Indian MSM - The First Line Of Defence For The Corrupt

Honey Bee – that’s the name of an alleged ISI mole in the Indian security establishment that helped plan the 26/11 attacks according to the authors of the book “The Siege”. The writers mention this information was claimed by a Pakistani Major. After this book was released November 2013, then Home Minister Sushil Shinde also stated the GOI would inquire into this. Ever heard of any inquiry? So recently when about seven people were arrested for stealing documents from the Petroleum Ministry our media, particularly TimesNow, was ranting against the BJP instead of asking why so many moles floated around for so long. The Petroleum Minister claims papers moved out freely during the previous Congress govt. Although it could be a political claim I find that quite believable. In the coming days more revelations and more moles and spies may be found. One of the arrested thieves is a journalist. Any surprise?

The media didn’t ask many questions to Congress or its allies but were seeking names from the BJP. Spokies of thuggish, corrupt parties were screaming as if they were innocent of crimes during their rule of harbouring pimps, brokers, dalals and extra-constitutional foreign stooges. I have long maintained this:

“The Indian media is the first line of defence for the corrupt”.

Two episodes in the last few days reinforce my belief. The Congress party had turned govt into a termite-infested house where all kinds of brokers and pimps had a feast. Apart from the recent thieves caught by CCTV at the petroleum ministry there have been Radias and Barkhas even fixing cabinet berths. If you look at it another way, the Congress-govt was as good as an Apex body of corrupt NGOs that had a free run. SoniaG herself had an NGO called “NAC”. I had earlier written about Congress being “A profitable NGO”. Funds flowed from all over to corrupt, anti-national NGOs. Funds flowed from all over to political pimps who paraded as social and environment activists. Funds and benefits flowed to corrupt editors and media houses that were permanently in losses. Many of them are up against the Modi govt for one strong reason:

Here’s the first thing. The recent episode of Teesta Setalvad’s bail cancellation and the urgency with which the SC heard her petition should tell us how many powerful forces are behind corrupt operators. Half a dozen lawyers rushed to the SC. Is Teesta in anyway innocent? I don’t think anyone, not even her lawyers, believes that. This riot-money scavenger was slammed by the SIT on Gujarat riots as having doctored affidavits and floating fake cases. She and her husband ran NGOs that were actually a political conspiracy to malign Modi on behalf of the Congress rather than serving riot victims. According to this moron her embezzlement cases are nothing but accounting issues:

The media is the first line of defence for the corrupt. The entire media batted for Teesta. Some “Intellectual morons” even asked ModiSarkar not to harass her as if the Centre is prosecuting this case. Shekhar Gupta, the perfect Delhi pimp just echoes others like Rajdeep Sardesai and Barkha Dutt. Remember, Rajdeep is the street-thug who asked “Where is the fraud?” in the National Herald case against the Chinese Gandhis. Teesta is the tip of the criminal NGO-media complex that has long protected Congress crimes and tried their best to defeat Modi in the elections. This Gupta who thinks embezzlement is merely an accounting issue once serially trolled Kiran Bedi on the front pages of IE over her claiming business fares (offered by her sponsors) while travelling economy to generate additional savings for her NGO. For these shameless media pigs any crime from a member of their pigsty is condonable while others are culpable for small travel bill fudging.

Was it necessary to arrest Teesta? YES! The answer can be found in the court judgement. Teesta and her husband stay in Mumbai while operating their scams in Gujarat. When there were criminal complaints they got anticipatory bail from Bombay HC. When Bombay HC cancelled bail they ran to SC claiming Bombay HC had no jurisdiction. SC asked the duo to approach Gujarat HC. All this while they did not cooperate with the investigation and did not provide any documents sought by the Gujarat police. They kept dodging the investigation. Finally when the Gujarat court cancelled their bail plea they ran to SC again. Now, had Teesta and her husband cooperated with the police there would have been no need to arrest them at all. But they did not. On the scare-mongering by her lawyers and the media the SC even changed the Bench for the final hearing of her plea. This particular episode is a mockery of our judicial systems. Nevertheless, SC asked the duo to cooperate and submit documents failing which their bail would be cancelled.

It’s a simple question – If you were accused of fraud and embezzlement and if you happened to be clean, would you rush to clear your name with documents and evidence or would you dodge the police? The conduct of Teesta and her husband ever since the allegations surfaced should be enough circumstantial evidence of their culpability.

I have linked the Gujarat court order and if you go through it, the financial transactions and pilferage is nothing short of shocking. Foreign organisations donating so much money which again went to personal accounts of Teesta and her husband instead of stated causes is enough to nail her. There were earlier reports that she splurged on wine, jewellery and personal shopping with this money. Has to be a lot of wine I think, because the Teesta-duo has grown into fat cats. One of the sweet-smelling lawyers of Teesta, Indira Jaising, also runs an NGO that gets funds from Ford Foundation. The amounts have no explanation or why Ford would fund a legal-services-NGO without any benefits. I guess Ford is one of those Saints of the Congress’s lost causes. The amounts are stunning:

The best part is that this scumbagini Jaising compared Teesta’s embezzlement with the suit gifted to and worn by Modi. All of Lutyens free-floating pimps. The media has to defend the corrupt because people like Teesta collaborated with their anti-Modi campaign and a lot of worms will crawl out if she’s interrogated and prosecuted. There is only one outcome I can estimate for Teesta: a definite conviction. Let’s move on to the second thing.

Many will recall how people like Shekhar Gupta, Rajdeep Sardesai, Sagarika Ghose and assorted pimps tried to tarnish ex-CAG Vinod Rai when he exposed 2G and Coalgate scams. Rajdeep went to the extent of reporting internal conflicts at the CAG office over the 2G loss reports of 1.76 lakh crores. Little does the corrupt Rajdeep understand that in any auditing organisation there may be differences over way entries and transactions are treated. However, the final word rests with the boss. See how Rajdeep at CNN-IBN then ran a serial campaign to tar him. Rajdeep implies one of the auditors questioned Rai after his report was released. It doesn’t work that way but anything to tar an honest man. So too in the case of Coalgate where the CAG projected a loss of 1.86 lakh crores. The defenders of the corrupt were again quick to tar the man:

The only #Porngate one sees every day and night is on the channels where Rajdeep & Co work. Nonsensical debates, lack of verifiable facts and invariable defence of the corrupt Congress and its allies. Nothing is surprising. There isn’t any domain of govt operation that the Congress corruption hadn’t touched. Yet the media kept tarring those who exposed the corruption. The man who blew the whistle on Coalgate was not any media house (as TOI grandly claims in one of its reports) but a BJP member; Hansraj Ahir. The current round of coal auctions are set to cross 10Lakh crores according to progress reports and govt estimates. If anything, Vinod Rai was rather conservative about the losses and the scam and not exaggerating. The faces of the media scumbags who defend the corrupt deserve to be blackened:

There’s another report on CNN-IBN about serious security lapses at the currency printing press which was suppressed by the Congress govt. It also states the supplier of the currency paper was neither suspended nor penalised. Who knows, had Rajdeep still been in CNN-IBN even this report may have been suppressed. People remember how the Cash4Votes sting was suppressed by him to protect the Congress.

The moles, pimps and brokers in the govt corridors didn’t surface suddenly. They have been floating around for the last 10 years along with corrupt, anti-India NGOs. Many equally corrupt editors have enriched themselves through political pimping. Some of these editors still remain the first line of defence for the corrupt Congress and their cronies. But there are good signs things may change.

Vir Sanghvi - In Defense Of The Corrupt

By Ram Valmiki

It’s very important to know the personal opinions of journalists as that is what influences how they report events or news.  There are many in Indian MSM who are incapable of reporting without their personal biases. Vir Sanghvi is just one of them. It is not a big secret, at least among netizens or as they put it “Internet Hindus” that VS is biased towards Congress and Government. In his recent posts on his blog titled “Don’t blame media, Mr. Kejriwal” and “How the govt lost its way, and its face” he so openly defends the corrupt government and tries to peddle the lie that it’s actually the government that brought out the scams into public. The title chosen for his second post is very misleading.

“I am prepared to agree with Kejriwal when he says that the Shanti Bhushan CD was part of a conspiracy. We know now that the CD was faked and the refusal of the Delhi Police to recognise that it was a cut-and-paste job suggests a certain level of official complicity even if the CD itself was made by non-governmental sources”

Yes Mr VS, it does suggest government conspiracy but how many from your MSM has really taken on government about this issue. The very idea that there exists possibility that a government can conspire against the citizens is disturbing. VS and MSM should have concentrated on this area rather than going behind the Team Anna. Just because CD was made by non-governmental sources does not in any way lessen the sin if those sources were prompted to do so by government?

“ Unless Arvind Kejriwal can somehow convince us that the government hypnotised Kiran Bedi into filing fake reimbursement claims, it is hard to see how this is part of an official conspiracy. The most he can suggest is that official agencies helped in unearthing the evidence. But if this is proof of a government conspiracy then surely he is also a co-conspirator with the government when he makes statements based on reports issued by such government bodies as the CAG. Just because the government digs up accurate information – as the CAG did in the telecom scam – and this information is used by the media and concerned citizens it does not follow that there is any conspiracy”

I could have never imagined an experienced editor and journalist would be able to dole out crap logic ever if I had not come across these posts. It’s really amazing that though “official agencies helped in unearthing the evidence”, what is more surprising is these “official agencies”  one fine day had a dream and then went on to dig stuff of selected people who happen to be criticizing the government.  I am not aware of any complaint against Bedi that led to “official agencies” to investigate and dig up the mess of Bedi. If VS is aware of any such complaint, I would like to know because it’s really frightening to know that “official agencies” can unearth evidences just to please the political masters.  In lay man’s language that would be termed “witch hunting”.

CAG providing his report is NOT similar to “official agencies unearthing evidence” in case of Bedi. It’s the duty of the CAG to audit and provide report of government expenditure. CAG did his routine job and fortunately for India, CAG is a very honest and upright gentleman unlike MMS. Comparing CAG’s job with “official agencies” is totally out of context. As per the law “official agencies” require governmental permission or formal complaint or court order to “unearth evidences”. In Bedi’s case media has not reported any complaint or court order that prompted “unearthing” exercise and hence we have no choice but to believe the government conspired.  CAG does not take orders from executive branch of the government (ministers) where as “official agencies” do.

VS continues his new found CAG argument in his next post as well. We will look into that but before that, let’s just LOL at the statement by him: “On the other hand, you could argue that in the UPA’s second term, the scandals that have emerged have all been uncovered only as a result of the government’s own efforts.” Either VS thinks all his readers have no IQ or VS thinks by vomiting such crap will make him an intellectual journalist.  I mean, how in the holy god of secularism’s name he concludes that a government involved in scandals will uncover its own corruption. On second thoughts, has govt promised him Padma Bhushan next year?

“Let’s take 2G. The scandal only broke as a result of a report by the CAG. You may or may not agree with the CAG’s computation of the loss caused to the exchequer (and it is now clear that even within the CAG’s office, there were disagreements), but you cannot dispute that if there had been no CAG report, there would be no 2G scandal.” This is such a blatant lie that VS is trying to sell here. The scandal was in public even before the CAG report. PILs were filed and Subramanian Swamy moved SC long before the CAG report was tabled. If anything, the CAG report only confirmed the monstrous size of the scandal.  Here is the list of events and timeline as per Wikipedia. Yes Wikipedia is authentic reference, as it constructs the time line based on media reports.

…May 4, 2009: An NGO Telecom Watchdog files complaint to the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) on the illegalities in the spectrum allocation to Loop Telecom.

….May 19, 2009: Another complaint was filed to the CVC by Arun Agarwal, highlighting grant of spectrum to Swan Telecom at throwaway prices.

….May, 2010: NGO Centre for Public Interest litigation moves the Delhi High Court seeking investigation into the scam by SIT or CBI.

….Sept 13, 2010: SC asks government, Raja to reply within 10 days to three petitions filed by CPIL and others alleging there was a Rs 70,000 crore scam in the grant of telecom licences in 2008

….Sept 24, 2010: Swamy moves SC seeking direction to the PM to sanction prosecution of Raja.

The SC has numerous times pulled up CBI for shoddy investigation. If not for active role of SC and petitioners like Swamy, the scandal would have been easily buried by the government. Saying government uncovered the scandals is nothing but a joke. “The current CAG, an honest and upright bureaucrat called Vinod Rai, got the job because the UPA Cabinet chose him. His candidacy was strongly pushed by the former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram who knew Rai from his career in the finance ministry.” Justice Santosh Hegde was appointed by the government headed by Yedurappa. This is similar to Vinod Rai being appointed by the UPA government. Fortunately both of them have done justice to their assigned duties. This in no means absolves the governments of their sins. How would have VS responded if BJP claimed that it was their government that uncovered mining scam? It cannot get funnier than that. “So it is with the arrests. Who would have thought it possible that Spectrum King A. Raja would spend so many months in jail. Who would have imagined that the CBI would have the guts to arrest the daughter of M. Karunanidhi, an important Congress ally at a time when the government depended on the DMK’s support for its survival?”

CBI had no choice after being pulled up by SC. With various petitions that Swamy filed with documents he possessed, CBI had to act. Let us ask counter question. If Swamy did not really have possession of documents he claims he has, is he insane to move SC to seek permission to prosecute Chidambaram and also showing intention of even inducting MMS? “In the end, all of the uncovering of the scandal, all of the investigating and all of the arresting has been done by branches of the government. And yet, nobody believes that this government has any interest in uncovering the truth or in fighting corruption. The credit is given to the courts (who can only act once the CBI brings cases to them), to the media and to the opposition. The government itself gets no credit at all.” I don’t understand why VS is so hell bent on using illogical arguments in proving government is anti-corrupt. Is not this the most corrupt government yet? A government that indulges in corruption can no way uncover its own corruption. VS is either acting innocent or its time he took sanyas. I would prefer second option for him for his own good as well as the country.

 “So here’s what the truth is. No, this is not the most corrupt government is history. It is headed by a decent and honest man. And his government has uncovered most of the corruption cases we read about. But this is a government without a visible leader. The Prime Minister has made the mistake of sitting back and watching while his allies have made money. And now, while he should be associating himself with the clean-up, he cowers silently at Race Course Road.”

Well yeah you are right VS. Seriously, if PM was silent when his allies made money, he is as much responsible. That only means for him more than national interests, saving government was important. It’s not surprising though. We are already aware that to save itself, congress can indulge in horse trading. It is an art it has mastered. Cash for votes scam is another hot topic now.

With the title of his second post he misleads the reader to believe he is criticizing the government whereas all he does is mindlessly defend the government. Then he ends with questioning leadership of the government. It is clear where he is heading with his arguments. With Clown Prince rumoured to be made party president and Diggy already announcing in public that it’s high time sycophants like him are ruled by Clown Prince, it’s an attempt to create grounds for MMS to exit and Clown to claim Gaddi. After all, it’s not surprising if Congress realizes that they may not return to power in 2014 and Clown prince would have to wait god knows how many more years to sit on gaddi.