Feminist MP Kanimozhi is in Jail for Scam. PDF Print E-mail
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Written by sumanth   
Friday, 20 May 2011 19:57

What a week it was!! First it is the Dominique Strauss-Kahn, chief of one of the most Anti-Male organisation IMF goes to jail for sexual assault on a maid in a New York Hotel.Then, the radical feminist communists (of AIDWA) tasted failure after their party CPM lost the West Bengal State elections miserably.

Today, Indian Feminist MP Kanimozhi is sent to New Delhi's high secuirty Tihar Jail for being a co-conspirator in 2G Spectrum Scam.

Kanimozhi was one of the potential candidates to be India's Women and Child Minister, after a coalition by her party and Congress won  national elections in 2009.

She and her lawyer pleaded for bail in the court saying,"she should be given bail because she is a woman".  It is a victory for India's constitution that the judge did not think about chivalry and applied gender equal principles. While pleading for bail expecting "chivalry from judge", Kanimozhi her Lawyer Ram Jethmalani choose to forget that more than 163,000 Indian women are arrested in non-bailable warrents without trial, investigations or evindence and are sent to jail in last 5 years under section 498a of IPC.

Karma has completed a full cycle. It is not a co-incidence that the worst violators on Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 are now hit with scams and many of them are going to jails. The Speaker of lower house of Indian Parliament, Meira Kumar has openly supported violations of Universal Declaration of Human Rights, by saying that Section 498a of IPC is to be retained as it is. Section 498a of IPC considers all the accused men, women and children to be guilty till proven innocent. Accusing someone under Section 498a in India is as easy as "ordering a pizza".

Kanimozhi's arrest is certainly a strong message to Indian Feminists in general and Women MPs in particular.

Now, they should stop crying discrimination if women are allowed to join certain departments of Army, Navy or Airforce.

If a MP like Kanimozhi does not want to go to jail for being a woman, then it is very likely that during a war, females in Army will say,"we do not want to go to war, because we are women." Then, what is the point of fatting up these women by recruiting them in army in peacetime?

With Kanimozhi's arrest the true face of modern day feminists has come out in open. They want all the rights, but they do not want to take any responsibilities. With such feminists in Indian Parliament, it is not dangerous if there is a woman's reservation in parliament, by denying men to contest in those 30% reserved seats?

When Kanimozhi can claim that she is a woman and hence she does not want to go to jail and when the female speaker openly violates Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 by supporting opposing amendment of section 498a, will India be safe with higher number of women in parliament? Everyone has to be concerned about these feminists reaching parliament to unleash a massive gender war and destroy India's age old family system using all kinds of fascist laws, which consider the accused men to guiloty till proven innocent.

All men's rights activists have to celebrate this weekend because a big feminist MP has gone to Tohar Jail. Now, her appeal for bail from any high court or supreme court must also be rejected. It is to be noted that her father M.Karunanidhi has married 3 times and two of his wives are living.

A great article in Indian Express, http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Trump-Card/787732/

Trump Card

Posted: Mon May 09 2011, 00:51 hrs

Till Thursday, every news channel in India was carrying a quote by Kanimozhi that said, “I don’t expect preferential treatment because I’m a woman”. She is chargesheeted by the CBI for her alleged role in the 2G spectrum case, where many others implicated are already languishing in jail. By Friday, Kanimozhi’s lawyer, Ram Jethmalani, had appealed at the “Victorian sense of chivalry” in court, that “allows differential treatment for women”. Who can blame Kanimozhi for making a last ditch effort to stay out of Tihar Jail? Even though it is in complete contradiction to the very politically correct stand she’s fought for while in office so far: empowerment of women. It’s an extremely weak Get Out Of Jail Free card, but then desperate situations call for desperate measures.

History is replete with examples of damsels in distress appealing to a sense of chivalry in men, to be let off the hook. And it usually works. In 1535, when Rani Karnavati realised she couldn’t defend Chittor against an invasion by the Sultan of Gujarat, she sent a rakhi to Humayun, appealing for his help. Touched, Humayun rushed off to help her, but didn’t reach in time: the Rani had already immolated herself to avoid dishonour. Society tends to endorse this view. Accepted protocol in marine disasters is “women and children first”, when the lives of a group of people are at stake. But nowhere does gender come to the rescue of women more than in the US death penalty system. In all of the 20th century, just 500-odd women were executed, while there were over 19,000 confirmed executions of men in the same time span in the US.

What does chivalry mean today? To me, it conjures up images of a Georgette Heyer hero, or King Arthur’s knights, hunting and slaying dragons for a living. In Mad Men, the cult TV show on advertising set in 1960’s New York, the men are always paying the bills and pulling out chairs for women, but they also always hand them their coats and hats to hang, a maddeningly patronising gesture. Chivalry is too old fashioned a term, it applies to a world that no longer exists. Courtesy is a better word for our times and it should extend to both genders. I think it’s nice when a man opens a door for me if he happens to be there, but I don’t expect him to leap out of nowhere, or run forward to yank the door open so I can glide through

effortlessly. In fact, I feel a little embarrassed on the Delhi Metro Women’s compartment, where you can languorously stretch out and read a newspaper, while watching the men packed like sardines, trying their best not to spill over onto the ladies side.

 

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