An 'A' is an A

Vikas Gill (India, 08/01/06)

You would be wondering why in the name of GOD I am talking about all that I am going to talk. I was ignorant but as my city DELHI experienced big terror strikes in the last few days I actually witnessed the massacred and mutilated bodies of the human beings that lied just kilometers away from my house, the hands of children, the fingers of babies lying scattered on the roads, was horrifying enough to slap me in the face and tell me that some where we have to draw a line and find out the answer to all this hatred. Hence I am writing. So actually who is a terrorist? Who is this person that we are so scared of? I had all these and more questions like these in my mind. Now I feel at this age I do have some of the answers, some answers I still have to find. If you care about the life you are living, and if you have experienced the term TERRORISM in some way, you would definitely like to resonate with my thoughts, well that is what I hope at least. The word terrorist comes from TERROR, so the dictionary explains it as a human being or an individual or a group of people using the methods of TERROR. That much for the literary knowledge. I think that there is no such word as terrorist which originally was there in the human dictionary. Terrorist is the manufacturing of the human machinery.

Terrorist is not born, but created. Terrorist is not a culprit or criminal. The modern day definition of a Terrorist would be a person forced to use terror, after being cornered by a higher developed society or a group of people, to get what he wants. I have used all my rational thinking to find out if a rational man could use such extreme measures. The only answer I have found is that even a cat growl (normally a wolf growls) at the dog if she is cornered. Terrorism is the invention of CAPITALISM that is what I feel, I may be wrong as I am not so able minded, but as I wanted to share my thinking with all of you so I am writing. I am my self a strong believer of CAPITALISM and I think that it is the most essential entity in our modern day life and without that I would not be even capable of writing this article as I need someone who has invested his or her capital to render me a platform to write and share my thoughts. Here we must admit that one person's gain is always another's loss. If we talk globally or if we talk bigger, even bigger than the state or country's level, than we would not be able to reject the facts that the developed countries always want the under developed to obey and not demand. I know this is burning topic, but what the hell so are our lives- burning too.

When we set our selves the monetary goals we forget whether we are tramping on somebody's ego or may be his bread and butter. And like a SAWAAN KA ANDHA keep on seeing the color our eyes want to see, but like the AYN RAND, the goddess of CAPITALISM says in ATLAS SHRUGGED, as an A is an A, it can never be B. Coming back to the advocacy of my thoughts, I would still say that if you let the freedom of thoughts, the freedom of expression, and the freedom of choice remain, the word terrorism can be wiped from the face of earth. If we give the person what he wants he would never go to extremes. I am not discussing here how it would be found out what the people want, but I can say here that in the case of TERRORISM don't look for the preventions look for the cure. No security in the world is going to prevent the TERRORISM from striking at will but just an act of generosity will end the hatred and with that the word TERRORISM. Take what ever examples you want to take, America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Arabs as well, the faces are different, the feelings of hatred are the same, the cause is the same the ideology is the same. It is not the job of Law enforcement agencies to control them, but for the government to acknowledge their cause and construct the missing gaps, build the pillars of trust and eliminate the darkness in the minds of the stressed. Like BIBLE says, as The one who lives by the sword dies with it. So I say, The one who lives by love never dies without it.