CORPORATES: NATION NEEDS YOU
If an ordinary man like me and millions of other ordinary citizens of India can have the anger against frequent terror attacks, specially Mumbai terror attack, on our nation, i am sure you must also be equally anguished like all of us. Just imagine, if one of your dear ones would have been killed in The Taj Hotel, Trident Hotel or CST Railway station in Mumbai, how would you have reacted ? Just put yourself in the shoes of those families, whose nearest and dearest have died, without any fault of theirs. Their only fault was that they happened to be at the above places, when terror struck
You have seen the impotence and apathy of the Govt. in front of you. Just a lip talk and saying harsh words, which have no meaning for all of us as there is no concrete action against terror. This will keep on happening, every now and then and innocent people will keep on getting maimed without any fault of theirs. The Govt has shown that it is a soft state and can do nothing about it. The reason is that these politicians have commandos around them to protect them, which we dont have, as we are just cockroaches. I am sure, if one or two politicians would have been killed in a terror strike, strigent measures would have been taken by them overnite. But nothing of this sort has happened so far and never will, as they all have a security cordon around them at the cost of your and our tax money.
It becomes imperative for all of us to think how we citizens can protect ourselves and each one of us from these terror attacks. Asking and requesting security from the govt, is like living in a fool's paradise. Govt. is just buying time as they know that our memory is very short and with time, we shall forget everything, which is true.
Since we ordinary citizens do not have the resources to protect ourselves, your moral role starts from here.. You are big houses and business leaders in your respective fields and employ millions of people who work for your companies. Is it not your duty to protect their lives ? Are your lives more precious than them ? Please dont forget that if our nation's security is in danger, then your security is automatically is threatened too. How can you run business in this country where people are full of fear and anger ?
Since you have the power, money and resources, it becomes your prime duty to give back to the nation at this time, in this hour of crisis. If you can change the policies of the govt. as per your requirement because of your political clout, you can certainly prevail upon the govt. to strengthen nation's security and the security of its citizens. If the govt. does not act, stop paying taxes and twist the govt's arm to deliver on security.
Even on your own, you can contribute a lot, independent of the govt, for the security of the nation, where you are born. If your companies can spend billions of dollars for foreign acquisitions and assests all over the world, if you can buy a 250 crore jet for your wife and another 400 crore for a yacht, again for your wife as a gift, if you can build a skyscraper costing 8000 crores as a house, i am sure you can buy cheap bullet proof jackets, modern weapons for our police, who can fight effectively with the terrorists. You can set up a corpus fund dedicated to the police for their modernisation and training for modern warfare, which is the need of the day to fight tech-savvy terrorists.. To monitor, learning from the govt's track record, you can set up a regulatory body to ensure that the funds are properly utilised and not misused. To be more a safer side, if you feel the right and tranparent way to approach this, would be to buy modern weapons and equipment directly would be the right way, you can do so and deliver directly to the police. You can create a " Security Club " thru which you can transfer funds to train the police in 4th generation warfare.
I am sure, you will listen to the call of your heart and the nation at this hour of crisis, where we do not find any answers. You will secure yourself, ordinary citizens and the police. Above all your nation. If you can do this, nobody can stop you for going to the parliament and thus govern the country proffessionly as you run your companies.
COME AND JOIN. NATION NEEDS YOU. KUCCH KARO
You have seen the impotence and apathy of the Govt. in front of you. Just a lip talk and saying harsh words, which have no meaning for all of us as there is no concrete action against terror. This will keep on happening, every now and then and innocent people will keep on getting maimed without any fault of theirs. The Govt has shown that it is a soft state and can do nothing about it. The reason is that these politicians have commandos around them to protect them, which we dont have, as we are just cockroaches. I am sure, if one or two politicians would have been killed in a terror strike, strigent measures would have been taken by them overnite. But nothing of this sort has happened so far and never will, as they all have a security cordon around them at the cost of your and our tax money.
It becomes imperative for all of us to think how we citizens can protect ourselves and each one of us from these terror attacks. Asking and requesting security from the govt, is like living in a fool's paradise. Govt. is just buying time as they know that our memory is very short and with time, we shall forget everything, which is true.
Since we ordinary citizens do not have the resources to protect ourselves, your moral role starts from here.. You are big houses and business leaders in your respective fields and employ millions of people who work for your companies. Is it not your duty to protect their lives ? Are your lives more precious than them ? Please dont forget that if our nation's security is in danger, then your security is automatically is threatened too. How can you run business in this country where people are full of fear and anger ?
Since you have the power, money and resources, it becomes your prime duty to give back to the nation at this time, in this hour of crisis. If you can change the policies of the govt. as per your requirement because of your political clout, you can certainly prevail upon the govt. to strengthen nation's security and the security of its citizens. If the govt. does not act, stop paying taxes and twist the govt's arm to deliver on security.
Even on your own, you can contribute a lot, independent of the govt, for the security of the nation, where you are born. If your companies can spend billions of dollars for foreign acquisitions and assests all over the world, if you can buy a 250 crore jet for your wife and another 400 crore for a yacht, again for your wife as a gift, if you can build a skyscraper costing 8000 crores as a house, i am sure you can buy cheap bullet proof jackets, modern weapons for our police, who can fight effectively with the terrorists. You can set up a corpus fund dedicated to the police for their modernisation and training for modern warfare, which is the need of the day to fight tech-savvy terrorists.. To monitor, learning from the govt's track record, you can set up a regulatory body to ensure that the funds are properly utilised and not misused. To be more a safer side, if you feel the right and tranparent way to approach this, would be to buy modern weapons and equipment directly would be the right way, you can do so and deliver directly to the police. You can create a " Security Club " thru which you can transfer funds to train the police in 4th generation warfare.
I am sure, you will listen to the call of your heart and the nation at this hour of crisis, where we do not find any answers. You will secure yourself, ordinary citizens and the police. Above all your nation. If you can do this, nobody can stop you for going to the parliament and thus govern the country proffessionly as you run your companies.
COME AND JOIN. NATION NEEDS YOU. KUCCH KARO
posted by vaneet kundra at
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
7 Comments:
Dear Vaneet,
India is a very rich country and can provide best of the equipments and tools to its security forces, only if there is a political will to provide security to each and every citizen of this great country. You had talked about Swiss bank accounts earlier, about which we need to initiate action. Rest of the problems of the Nation will be taken care of automatically with thousands of people of your thoughts, who need to come in the fore front for the revolution. I'm appending below some more info on Swiss bank accounts for spreading it around to invoke National rage and concern and initiation of some positve action:
IS INDIA A POOR COUNTRY?
Revelation of Swiss bank accounts
This is so shocking.......If black money deposits was an Olympics event.... India would have won a gold medal hands down. The second best Russia has 4 times lesser deposit. U.S. is not even there in the counting in top five! India has more money in Swiss banks than all the other countries combined!
Recently, due to international pressure, the Swiss government agreed to disclose the names of the account holders only if the respective governments formally asked for it. Indian government is not asking for the details.......no marks for guessing why?
We need to start a movement to pressurise the government to do so! This is perhaps the only way, and a golden opportunity, to expose the high and mighty and weed out corruption!
Please read on......and forward to all the honest Indians to.....like somebody is forwarding to you.......and build a ground-swell of support for action!
Is India poor, who says? Ask the Swiss banks. With personal account deposit bank of $1,500 billion in foreign reserve which have been misappropriated, an amount 13 times larger than the country's foreign debt, one needs to rethink if India is a poor country?
DISHONEST INDUSTRIALISTS, scandalous politicians and corrupt IAS, IRS, IPS officers have deposited in foreign banks in their illegal personal accounts a sum of about $1500 billion, which have been misappropriated by them. This amount is about 13 times larger than the country's foreign debt. With this amount 45 crore poor people can get Rs 1,00,000 each. This huge amount has been appropriated from the people of India by exploiting and betraying them. Once this huge amount of black money and property comes back to India , the entire foreign debt can be repaid in 24 hours. After paying the entire foreign debt, we will have surplus amount, almost 12 times larger than the foreign debt. If this surplus amount is invested in earning interest, the amount of interest will be more than the annual budget of the Central government. So even if all the taxes are abolished, then also the Central government will be able to maintain the country very comfortably.
Some 80,000 people travel to Switzerland every year, of whom 25,000 travel very frequently. 'Obviously, these people won't be tourists. They must be travelling there for some other reason,' believes an official involved in tracking illegal money. And, clearly, he isn't referring to the commerce ministry bureaucrats who've been flitting in and out of Geneva ever since the World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations went into a tailspin!
Just read the following details and note how these dishonest industrialists, scandalous politicians, corrupt officers, cricketers, film actors, illegal sex trade and protected wildlife operators, to name just a few, sucked this country's wealth and prosperity. This may be the picture of deposits in Swiss banks only. What about other international banks?
Black money in Swiss banks -- Swiss Banking Association report, 2006 details bank deposits in the territory of Switzerland by nationals of following countries:
TOP FIVE
INDIA $1,456 BILLION
RUSSIA $470 BILLION
U.K. $390 BILLION
UKRAINE $100 BILLION
CHINA $96 BILLION
Now do the math's - India with $1,456 billion or $1.4 trillion has more money in Swiss banks than rest of the world combined. Public loot since 1947:
Can we bring back our money? It is one of the biggest loots witnessed by mankind -- the loot of the Aam Aadmi (common man) since 1947, by his brethren occupying public office. It has been orchestrated by politicians, bureaucrats and some businessmen.
The list is almost all-encompassing. No wonder, everyone in India loots with impunity and without any fear. What is even more depressing in that this ill-gotten wealth of ours has been stashed away abroad into secret bank accounts located in some of the world's best known tax havens. And to that extent the Indian economy has been stripped of its wealth. Ordinary Indians may not be exactly aware of how such secret accounts operate and what are the rules and regulations that go on to govern such tax havens. However, one may well be aware of 'Swiss bank accounts,' the shorthand for murky dealings, secrecy and of course pilferage from developing countries into rich developed ones.
In fact, some finance experts and economists believe tax havens to be a conspiracy of the western world against the poor countries. By allowing the proliferation of tax havens in the twentieth century, the western world explicitly encourages the movement of scarce capital from the developing countries to the rich. In March 2005, the Tax Justice Network (TJN) published a research finding demonstrating that $11.5 trillion of personal wealth was held offshore by rich individuals across the globe.
The findings estimated that a large proportion of this wealth was managed from some 70 tax havens. Further, augmenting these studies of TJN, Raymond Baker -- in his widely celebrated book titled 'Capitalism's Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free Market System' -- estimates that at least $5 trillion have been shifted out of poorer countries to the West since the mid-1970.
It is further estimated by experts that one per cent of the world's population holds more than 57 per cent of total global wealth, routing it invariably through these tax havens. How much of this is from India is anybody's guess.
What is to be noted here is that most of the wealth of Indians parked in these tax havens is illegitimate money acquired through corrupt means. Naturally, the secrecy associated with the bank accounts in such places is central to the issue, not their low tax rates as the term 'tax havens' suggests. Remember Bofors and how India could not trace the ultimate beneficiary of those transactions because of the secrecy associated with these bank accounts?
IS THERE ANYONE WHO CAN SAVE INDIA?
PASS IT ON IF YOU WISH INDIA GOOD..............
What a new thought ? keep it up..
Dear Cdr Khilari & Deepak
Thanks. You wrote your comments after a long gap. But you have hit the Bull's eye. Regarding swiss banks accounts, i have repeatedly written to the print media to expose people, who have stashed away nation's wealth, but i fail to understand till today, neither do i get the reply, nor does the media takes notice of it. I am sure the media is hand in glove with these people. They have to tool to milk these swiss bank holders, whenever media threatens to bring it out to the public eye. I am sure the media guys must have made lot of money by blackmailing these people. I wont be surprised, if they too would have opened their own accounts in swiss banks by this blackmailing money. All are corrupt. Where should we knock the door to expose them, i really dont know till today. Its only possible, if we bribe the media too, but that amount has to be more than these politicians pay to them. The whole system is a nexus, which is difficult to break but that does not mean we should stop trying. There are still good people in all fields but their voice is too low to be heard.
Dear Jhangora,
I am thankful to you for having made technical settings for my blog. Your kind of people are very rare who volunteer to do someone's job. I am indebted to you. Many thanks
I think the need of the hour is of changing our mindsets.
"Lets stop asking the government or others about doing things for the country. Instead , lets start doing OUR BIT for the country.
Lets start thinking of our duties & not about our rights.
Dear Dr Rohit Omprakash,
Truly said. But how can we make our security, when all of us have limited resources ? I agree we should concentrate more on our duties than rights. But we demand a basic security, which the govt, can only provide. If govt. has the right to collect hundrerds kinds of taxes from you, you atleast expect a basic security from the govt. You cant have your private army for security.
Comments on my 1st page dt 5th aug, 2008 " KUCCH KARO- WHY WRITING A BLOG " recd. today
Dear Air Cmde Raghubir Singh,
I can feel the anguish among all of us, specially the armed forces. Your point is fully valid and i endorse it in toto. Playing political games and communal card is the prime agenda of the govt. All of us feel helpless and frustrated by the govt, as it is sending confused signals across the border. Today i am going to write all about this. Our voices do reach the Govt, but they do not act upon it. Now the time has come, that we all should be united in our resolve to press the govt for firm action against the enemy. I am quite optimistic, this time, that things will roll. Let us hope for the best.
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