Thursday 30 August 2012

what is supposed to be a fair trial (kasab)

i am a mumbaikar at heart..
someone attacks my city they attack my heart..i was 15 when this happened. i just thought nothing then.
I am 18 now supposedly more mature..i dont think so, because i dont know what is going on in this country..are we giving a some terrorist a free trial? why? what do we expect when we give someone a free trial? Thats the question in my brains right now..Is hanging kasab the right thing to do? If yes what message are we giving to the rest of the terrorists out there..does the message say attack us and we are going to kill you after giving you a fair trial. Firstly, what is a fair trial. It should give any person a right to vindicate himself. It is justice, Just personified. It is giving the criminal a say.
What a layman would infer from whatever happened is "he should have been killed right when he was caught"..now there is a mercy petition which definitely will not be approved i am sure..the president was shown his victory only after he assured bal thackrey that he would not give some other criminal a mercy petition.

There is something called #alternativepunishmentforkasab trending on twitter, would make for a few laughs for the light hearted. Of course who would want to take something like this seriously? Its a fucking disgrace for someone to be giving kasab an ear for reason. Would i ever do something like listening to all these lawyers arguing among themselves? Someone did argue on behalf of kasab? I don't know what to say...
India had many attacks from everywhere in the world i had this pleasant oppurtunity to occasionally think coolly and form a thesis as to what a punishment would be for these criminals most of whom are not even in my memory right now. But can i do the same thing to this man kasab? Can i forget his fateful face? will he not haunt the minds of people travelling to and fro in mumbai. People there live in constant fear of some terror that can strike them anytime, unknowingly they brave these fears just to make a living for themselves. Why mumbai everywhere around the world a terrorist attack has become more like a natural disaster, we have no say as to what it can do. We can only run and save ourselves some memories only to be passed to our fellow citizens as cautions.

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