Dear Editor,
Lawmakers and law enforcers have become a law unto themselves. They answer only to each other. They have fostered a mutual protection arrangement, where the overarching motto is: by any means necessary. Recent history provides ample testimony on this near total disregard for law and society. Here are some examples ranging from the depraved to the deadly.
A drunken brawl involving a two-sided dispute over a triangle resulted in the force of guns, and the forced birth of family. This petered out into an “internal matter.” Drag racing deaths are obliterated to the ignominy of an out of court settlement. Other operas involving guiding lights about scams, corruption, and assorted assaults on society’s consciousness have all been first stonewalled, then submerged out of existence. This has become the norm, almost a sub-culture by itself. Enforcers of the law observed-or participated in-these shenanigans and realized that the coast was clear and that it was now open season to imitate the masters, and even to anticipate what would be pleasing to them.
The coast was clear to uphold the banner of law and order using any means necessary. It was only a matter of time before the occasional justifiable use of deadly force metamorphosed, through bullets and bodies, into borderline killings, suspicious killings, mysterious executions, and plain murder. Any means necessary now brought the nation to the landscape of the ultimate. One littered with boulders destructive and immovable.
Boulders of shakedowns (tapes); torture (Consular court transcripts); and more murder (Coast Guard); boulders best exemplified by the disbanding of a so-called crack unit now out of uniform and running downhill at the behest of the usual bidders.
By any means necessary is the official stonewall that is partly dissembling, mostly obfuscation, and conveniently silent, as appropriate. The Praetorian Guards must be insulated for they have seen the senators unrobed, and know the location of telltale marks (and skeletons). These disciples of the devil who have done dirty deeds must be protected from the heat coming down. It is why there is the compartmentalization of barbarity through a growing vocabulary of its own: known characters, rogue elements, waiting on the DPP.
By any means necessary is to protect the status quo, to enrich, to cover-up, to derail. Even to kill. It works for this deadly duet embraced in a danse macabre, to the detriment of larger society. Steps of malfeasance form a dance of depravity, which has become a swirl of criminality. The bad news is that this has become so intricately enmeshed as to be almost inextricable and near insoluble. There is a sense of pervasive contamination at the internal level; and there is the verdict handed down to prearranged external tentacles. There is the fact that both internal and external, and state and paramilitary, now hold us hostage and on our knees. Such are the fruits of by any means necessary. In the midst of all of this, what is all this excitement over a little torture?
Yours faithfully,
GHK Lall
