Activists are not Gods. Politicians also try to cover up their acts of omission or commission by whipping up mob frenzy. How better are the Team Anna activists who are trying to generate public sympathy to scare the law agencies and keep them off their backs. These activists are not amateurs and should have well known what are their limitations before getting excited and emotional and hurling abuses at the institutions of democracy. But this is the trait of the right-wing groups, smearing their opponents. All activists go through this blackmail from the establishment and have to face it within the ambit of the law rather than taking cover from mobs. An anti-mining activist was slapped with a defamation suit by a mining company. How many of this anti-corruption dramatists stood up to defend him? He was not acceptable to the right-wing fanatics and so he has been systematically thrown aside by calling him a naxalite. Now someone else claims the CNN-IBN Reliance award for anti-mining activism in Goa within no time. Is corporate Reliance less exploitative than the mining companies? So where is the activist ethics when one receives awards from corporate houses? What we have are corporate activists and corporate social workers. They need awards to gain acceptability and prove their genuineness. -Soter
