kudos to police for enforcing silence

Kudos to the police, especially vijayanagar for porviding DIG Sharat Chandra a quiet oasis in this manmade noisy hell that Bangalore has become. We need more 45-65 db voices against noise and air pollution. 1500 tonnes of petroleum product pollutants spilled into air around Bangalore by the combustion of 6000 tonnes per day. Surely that should qualify Bangalore as the global Respiratory Disorder capital. Golden silence, a constitutional right, the default in rural areas should become mandatory in urban localities too.. 45-65 db noise for urban residential is explicit in supreme court orders, which if enforced in letter and spirit, effectively ban honking 24/7. Such imaginary visions raise hopes of a silent heaven in the unprotesting public suffering environmentally induced deafness. Since they are unfortunately disobeyed and amount to contempt. While we are grateful to Traffic super cop Saleem for what he has done, he should immediately crack down on vehicles using illegal loud horns. Honking is explicitly banned between 10pm and 6 am and in silent zones and a means of effective implementation should be evolved. Supreme court orders need to be enforced without waiting for complaints from the suffering public, so that the authorities are not under constant threat of contempt of court.

cutting off the face to spite the nose!

This amounts to cutting off the face to spite the nose. More specific means of targetting the evil makers can and should be designed, instead of punishing the many for the crimes of a few . Theres no guarantee that this move will ensure the goals. In fact complete freedom will flush them out.

http://www.change.org/petitions/mps-of-india-support-the-annulment-motion-to-protect-internet-freedom-stopitrules#

power is double edged sword

These Hitlerian politicians become paranoid about their "image" once they come to power. What was their trademarks- shrill rhetoric, stinging words become double edged swords now they are in power.It doesnot matter whether it is jayalalitha, Mayawati or Mamata. Now they suddenly realize how damaging such retaliations and lack of tolerance to criticism can do to their image! \

http://www.bangaloremirror.com/article/14/20120414201204141312576871335c2d7/Is-Mamata-Benerjee-right-in-arresting-the-professor-who-posted-her-cartoon-on-the-internet.html