation often credited to QT is that in his hometown there was a reservoir where dogs hung around and fought others to quench their thirst. But most critics found that it was a combination of the French movie and another movie called “Straw Dogs”. So Straw Dogs (similar to the term “Straw man”) was the closest explanation. It explains it quite well. Simply put “A straw man is a common type of argument and is an informal fallacy based on the misrepresentation of the original topic of argument. To be successful, a straw man argument requires that the audience be ignorant or uninformed of the original argument”. The corruption-fighter argument is gone. The stop-Modi, distrupt-India is the after-agenda. Therefore, commonly, the term “Straw Dogs” is explained thus:

At the India Today Conclave on March 7, for which AK rushed from Jaipur to Delhi in the chartered flight, the most resounding slap came from none other than Neeraj Kumar, the former police commissioner of Delhi (who would likely have a lot of pent up anger having had to face the brunt of the street actions of AK & Co.). Watch the video (1.32 mins):

The audience voted on AK’s discussions and a majority did not see him as a politician. That is what I said in the beginning, AK is a street-thug parading as a politician. Remember, at such gatherings audiences are generally kind to the guest, as they should be. But I doubt anyone sees AK as a serious politician or AAP as a serious political party anymore. Their leaders are reservoir dogs who are on an agenda as explained before. Time will tell what exactly the agenda was, who is sponsoring it and who is funding it. Because it sure doesn’t look like these guys care for India going by their policies on Naxals, Maoists, Kashmir and many other issues. That apart, they don’t seem to have any political vision or economic vision. The only skill these reservoir dogs seem to possess is to agitate, cause violence, insult everyone else and bark loudly calling everyone else corrupt. That drama-sale reached an end on March 7. It won’t sell anymore. 

Gangrape, Subhash Tomar & Monkey-Fisted Media

Monkeys are usually known to be intelligent creatures. That is, except when they’re hungry or greedy. In the old days they would trap a monkey with a cage containing a banana with a hole large enough for a monkey's hand to fit in, but not large enough for a monkey's fist (clutching the banana) to pull out. These were used to trap and catch monkeys that lack the intellect to let go of the banana. After the Delhi Gang-rape incident, there were monkeys trapped everywhere; some from the GOI, some from the Delhi govt and some from the Delhi Police. Nothing unusual about that, govts and police are often caught in monkey-traps of their own making. The Gang-rape, the protests and the death of Constable Subhash Tomar had everyone trapped. Some from the media were trapped in a different monkey-trap; Twitter and Social Media. They never learn! They never learn that Twitter and Social Media are made up of unforgiving people with REM. That’s Random Excess Memory. The monkey in the pic is probably asking a friend “Oh God, how do I pull out of this one”?

The media always expects people will forget but that doesn’t happen in social media. The monkeys keep making the same mistake. Before the current series of incidents over the Gang-rape we have had quite a few incidents this year. There was the Guwahati molestation case with some channels airing videos without blurring some images. There was the Assam riot and killings when Rajdeep Sardesai fell into the monkey trap of tyranny of distance, of deaths being lower than Gujarat and lack of OB vans. Rajdeep did apologise and, to his credit, both he and his channel have done a lot better in handling the present crises. Following that we had the Azad Maidan protests by secular and civilised people. And yes, we had the exodus of North-East people from Pune, Hyderabad and Bangalore. The Bangalore exodus peaked, of all days, on Independence-Day. Fond memories, eh?

During the Bangalore exodus most of us relied on tweets from the ground, from the railway stations. The media, of course, didn’t have a clue what was going on. During that episode the Karnataka Home Minister even rushed to the station to pacify people who were fleeing out of fear unlike the present crisis where ministers were floating on media channels. So in steps our heroine to warn us all idiots. These two tweets from Barkha Dutt are Gyaan from the upper most peaks of the Himalayas. First she says “Think”! Think before you use words and don’t add to rumours. Ahem! You need to be “propah” at all times on your choice of words. Did you learn? In the next one she says “please do not add to the panic and rumours, let’s be assuring, calm and sane”. Did you get it? You see, nobody learns, least of all Barkha. Having dipped her hand in that crisis she went on a tweet-spree that night. She tweeted about Union Ministers calling the Karnataka CM, that there was no exodus, Assamese were going on vacation, that all that was rumour-mongering. Truth is she didn’t really appear to have any facts at all.

Facts? Did someone mention facts? Oops! Only a few people have a monopoly on facts. Don’t they? Barkha believes she is one of them.  She doesn’t allow ‘imagination’ to interfere with her reporting or tweeting, does she? It’s a small matter, though, that her nonsense about “Lumpens among protesters” was demolished and her hypocrisy exposed in my earlier post. But following the discussion of lumpens, the next day there were indeed some lumpen elements deputed to the venue of protests. They managed to ignite violence, damage property and cause injuries. Nobody is in doubt which group these lumpens belonged to and which political party may have engaged them. It is after this round of violence (On December 24) that we heard about a Constable being killed in the violence.

Victory to GOI! Now that there was violence and somebody had been killed, the govt had the moral ground to state that the protests had been hijacked by political elements. Oh! Not just the govt, even NDTV headlined “Student protests hijacked by violence”. Who reported the constable first? Oh yeah! It was Barkha Dutt. She tweeted that a constable (Subhash Tomar) had died as a consequence of the violence. Fact? Fact-checked? Nope! So Barkha deletes that tweet and a while later tweets that the constable was critically injured and taken to hospital. Remember, she is careful in her choice of words; she is avoiding rumours and trying not to create panic and maintain sanity. Just like her Bangalore episode, right? Following her tweet, her channel also picks up her news-feed and keeps shouting “Cop critically injured” by protesters. Truth is: Not one media house or reporter, least of all Barkha, had any shred of evidence that the cop was injured by protesters. This is how the monkey traps itself. And having trapped itself it can’t let go of the banana. Read this post by SudhirKumar on the whole episode and these storified-tweets of media actors by BarbarIndian on the callous and unprofessional reporting by them.

On the morning of December 25, the constable, Subhash Tomar was reported dead around 6.30am. Suddenly, the govt announced a state funeral. Imagine death, post-mortem, organising police groups from protest sites can all be time consuming tasks. But hey, our govt and Delhi police are so hyper efficient they managed it all and by 4pm in the afternoon Subhash Tomar was cremated with full state honours. Believable? They just didn’t imagine someone else will turn up with a story. An eyewitness! Yogendra Tomar (in pic), a journalism student of BR Ambedkar College, who was also involved in protests but returning from a hospital saw Subhash Tomar collapsing. So he and another injured protester (returning from head injury treatment), Paolin, helped the constable and tried to revive him. Two other cops were with them. By evening on Dec.25, after Subhash was cremated, Yogendra was on many TV channels, including NDTV-Hindi, giving his version of events. He confirmed nobody attacked Subhash and he collapsed while running. The lady who was helping, Paolin, confirmed his story. Now take a look at this picture (The video is also available on Youtube):

What do you see? We can see Subhash lying on the ground, two cops and the two eye-witnesses trying to help revive him. The cop’s shoe has been removed. There’s a bystander in the left pic. Clear enough! Now, observe closely. There’s some smoke (probably tear gas) about an estimated 300 metres from this group. That seems to be some conflict in progress. But look around Subhash and the group. Does it look like it was a conflict zone? There are no broken items like bangles, watches or spectacles. There are no visible drops of blood anywhere. No pools of water or plastic water bottles. There are no stones or rocks around the cop. There are no shoes or slippers strewn around like you would find in a conflict zone. No blunt objects (with which the media claims Subhash was attacked with). No tear gas shells. There’s nothing! Even the Youtube video I mentioned above only shows some mild debris strewn around. Some may be regular stuff on the streets that you find and some may be from a minor clash at the most. Paolin also told CNN-IBN that when the shirt of Subhash was opened there were no injuries on his chest but it was full of sweat. Cold sweat?

Therefore the theory that Subhash fell after being attacked seems pretty dubious. And there is no evidence whatsoever anywhere to indicate it. Also, the body movement, the slouching or falling head of Subhash has not been explained anywhere convincingly. However, during the course of the day on December 26, it did not stop Barkha Dutt from her tweet-spree trying to link the death of Subhash Tomar to various unrelated issues, even in Kashmir to cloud the issue. NDTV and other channels continued to maintain he had died due to injuries sustained on the field. The hospital where Subhash was taken does not mention any external injuries. It is quite amazing that in an attack in a conflict with a mob, a person suffering injuries leading to death can completely escape any external injury. But even without the post-mortem report the police spokesman mentioned yesterday morning that Subhash had chest, stomach and neck injuries and then stated he could make comments only after a post-mortem report. All these conflicting reports only indicate either a massive bungling or a massive cover-up. Last evening, not a single caller on Times Now believed the story dished out by the media or the govt.

For someone who sermonises from the Himalayas, Barkha herself started this whole nonsense of speculation over Subhash Tomar. Her channel then continued to tom-tom the story that Subhash died as a consequence of injuries. They neither had any evidence nor any convincing report to rely on. Barkha didn’t have any fact-checking done either when she tweeted the cop was killed (and she claims few people have the guts for facts only). Or was it that he had already died on the streets when she tweeted? Did her reporter tell her that? Barkha, as is her political persuasion, doesn’t fail to point a finger at the Right Wing over the post-mortem report in her series of tweets. And after all her speculation through tweets she states she won’t tweet anymore about Tomar. Haha! Bravo! Is there anything that she had still left ‘untweeted’?

In all of this what one misses to observe is that collectively, NDTV and similar channels have more or less given a clean-chit to Sheila Dikshit and the Congress for events that happened in Delhi and the crimes that have made it a rape-capital. It’s almost as if Sheila Dikshit is an angel who is now a victim who is complaining like everyone else. It should be clear on hindsight that the media monkey that dipped its hand into the cage got stuck with the banana. Their lies and spins stand exposed once again. Only thing left untweeted is “Mission Accomplished”! Someone led them to that trap and you can guess who. In the meantime, with all the noise about Subhash Tomar, that 23-year old Gang-rape victim has been reduced to another comma in the story.