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From: Niloufer Bhagwat <nilouferin@vsnl...>
Date: Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 2:12 PM
Subject: [humanrights-movement:4774] Re: Lokpal and the Three (Magsaysay)
Musketeers
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Dear Colleagues ,

The issue must not be approached from a simplistic
point of view .

This article is for  your information , you need not accept the views
given in this article .However a reasoned debate is on in the country
and diverse views  are a part of the dialogue, even though everyone accepts
that there should be  several tier authorities, as against one authority
sitting in Delhi
against corruption and* for ventilating public **grievances* .*The issue
still *
*requires careful and effective consideration**considering that the CVC
which *
*was earlier hailed as an answer has **not worked and neither has the Lok
Ayukta *
*effectively . Recently **the Lok Ayukta in Karnataka had to ask for
protection for*
*his report against illegal mining activity and in many provinces the
authority*
*has no teeth !!!!!!!*

*How is a centralised 11 member body seating in New Delhi going*
*to function for the length and breadth of the country ?????*
**
*Morever the Supreme Court and High Courts required to be cushioned*
*against threat and  influence , as it is they are too timid to act in many
cases* and
need a separate investigative body on which sitting and retired Judges
will function along with independent and honest authorities .*Whereas in *
*appointments to the higher Judiciary the Chief Justice and Judges should*
* have an adequate say in the appointment as the competence and*
*integrity of the candidate has to be assessed if the Supreme Court and*
*High Courts are not to be packed by a Commission working out its*
*own agenda !!!!!*

*The Preventionof Corruption Act which is basically a sound enactment needs
*
*very  few amendments ; namely  wherever there is a prima facie case even*
*on a complaint by a citizen the facts shall be investigated and sanction
for *
*prosecution  shall be given by the anti-corruption authorities to be
established*
*all over the country from the Talukas/Tehsils /Districts/States /New Delhi
depending*
*on geographical jurisdiction and the prosecution shall be before Special
Fast Track*
*Courts and not before the nomral civil and criminal courts *  ;*moreover*
* Corporate Houses , Real Estate Companies ,  Builders , Money lenders *
*etc including NGOs receiving Corporate funds  all require to be covered
under *
*this Act as well as Transnational foreign and Indian Companies etc as they
are*
*  as well as legislators for acts done outside the legislative **bodies ,
Muncipal *
*Councillors , Nagar Parishad members and officials of all such bodies.*
**
*The Janlokpal Bill does not cover Companies , the builders and financiers*
*lobby etc who in fact subvert the system at the highest levels neither does
*
*it cover Media Houses and NGOs funded by the Corporate Sector .*

*We need several tier authorities from the Taluka , District upwards with*
*the authority to direct investigation and prosecution under the Prevention*
*of Corruption Act which provides that whereever  assets are
disproportionate*
*to the source of income the individual shall be liable as provided under
the *
*Prevention of Corruption Act with Special Courts as per the statute.*

*To say that unless a particular version of the Lokpal Bill is enacted
someone*
*is going to starve to death is absurd .An effective measure is required
including*
*protection for those who make the complaints and needs careful
consideration*.

The question as to how far in a system dominated by corporate policy
influencing every decision and at every level, democracy can function
effectively is in thefinal analysis a political question and that is
the existing
political  limitation to  statutory measures enacted so far to prevent
corruption
and those on the agenda . We have seen what has happened to the US and the
UK .*The famous Justice Brandeis had observed that private Corporation would
*
*enslave societies in the same way as the African-Americans had been
enslaved*
*if there were no checks and balances on their economic and financial power
.*
**
*As of now with the economic and financial collapse of so many financial*
*centres there is a desire to prey on the budgets of other societies ,in
this*
*context we have to be particulary careful  that  heads of government are
not*
*made or unmade from financial citadels hijacking NGOs .*

*The issue has to be approached without blinkers and illusions and the*
*attempt to manufacture individual heroes who will lead us into the*
*promised land avoided .*


                     Niloufer Bhagwat

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*Subject:* Re: Lokpal and the Three (Magsaysay) Musketeers-S Faizi-21 August
2011




*Subject:* Fw: Lokpal and the Three (Magsaysay) Musketeers-S Faizi-21 August
2011

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Lokpal and the Three (Magsaysay) Musketeers

S Faizi
21 August 2011

While condemning the short detention of Anna Hazare and his colleagues, it
is nevertheless pertinent to understand what the Magsaysay Award really is,
especially in the wake of the United States official support to the
anti-corruption agitation led by three Magsaysay awardees (Anna Hazare,
Kiran Bedi and Arvind Kejriwal).

Washington is a government that creates and protects systemic corporate
corruption across the world; a military machine that is at perpetual war
with the militarily weak countries of the global south; a regime that is at
the root of most of the corporate loot in India; a regime that is rapidly
making the planet uninhabitable; a regime to which Manmohan Singhs
government is readily obedient.

The game plan might look confusing - for Manmohan Singh too is Americas best
friend - but it is simple enough if one looks at the preceding game plans.
For example: Mossad and the CIA trained the Sri Lankan military and the LTTE
at the same time (and called both of them monkeys). Then there was Americas
strategy of fiercely manufacturing jihadi terrorism in Afghanistan to fight
the USSR, and its subsequent use of the presence of the jihadis as an alibi
for occupying and destroying the country.

Now let us come straight to the three Magsaysay awardees.

Late Ramon Magsaysay was a former president of The Philippines. But the
award, though in his name and in his honour, is not an official award of The
Philippines government, but one that is funded and run by the Rockefeller
Foundation, out of Manila to be sure, with some local faces accommodated on
the Board. And its youth award (given to Kejriwal) is funded by a bird of
the same feather - the Ford Foundation.

Cultivating and promoting society leaders who one way or the other stand up
for American values and help remove the social space for those who challenge
American hegemony that is at the root of a multitude of world problems, is
the long term purpose of the award. It can also be used for short term
goals, such as precipitating a domestic crisis. [The current face-off at
Ramlila Maidan could be said to represent such a manufactured crisis].

Magsaysay is also given as reward to those who stand for American interests.
As an example, consider the invaluable collection of Indias rice germ-plasm
assiduously built at the Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, which was taken
away by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) located on the
banks of the beautiful Laguna lake about two hours drive from Manila.

The Rockefeller Foundation was instrumental in establishing the IRRI for the
western agri-business corporations, to have a firm grip on rice cultivation
in Asia. And the man who helped IRRI deprive India of its precious rice
germ-plasm collection was later made the head of IRRI and rewarded with the
Magsaysay [a rich purse], and subsequently made chairman of the award
committee.

The name Ramon Magsaysay did not come to the Ford Foundation by accident. If
it was to honour the values of freedom and commitment to the people, they
should have gone for the name of Jose Rizal, the most revered Philipino
leader, but they did not do that. Ramon Magsaysay steadfastly stood for
American interests both in The Philippines and the southeast Asia region.
The 1953 presidential election that Magsaysay won was entirely manipulated
by the CIA to put him in that position. Nick Cullather of Stanford
University says in his book Illusions of Influence: The Political Economy of
United States-Philippines Relations, 1942-1960, The US flagrantly intervened
in the 1953 election. The list of CIA dirty tricks, by one account, included
money laundering, arson, and blackmail, but ironically these depredations
fail to convey the scope of the interference. The election was all about the
United States.

Magsaysay was considered a great asset by America in fighting communist
movements. He happily worked for America to set up the dangerous SEATO
(Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty) military alliance, although it
had hardly any takers within the region (only the kingdom of Thailand and
the vassal state of Pakistan).

America unsuccessfully used him to spoil the 1955 Bandung Conference that
led to the birth of the Non-Alignment Movement. He refused to go Bandung
(like his mentor John Dulles, the US Secretary of State) in deference to
American interests, but sent a representative who argued for American
interests, giving lone company to the US envoy there. I wonder how many of
our civil society groups and journalists who get excited at the very mention
of the Magsaysay Award know how Ramon had attempted to malign the image of
Jawaharlal Nehru (and NAM) by describing the Non Aligned Movement as a
springboard of communism, because they were angered by Nehrus criticism of
SEATO.

Ramon Magsaysay is honoured by the US for nothing but his courageous stand
against communism in the Far East. And the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations
award in his name is meant to promote that old purpose in a sustained and
discrete manner.

The three Magsaysay awardees, owning multiple well-funded NGOs, live up to
the expectations of the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations; and now the US
government has officially chipped in, though it is simultaneously trying to
distance itself belatedly in the face of a strong official reaction from New
Delhi.

Where do we, the real people of India, the owners of the Republic and the
authors of the Constitution, stand, thrown as we are between a US bent,
colonialisms apologist Manmohan Singh and the Three Magsaysay musketeers?

God, if there is one, save the country.


Dr S Faizi is an ecologist specialising in international environmental
policy; his email is biodiversity@redi...


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