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American hypocrisy in an Age degraded and debauched by the American dollar is a fashionable vice and all fashionable vices pass for virtue in the world today. In keeping with the true American diplomatic tradition of treachery and double standards as the self-assumed and self-declared Policeman of the World, American President Bush, the hypocrite, by playing one and the same part has at last ceased to be a hypocrite in the eyes of the world. His declared maxim is: “I mean not to run with the hare and hold with the hound”.

U.S. denial of visa to the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is a National Insult not only to the Gujaratis but to all of us. All the political parties of India must unite on this issue and speak in one voice to American President Bush and say: “For Baptist God’s sake let us all have done with your brazen brand of hypocrisy in the name of protection of Human Rights, eradication of international terrorism, and removal of weapons of Mass Destruction etc”. Bush is attempting to promote the globalization of terrorism after his very mild, humane, civilized and constitutional war against terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq.

I would like to confer on American President Bush the honorific title of General Dyer of America. On April 13th 1919 when a peaceful citizen’s meeting was being held at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, General Dyer entered through the only available path of the Bagh and ruthlessly shot 1,600 rounds. The Massacre at Jallianwala Bagh and the Martial Law regime in the undivided Punjab stands as one of the blackest deeds in the two centuries of British Administration in India. This event marked the beginning of the epic struggle between the Indian National Congress and the Government which later manifested itself in the form of Non-Cooperation, Salt Satyagraha and Quit India Movements. The whole of the country was stirred up by the Tragedy. Gandhiji returned his Kaisar-i-Hind Medal and organized country-wide agitation. Rabindranath Tagore wrote a letter to the Viceroy renouncing his Knighthood. These were his historic words:

“The enormity of the measures taken by the Government has, with a rude shock, reveal to our mind the helplessness of our position as British Subjects in India. The disproportionate severity of the punishments inflicted upon the unfortunate people and the methods of carrying them out, we are convinced, are without parallel in the history of civilized Governments, barring some conspicuous exceptions, recent or remote. Considering such treatment has been meted out to a population, disarmed and resourceless, by a power which has the most terribly efficient organization for destruction of human lives, we must strongly assert that it can claim no political expediency, far less moral justification. The accounts of the insults and sufferings undergone by our brothers in the Punjab have trickled through the gagged silence, reaching every corner of India, and the universal agony of indignation roused in the hearts of our people has been ignored by our Rulers---possibly congratulating themselves for imparting what they imagine salutary lessons”.

All the Members of Parliament in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, all the MLA’s in all the State Assemblies and Assemblies in the Union territories should pass a unanimous resolution against Bush and his Government for this calculated insult to our National Honour by denying Visa to an elected Chief Minister. The sordid American track record of issuing Visas and providing creature comforts to known international criminals from every world of crime in every part of the world is too well known to merit any detailed description. In one voice every Indian must make it clear to Bush the Bully that India is not Iraq; India is not Afghanistan: India is not South America.

Abraham Lincoln, the great American President proclaimed in the latter half of the 19th century: “With goodwill towards all and malice towards none”. Bush the Bully proclaims to the world today: “Let us all brace ourselves to deeds of International terror and if America and its wealth last for a thousand years, men will still say ‘This was their meanest hour’”

V.Sundaram, IAS

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