RE: [IAC++] DEMAND -- REMOVE VIP SECURITY & GIVE TO PEOPLE

Dear all, Vidyut is bang right. We've to be innovative and try new and ingenious ways to kick the butt of corruption. The old orthadox methods have failed. Educating the public on the virtues of a corrupt free society is going to take generations as we are well entrenched in corruption and we see a strong degeneration in societal valyes over the last 67 years. Small corruption indulged by ordinary measely people unchallenged has grown to Frankenstein proportions. We are all part and parcel of this degeneration. We cannot sit in ivory towers and speak theories. We need to get down to brasstack actions on the ground.

I for one have been suggesting and assisting government to eradicate corruption by introducing biometric tracking of transactions. The expetiments in Bihar is a testimony.

Simultaneously the currency has to be demonetised. Once we remove Rs. 1,000 and Rs. 500 denomination currencies and ask people to prove their ownership when they surrender to banks would be the first step in the right direction.

Sarbajit and may be others in this group are trivialising this idea. But I'm sure it's a workable idea. It'll remove the get rich quick, fly by night operators. It'll remove the power out of politicians, bureaucrats, businessmen, etc. when transaction tracking and transparency are introduced. What better opportunity than now? It's now or never. Better late than never.

Kris Dev.


-----Original Message-----
From: Vidyut Kale
Sent: 23/12/2012 12:36:16 pm
Subject: Re: [IAC++] DEMAND -- REMOVE VIP SECURITY & GIVE TO PEOPLE

Warning: Unparliamentary language follows.

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Are we decided that this group is a permanent pissing contest? In which
case, it doesn't make sense to invest time.

If we are serious about this being a space to fight corruption and engineer
better accountability and transparency, then the urgent need RIGHT NOW is
to stop sneering and baiting and overall trying to prove who is the bigger
dick. Get to work, whoever is the genius will get noticed.

Or start a thread for "My halo is bigger than yours" and put all the crap
there so people not interested can forward it to trash.

I agree there are many great patriots and veterans and all kinds of
creative and useful people here, but we need to get over the school hangup
that there can be only one great and credible person in a given space.

I thank you for bringing in all your special strengths and hope we can use
them to kick the butt of corruption instead of deciding who is greater
*before* doing anything.

Vidyut
PS: I am female. So avoid the Mr.Vidyut replies.