Our silences are adding up, will rebound upon us – National Herald

Lets not argue that point, contentious and somewhat erroneous as it is. Instead, heres a question for us: Do we have to succumb?

Whats in it for us, the people, in the long run? Whats it been for any population ruled by an iron, unyielding hand for generations? Is North Korea our goal? Saudi Arabia? Party rule in China? Stalins USSR? You dream of rotting in the Gulag so you can write a book like Solzhenitsyn?

After you have killed and incarcerated people of all the religions you dislike, locked up and tortured women, turned those you consider below you into slaves, what do you imagine your life will be like? Will the Leader and his coterie share the spoils with you as you while away your days covered in ghee and khoya?

Whatever fools paradise you concoct in your head, its not going to happen. The more we do nothing or worse, do not take it seriously, when ordinary citizens, journalists, business people, investigative officers, judges are found to have been spied upon by the Government, the more you look back into the distant past to justify the State allowing the police to book anyone they wish under the National Security Act, when the police continue to use a law struck down years ago to imprison people, when the Government lies about the devastating deaths caused by a pandemic and takes vindictive action against those who reports on the sufferingall these silences add up. They rebound on you. And the consequences will be borne by all of us.

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