Dear prashantsingh,
I am opposing this idea of government not because it is against my personal opinions but because it is not a healthy trend as a matter of principle.
1. It was not a very big amount .
1. It may not be a big amount for me, but it can be a big amount for someone else.
2. It may not be a big amount for me today, but since government is doing this not as per law, but as per its pleasure, it may raise this amount tomorrow. Then it may become a big amount for me.
2. I was inheriting all my weapons and was anyways not spending on buying new ones.
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I am inheriting weapons but what about others who are not inheriting weapons?
3. I felt that if this investment is used by them (the Govt.) in any way for the betterment of the lesser privileged . Then there is no harm in doing so.
I agree it may appear as harmless today, but it may not be tomorrow, it is a wrong trend. If the government is really interested in helping the poor, it should set its own house in order first, provide corruption free, good governance with justice, rather than penalizing some citizens to compensate for its corruption and systematic loot. With close to 70 lakh crores (70,000,00,00,00,000) of unaccounted public money stashed by politicians, bureaucrats and the rich in Swiss banks and the like abroad, how does one get hold of that money? I can’t imagine money is being sent abroad by carrier pigeons – it must be going through the banking system!
The world highest deposits in Swiss banks $ 145 trillion are Indian nationality, more than USA, UK,China, all Europeans countries,Saudis, Arabs states,even the Russian and their Mafia. $145 trillion belonging to Indian govt, RBI, Indian banks, Indian corporates lie in Swiss Banks.You would like to believe that they have special interest rates for INDIANs!!!!!
This is money collected in 60 years by politicians, babus, industrialists which rightfully belong to Indian common man. This is one of main causes of naxalism, maoism etc. Are we not heading towards civil war? India is one of the most corrupt countries [despite being most religious !!!] and hence India's contribution to black money of the world is also highest. It is difficult to find even 10% really honest and capable persons in government.
( 70,000,00,00,00,000 if divided equally among all Indians, taking 1 Billion as population, comes to around Rs 70,000 per person. If we use it for the people below poverty line, the figure will go much higher per head. It can almost change the future of India)
Reference:
http://thesocialblog.wordpress.com/2009 ... oney-back/
How would you react goodboy_mentor if you were put in the same situation?
It will be really difficult for one individual to make a difference alone. If others join in, it can make a lot of difference.
"We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin
I have been telling time and again, these kind of problems are a result of unbridled power delegated to executive by legislature by Arms Act 1959. It suffers from vice of over delegation. Solution lies in getting rid of this Arms Act and declaring the Right to Keep and Bear Arms as a Fundamental Right guaranteed by Constitution. People need to remind and compel Congress to honor it's promise made to the people of India.
The very first draft bill of rights for all Indians was a part of the Nehru Report of 1928, it was prepared by a committee of the All Parties Conference chaired by Motilal Nehru with Jawaharlal Nehru acting as secretary. Along with other basic rights to be enjoyed by every Indian citizen, was also the right to keep and bear arms.
Throughout the freedom struggle our leaders protested against the Arms Act of 1878, demanding for every Indian citizen the right to keep and bear arms. For example in Nagpur around 1923 or 1924 there was a Satyagraha movement against the prevailing Arms Act. This movement attracted Satyagrahis from all over India, it went on for six months and the Indian National Congress put its seal of approval on this Satyagraha movement against the Arms Act. In fact even the Father of Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, protested for the right of every Indian citizen to keep and bear arms, going so far as to state that, “Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest”.
The Indian National Congress in it's historic 1931 Resolution on Fundamental Rights passed at Karachi stated “This Congress is of opinion that to enable the masses to appreciate what Swaraj as conceived by the Congress will mean to them, it is desirable to state the position of the Congress in a manner easily understood by them...” “...The Congress, therefore, declares that any constitution...” please note these words - any constitution, “...which may be agreed to on its behalf, should provide or enable the Swaraj Government to provide for the following...” and various fundamental rights are enumerated, among which was also this one-- “Every citizen has the right to keep and bear arms in accordance with regulations and reservations made in that behalf.”
"If my mother tongue is shaking the foundations of your State, it probably means that you built your State on my land" - Musa Anter, Kurdish writer, assassinated by the Turkish secret services in 1992
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