---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Satyen K. Bordoloi <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:54 AM Subject: Video: Is The Lokpal Bill A Farce? To:
Interview With Usha Ramanathan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tukI3MX7rvU This is an interview with independent law researcher, activist and writer Usha Ramanathan who analyses the Jan Lokpal Bill from the perspective of a lawyer. Usha's perspective is extremely important considering that she was one of the lawyers who was part of the consultation during the drafting of the Jan Lokpal Bill and also knows Arvind Kejriwal and other members well. In her view, the Jan Lokpal Bill is riddled with problems and though she does not say it, it is obvious that the bill is extremely farcical that might actually end up leading to greater corruption in the country. She says in the interview, *"I do not think anybody who is making a law like this, would have seriously intended this to be passed and implemented... I refuse to believe that people who we know and are part of the movement, could be so absurd in their rationality."* Usha points out many absurdities in the bill. She says, "For the first time in all these years that I have been reading law, it's not the politics that is telling you about the law, but the law is telling you about the politics. And the politics is not about the making of this law. It cannot be," while also candidly admitting that she is in no position to comment on the politics that is being used to drive this absurdity. According to her the movement of the masses that rose up in favour of Anna Hazare, is not really about the bill. She also points out some of the unheard of elements in the bill and some unconstitutional elements like phone-tapping. She says, *"Jan Lokpal cannot be taken seriously. Because it is too full of contradictions and impossibilities."* Pointing out the difference between RTI that has had a huge impact against corruption, Usha says, *"RTI says, we give the power of your destiny in your own hands, Lokpal says you become our subject and we'll protect you."* In the same breath she says, *"If you cannot democratize control over corruption, you cannot control corruption."* s -- -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the predecessors of Hitler did, else how is it that Germany always had the lists of Jewish names even prior to the arrival of the Nazis? The Nazis got these lists with the help of IBM which was in the 'census' business that included racial census that entailed not only count the Jews but also identifying them. At the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, there is an exhibit of an IBM Hollerith D-11 card sorting machine that was responsible for organising the census of 1933 that first identified the Jews.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902&ap=1*< http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902&ap=1> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
