Robert Clements Creak! Squeak! Creak! I'm trying to open a window; amazed at the audacity of a government telling me what to do and when.
"You can't buy liquor today?" "Why?" "Because it's a dry day!" "Dry day?" "It's the birth anniversary of our revered leader!" "There may be people who would celebrate a birthday with a glass in their hand?" "That's against our culture!" "Are you sure?" "Yes!" "Lets open that window and see what you mean by our culture! Hey what's that guy sipping while his family watches TV? And in the next house and the next and the next, what's that sound? It's the clinking of glasses, the opening of bottles, the laughter of men as they listen to one another's stories!" "Close those windows!" "Want to open the windows of our political leaders and see the same thing?" "Close the windows!" "Why? Before the world sees our hypocrisy? That a dry day is a wet one behind closed windows? Tell me, how much does the Supreme Court fine political leaders for enforcing a bandh?" "Why?" "Because the same fine should be levied on the government!" "On the government?" "Yeah for enforcing their 'dry day' bandh on people! Like goondas go about downing shutters against our will, the government is imposing its will on my freedom of choice! It is my right to decide what I want to do, and no goonda or government has the right to impose themselves on me!" "But drinking on voting day could cause a law and order situation!" "So arrest those who cause problems, like you arrest those who drink and drive!" "Now close the windows!" "No!" I said, "Let the world see our hypocrisy!" I heard the angry sound of windows being closed and looked out to see bootleggers and illicit liquor sellers looking at me angrily, "We are closing the windows!" they shouted.
"Because hypocrisy is profitable!" they shouted and laughed as they passed a bottle through the window to the people inside, then banged it shut..! bobsbanter@gmail.com About us | Advertise | Other Publications | Subscriptions | Weather | Letters | Send Mail Disclaimer: Information is being made available at this site purely as a measure of public facilitation.
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