Should Kasab hang?
The trial of the 26/11 accused has vindicated India's often criticised judicial system: justice has not only been done, but has been seen to be done. The sheer scale of the assault and the cold-blooded massacre of innocents inevitably excited repugnance and rage: the lone assailant to be taken alive must pay the ultimate penalty for his unforgivable crime. That is the natural first response: hang him. Everyone, survivors of the attack, friends and families of the victims, and commentators and opinion makers, seems to want the death penalty for Kasab. A media-created 'celebrity' has played to the gallery by pronouncing that hanging is too good for the Butcher of Mumbai, who should have his 'arms and legs chopped off'. Such remarks reveal the betrayal that lies at the heart of all acts of revenge: the brutal exactitude of the calculus of vengeance - an eye for an eye - leaves everyone blind, the perpetrator of the original crime and those who seek to redress it.
Hang Kasab? By all means. So long as we know it's an emotional reaction of revenge, and not a rational response to an inhumanly savage act of violence which the killer's death can only compound, never mitigate. Instead of hanging him, bury him alive in prison.
I also heard that one of the fisherman in gujrat has not got the compensation till now,they says give kasab to them then they will get the compensation,what a good idea.Govt is spending lot of money for kasab,why they cannot pay the compensation and asking for the death body of a death person.Govt should think out of the BOX.
And yes why all says kill kasab he kills so many people I understand but whats in all this "Usne mara to ham bhi use marenge"then what the difference between him and us.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
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