{"id":21930,"date":"2012-10-01T15:26:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T14:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=21930"},"modified":"2012-11-03T14:15:09","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T14:15:09","slug":"how-to-kill-a-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/10\/how-to-kill-a-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Kill a Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Kuthenkuzhi Village, India, September 21, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Anoint a colonized World Bank clerk as the Chief Executive with American blessings<br \/>\nAnd have him dance to imperial tunes and MNC notes with\u00a0<em>Swadeshi<\/em>\u00a0songs and swings.<br \/>\nInclude all the rogues, rascals and rowdies as coalition partners and co-conspirators;<br \/>\nMake \u201cLoot and Let Loot\u201d the philosophy of governance and principle of administration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Grant licenses, permits, and permissions for high amounts of kickbacks and commission;<br \/>\nEven if the country loses income and profit, just increase your cuts without any remission.<br \/>\nAppropriate real estates and properties, accumulate wealth and ascertain aggrandizement;<br \/>\nHoard the money in Swiss banks, and have Quattrocchis operate \u2018em without advertisement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Open up national economy for Foreign Direct Investment and stringent structural adjustments;<br \/>\nSet up nuclear power plants all over and prop up foreign economies and nuclear establishments;<br \/>\nBuild more nuclear weapons, blast more ballistic missiles with corrupt military procurements;<br \/>\nTurn the country into a super-poor superpower with these deadly political determinants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If anyone challenges any of this, call them anti-national, unpatriotic and even seditious;<br \/>\nClaim they\u2019re waging a war on the State even as you wage on them a war malicious.<br \/>\nRepeat the accusation they\u2019re instigated by external powers, foreign money and spies abhorrent;<br \/>\nFoist false cases, vandalize their properties, raid their homes, send summons and arrest warrant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ignore global civil society, deem your citizens your own slaves and treat \u2018em as you please;<br \/>\nFlout international norms, forswear human rights, forsake human dignity and citizens\u2019 ease;<br \/>\nStamp out democratic space, snub any political dissent, and silence any whispers and murmurs;<br \/>\nTurn hope and faith into fear and hate; engage media goons, and employ terrorism discourses;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And thus you can kill your democracy slowly, softly and surely!<br \/>\n______________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>S.P. Udayakumar, Ph.D. \u2013 Tamil Nadu, India:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>* SACCER-South Asian Community Center for Education and Research (promoting life-long, life-wide and life-deep education)<\/em><em><br \/>\n<em>* TRANSCEND Network, South Asia Convener (TSA) (For Rethinking South Asia)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>* People\u2019s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>* National Alliance of Anti-nuclear Movements (NAAM) (For a Nuclear-Free India that has No Deals, No Mines, No Reactors, No Dumps, and No Bombs).<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anoint a colonized World Bank clerk as the Chief Executive with American blessings<br \/>\nAnd have him dance to imperial tunes and MNC notes with Swadeshi songs and swings.<br \/>\nInclude all the rogues, rascals and rowdies as coalition partners and co-conspirators;<br \/>\nMake \u201cLoot and Let Loot\u201d the philosophy of governance and principle of administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kudankulam-anti-nuclear-satyagraha-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}