Tamil Nadu Lawyers’ mutiny – the Church’s first big step
The drama unfolding in the Tamil Nadu Bar and judiciary is uncannily likethe drama which is even now unfolding in Pakistan and India after the Mumbaiterror attacks on 26 November, 2008; the serial rapist is successfullyplaying virgin victim. The US has given the world another new phrase forparroting obediently – ‘good Taliban/bad Taliban’ which is a bold andoriginal departure from good cop/bad cop. From good Taliban it is only asmall step to good jihad, good church, good rapist and good genocide. Nowpermit me to coin a new word - good lawyers.
The irony of the ‘good’ will be better understood if we grant the Tamil NaduBar to be part cut-throat and part craven, albeit in unequal parts while thejudiciary, and this includes the Supreme Court, is almost wholly craven. Thecraven lot in the Bar comprises of the so-called ‘decent’ lawyers who havenot summoned the courage to take a stand against the rowdies, goondas,hooligans and thugs in the Bar; these are lawyers funded by knownanti-social and anti-national groups at home and abroad while deriving theirimpunity from dravidian anti-national polity and Tamil-chauvinist (readcrypto-Christian) political parties. The Tamil Nadu judiciary has been asometimes silent, sometimes benign and even indulgent spectator of this longhistory of rampant goondaism bordering on terror tactics by a section ofTamil Nadu lawyers. It is a history going back to over a decade. As JusticeSrikrishna put it in his report, “Suffice it to say that a number ofcriminal cases were registered by the police against several advocates forindulging in activities that amounted to criminal offences”.
This section of goonda lawyers emboldened by the political clout of thePresidents of the Madras High Court Advocates Association and the Tamil NaduAdvocates Association, RC Paul Kanagaraj and S Prabakaran respectively, havenot only publicly affirmed the cause of Velupillai Prabhakaran who is anotified fugitive Sri Lankan Tamil terrorist wanted in India for theassassination of Rajiv Gandhi, they have gone so far as to celebrate theterrorist’s birthday within the High Court premises. Dravidian (byconnotation secessionist) politics has equated the extremely complex andcivilisationally troubling Sri Lankan Tamil issue with the LTTE; thissimplistic diminution of the issue has however exposed the Church in TamilNadu and also exposed in the process the cold and calculating ways of theWhite western church of all denominations.
It is not simply coincidence that all processions and demonstrations insupport of the LTTE and Velupillai Prabhakaran, in the guise of support forSri Lankan Tamils have a Christian padri leading from the front. Roadsidemeetings addressed by politicians belonging to the ‘Viduthalai Chiruthai’(Leopards for Freedom, a name closely resembling the Tamil appellation forthe LTTE, ‘Viduthalai Puli’ or Tigers for Freedom or simply Tamil Tigers)are also organized near churches; the flock in these churches constitute theaudience at these meetings. A few years ago a Christian nun was arrested inSouth Tamil Nadu for distributing inflammatory pamphlets in support of theLTTE and Tamil Eelam (the secessionist Tamil state). Velupillai Prabhakaran,and his son who has been anointed terrorist-heir apparent, are bothChristian; the LTTE’s verbose supporter in Tamil Nadu, the notorious Vaikoor Vai. Gopalaswamy is also allegedly Christian. Vaiko, chief of MDMK, yetanother secessionist dravidian Tamil political party was incarcerated byJayalalithaa under the NSA for sedition. He is now her devoted WalterRaleigh.
The most striking tell-tale sign of the hand of the church in the cause ofthe Tamil secessionist movement is Jayalalithaa’s endorsement last week ofTamil Eelam; she had been vehemently opposed to the idea of Tamil Eelam andhad staunchly maintained that she was as committed to the territorialintegrity of Sri Lanka as she was to the resolution of the civil war withjustice for the Sri Lankan Tamil people. This radical departure onJayalalithaa’s part of endorsing Eelam is only a continuum of the radicaldeparture she made in December 2008 when several Christian padris, whichincluded one Bishop, conducted special Christian prayers on Christmas dayfollowed by special service in her home at Poe’s Garden. This went farbeyond the usual Christmas festivities in which Hindu political leadersparticipate for their Christian cadre and for secularism. Needless to say itwas Vaiko who offered Jayalalithaa lemon juice after her day of fasting forthe well-being of the LTTE.
If we take into account the fact that south of Chennai, almost every singlefishing hamlet on the Tamil Nadu coast is wholly Christian and/or Muslim andthat the Muslims of Sri Lanka are almost wholly Tamil speaking, and if aftertaking into account the fact that Jayalalithaa allowed World Vision,ActionAid and other rabid Christian NGOs to run amok in Tamil Nadu after thetsunami, were it to be said that Tamil Nadu is sitting on a politicalvolcano waiting to erupt, it would not be overstating the situation. Wellorganized fishermen’s organizations and unions in Tamil Nadu have nowstepped forward publicly to demand Tamil Eelam.
Pope John Paul II abusing the hospitality of the Indian state and Indianpeople declared on Hindu-majority Indian soil, on the sacred Hindu day ofDeepavalli that he intended to plant the church in Asia in the thirdmillennium. China, India, Nepal, South Korea and Sri Lanka, stubbornlyHindu, Buddhist and Confucian, are top on the agenda of the Catholic,Protestant and other primitive, uncivilized denominations like the AmericanBaptist, New Life and other freewheeling churches belonging to no knowndenomination but flush with dubious money. Tamil Nadu is the largestrecipient of foreign funds and this money, coming from White ChristianAmerican and European government and non-government donors is being investedwith great foresight and calculation by local Churches and Christianagencies in several sectors ranging from real estate, banks, televisionchannels, TV soaps and other serials on television, penetrating the Tamilfilm world with growing numbers of Christian actors, musicians and technicalsupport staff, giant jewelry outlets, religious conversion throughallurement, buying hugely expensive time for tele-evangelising in severalTamil satellite channels, starting more and more educational institutions,funding political parties, creating NGOs, the list is endless and theirdetermination to penetrate and influence all aspects of public life,alarming. (
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Church activity and investment in Tamil Nadu is directly linked to thecontinuing civil strife (I refuse to call it ethnic conflict because it ispalpably false and misleading) in Sri Lanka. The church is working towardsthe creation of a pan-Tamil nation out of the territories of Tamil Nadu inIndia and the North and East of Sri Lanka; and the useful idiots in TamilNadu and Sri Lanka, facilitating the diabolic objective, must wake up to thetruth that the pan-Tamil nation they are working for is a Christian statelike East Timor. (Give url of monograph) The church penetrated the Maoistsof Nepal and Kandhamal in Orissa, the church’s creepy fingers have touchedChandrababu Naidu, Jayalalithaa and now Navin Patnaik; if the communists arePatnaik’s new bed-fellow, the Christian Maoists of Kandhamal probably playedpimps. It is time the so-called decent elements in the Tamil Nadu Bar andjudiciary realized that their reputation has been held hostage and theirstrings pulled by the invisible hand of the church in India and foreignchurches.
A sizeable segment of the well-educated, social and political Sinhala elitein Sri Lanka is also Christian but the Christian segment, while visible andpowerful, is still in a minority vis a vis the Sinhala Buddhists; theSinhala Christian political ruling class is tamed by its dependence on thepowerful Buddhist clergy for its legitimacy. The invisible church behind theSinhala Christian ruling elite seeks to control the state apparatus even asthe visible and assertive church seeks to control the voting populace amongthe Tamils. The church, with Machiavellian intent, is thus playing both endsof the game. The civil war in Sri Lanka while seemingly between the Sinhalaand Tamil speaking people, now being given the brazenly false Hindu-Buddhistconflict colour, is actually the Church manipulating the people of Sri Lankathrough well-directed and choreographed civil strife aimed ultimately atcreating a separate and secessionist Christian Tamil state.
The ruling Sinhala Buddhist and Christian elite has thus fallen into thediabolic Christian trap of seeking Pakistan’s aid to break the LTTEbackbone, something which India ought to have done had the Congress PrimeMinister not been pulled by his strings by the hand of Italian ChristianSonia Gandhi. Sonia Gandhi’s UPA abandoned Sri Lanka to Pakistan (read Chinaand USA) just as it had abandoned Nepal to the Maoists (read China and USAagain). The Sinhala Sri Lankan government is playing the foolish game ofpitting the potentially secessionist Tamil Muslims of the Muslim-majorityAmparai district in the East against the other Tamils of the region hopingto keep Amparai as a thorn in the flesh of the Tamil-majority region. Abeginning was made when the North was separated from the East for the firsttime in any calculation towards a political settlement of the issue. This isa foolish hope because ultimately, the Muslims, like the Christians owetheir allegiance not to their native country but to their religion.
No political commentator or terrorism expert has pointed to the significanceof an LTTE suicide bomber killing 15 people and wounding several others,including Sri Lankan Postal Services Minister Mahinda Wijesekara, on the 12th of this month outside a mosque in Akuressa in southern Sri Lanka. Theoccasion was Milad-un-Nabi, - the birthday of Prophet Mohammedi. The LTTEwas targeting both Sinhala politicians who were present in large numbers atthe mosque and also the Muslims.
The Sri Lankan Tamil issue is therefore not simply ‘spilling over’ intoTamil Nadu in India but has always been inextricably linked with Tamil Nadu.Tamil politics, unless the caste Hindus of Tamil Nadu and the Tamil (Saiva)Hindus of Sri Lanka wake up, is all about intra-Christian political tusslebetween the Sinhala ruling Christian elite and the Tamil commoner Christian.It is also the Asian theater in the never-ending Christian-Muslim cosmicwar. It bears repetition that Tamil Nadu is being increasingly, visibly andaggressively Islamised and Christianised with astronomical amounts offoreign money pouring into the state legally through foreign donors and NGOsand illegally through Hawala and other routes. A similar scenario hasalready unfolded in Kerala.
The violence let loose with impunity by the Christian and dravidian Tamilchauvinist section of the Madras High Court lawyers is Christian investmentin education yielding political interest. Fewer than a hundred lawyers, thehistory-sheeters with a long history of crime were let loose in the state bytheir handlers and this murderous, criminal gang brought the Tamil Nadu Barand judiciary to its knees. The Supreme Court fared no better. The Church iswell-organized and well connected. Having triggered the sequence of violenceon the 17th of February, this group provoked the volatile CJI to put hisfoot in the mouth when he committed the ultimate impropriety of lashing outat the police without allowing the police to present their version of theevents of February 19. The CJI, like most of the country was intentionallykept in the dark about February 17.
http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1072&Itemid=1Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, heading a three-Judge Bench, told SolicitorGeneral G.E. Vahanvati, appearing for the State: “The police entering thecourt halls, attacking judges, lawyers, staff and causing damage is a veryserious matter. We are serious about it. Even if the police wanted to arrestsome lawyers, in all fairness they should have informed the acting ChiefJustice or at least the Registrar-General. We want to know under whoseinstance the police entered the premises. Give us the names of the officerswho asked helmet wearing policemen wielding lathis to enter the court hallsand we will deal with them firmly.”’
“We will ascertain from the government who is responsible for this mess. Ifit is not possible for the government to tell us at whose instance thepolice entered the HC premises and used force against the lawyers, then wewill find it out. We don’t want any cooperation from the police. We know howto handle such situations.”
(In)famous last words! The incumbent Chief Justice of India, KG Balakrishnanlike another of his colleagues in the Supreme Court is given to emotionaloutbursts and indiscreet, even intemperate statements.
http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1038&Itemid=71Not stopping with playing to the gallery with this highly improper outburstagainst the police, the CJI took a leaf from out of Alice in Wonderland andoff-ed with the heads of five highly respected police officers of the rankof Joint Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner and had them summarilytransferred out of Chennai. Thus did the highest officer of the country’sjudiciary dispense justice; by listening to just one side of the story, thecriminal lawyers’ side. The scumbag lawyers indicted by a Division Bench ofthe Madras High Court for physical and verbal violence against Dr.Subramaniam Swamy and other litigants in Court hall 3, and indicted byJustice Srikrishna in the interim report, are still unpunished. They havenot even been found guilty because for the Madras High Court and the SupremeCourt, notwithstanding the Srikrishna report which has described the eventsof February 17 in great detail, February 2009 never had the 17th day.
“My view, albeit prima facie, is that the soft-pedaling policy followed bythe Madras High Court Judges has led to the present piquant situation.The lawyersappear to have been encouraged by the wrong 'signals sent out andseemed to thinkthat they could do anything and get away within the Court premises.Regretfully, far from being the upholders of the rule of law, the lawyersseem to have behaved as hooligans and miscreants. The incidents that transpiredover a last month or so make it clear that the lawyers seemed to be underthe impression that, because they are officers of the Court, they are immunefrom the process of law and that they could get away with any unlawful actwithout being answerable to the law enforcing agency. It is most unfortunatethat the soft policy adopted by the Acting Chief Justice of Madras HighCourt and its administration sent out clearly a wrong message thatencouraged and emboldened the lawyers into becoming law breakers”. (Excerptfrom Justice Srikrishna’s interim report)
The Supreme Court by abusing the police through punitive transfers has thusfacilitated the transformation of the rapist into victim.
Pandering to the hysterical demand by the lawyers for a judicial commissionto go into the events of February 19 in the Madras High Court, the CJIconstituted the one-man Justice Srikrishna Commission. Mandated by theSupreme Court to submit an interim report within ten days of commissioning,Justice Srikrishna submitted his interim report on the 4th of March, 2009.The findings of the Srikrishna Commission shocked the nation. The blatantlyone-sided anti-police version peddled by the lawyers and a section ofcomplicit print and electronic media was beginning to tilt rapidly toachieve a state of relative balance.
http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1075&Itemid=1Notwithstanding the damning indictment of the conduct of the lawyers byJustice Srikrishna, the Tamil Nadu Bar and the judiciary remained craven anddid not summon the courage or the will to bring the criminal lawyers tojustice. Confronted by the extremely hostile reception to his findings,Justice Srikrishna withdrew from the commission and the CJI, just as cravenas the Tamil Nadu judiciary, instead of holding the Tamil Nadu Barresponsible for Justice Srikrishna’s withdrawal, and instead of constitutinganother Commission with two or three retired judges, abdicated hisresponsibility and threw the case back into the lap of the Madras HighCourt.
For its part, both the Madras High Court and the state government have nowcommitted themselves to act as per the findings and recommendations of theSrikrishna Report to probe police action in the court premises on February19. Both have chosen to remain ignominiously craven and have not brought theevents of February 17 into the ambit of the probe. If the CJI was going topass the buck to the Madras High Court to probe the events of February 19,then he ought not to have transferred senior police officers punitively outof Chennai with unseemly haste. If the responsibility for pinning blame forFebruary 19 was going to be left to the local judiciary, then the SupremeCourt ought to have restrained itself from needless activism, encroachinginto the Executive domain. Investigating police action and dealingappropriately with the results of the probe ought to have been left to thestate government.
The Church has succeeded on all fronts – penetrated law colleges usingadmission norms in its favour, getting these students, irrespective of theirmerit, into enrolling themselves as practicing lawyers in the Bar, usingsuch members to gain control of the city and state Advocates Associations,using these associations and Dravidian, Tamil chauvinist, secessionistpolitical parties beholden to the church for its munificence to paralyze thesystem, sowing discord between different pillars of democracy, and finallyto bring the judiciary to its knees. This is just the first step – testingthe waters, so to speak, before taking the plunge to set events in rapidmotion to culminate in the Christian Tamil state called Eelam. Unless theuseful idiots mindlessly serving church interests wake up now, they willwake up one day to find that Eelam is a fait accompli like East Timor.
Radha Rajan,
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