Return of the angels
SHAKESPEARE wrote: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Similarly, politicians in our country are also angels in different forms in the eyes of their supporters. They were once angels of death, destruction, corruption and chaos, and the nation was afraid for its existence. Missiles were thrown, bombs were planted, bystanders beaten to death in the so-called processions, somabesh and mohasomabesh, just to display party muscle.
The citizens did not feel safe outside and not even inside of their own homes. Nothing could be done to the perpetrators. The angels guided the law to take its own course: George Miahs were created, Bangla Bhais were denied existence. Muggers, mastans, and Molom Parties had their field day.
No parent felt safe while their children were out to school, no wife could stay in peace until her husband returned, and brothers were lynched to death for protesting mastans' indecent proposals towards their sisters.
The angels paid no heed to the plight of common mass, they were busy making their fortune on the strength of their political positions and connections. Massive funds ear-marked for the poorest of the poor, food for starving masses were stolen, and billions of dollars was siphoned out of this poor country. Even the elderly and educated angels, whom the nation revered as honest guardians, participated in the shameless loot.
Then came 1/11. The nation with wide eyes pleasantly observed that the new guardians touched the untouchables and put them in jail that was known to us mere mortals as Hell. The charisma of these angels are such that Hell transformed for them: good food was served while the millions starved due to rampaging food prices, TVs and air conditioners were installed to match the status of the angels, cabins of the hospitals were emptied of dying patients to make space for the angels suffering from headache. The public suffered silently the marauding unheard of price hike of essentials, in the hope that the guardians will at least keep these angels of death, destruction and chaos inside the four walls.
Now what does the public see? The new guardians are failing to put most of these angels to task for their misdeeds. Even the ones taken in on charges of criminal offences as serious as "accomplice to murder" and "obstruction of justice" are being freed on political considerations. The angels went in with victory sign and are coming out garlanded. They are being let loose -- one conjectures with raging anger, bitterness, and thirst for vengeance.
Now, the mortals have some questions for the self imposed guardians:
- How can someone with 12 cases get "jamin" in a spate of weeks while victims like George Mia are in custody for much longer.
- If you did not have the wherewithal to punish them, why did you put them through this process of faulty justice? After they come out unpunished, we would lose our privilege to brand them corrupt.
- Why should the nation bear the huge financial burden you incurred in the seven star treatment of their accommodation, food, and medical treatment?
Finally, dear guardians, if you are planning to leave the nation in the same condition as before your arrival (if not worse), then why did you put us through the fiasco of a broken dream?
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