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friends,
I am sharing some of my thoughts with you, please feel free to share further. politicians and corrupt people will try to confuse IAC supporters and common man by saying that:
Politican's clever argument#1: you can not eradicate corruption from society thru any law. (which is true)
Our response should be: We are not even trying that, we are fighting to setup a system called Lokpal who will keep "corrupt people" out from politics and civil service. our target area is politicians and civil service not society as whole.
You cannot stop people from becoming corrupt, but with the help of a strong jan-lokpal you can certainly keep out and weed out corrupt people from politics and civil service.Politican's clever argument#2: you can not pass comments on people drinking liquor and gambling etc.. thus implying that as if civil society is passing its own laws!!! ... (this is very delicate, who loves hardliners? nobody)
Our response should be: we are not even trying that, we are trying to have a law (like right to recall and right to reject) which makes sure that, corrupt people who manage to sneak thru initial barriers can not go on rampage(like 2G ghotala) and can be bought down from power before they do any damage to country/poor people.
Politican's clever argument#3: We are not here to please everyone. (true "everyone" can not be pleased)
Our response should be: Political classes are only pleasing there own party high-commands, vote-banks and corrupt structure of bureaucracy, if they continue to please only their masters and the system behind which they perform all misdeeds and behind which they hide all the time, how will the vast majority of democracy be pleased? which is 90% of Indian population, all poor or under-privilege people - how will they be pleased? therefore we want politicinas to please the common man which is a majority and not political masters which are a minority.Two more points were added (as response) to my post, i am adding one of them here with my comments:
Politicians argument : In a democracy, elected persons are to decide matters of corruption.
my thoughts: NO, NO and NO. The same people who make the laws, can not be and should not be trusted to keep vigil on 'following the same rules', many reasons: 1) politicians of impeccable character are far and few, its a rarity. 2) business houses constantly influence and lobby for favorable policies, so chances of a law with exploitable loopholes getting passed is a easy possibility. 3) not only character, but a sharp acumen is needed to form a great policy in any field - which is favorable for the nation, - which is again a rarity(the best may also fail, in a sense that some lawyer will become politician and start exploiting the loopholes.). can anyone ever tell how much water did the fish drink? you can't trust fish with water.
Our target and goal is very clear: corruption free politics and corruption free civil-service (all grades a to z, governance, law and media), to achieve that goal we want Jan-Lokpal an independent watchman+Juror of our democracy.
never ever get into the trap of saying, that we are demanding or suggesting: corruption free society - even Gods failed trying that, i guess. After their multiple incarnations, this is where we are today...
