I completely agree with the views of the IAS officer and have maintained a similar stand from the beginning in my views on the subject.
The shoe was not aimed at Mr. Chidambaram personally but on the politicians fraternity as a mark of a polite protest. The only way to stop this from becoming a trend is that our dear politicians clean up their act. Otherwise they will have to bear the brunt of their own deeds in similar or may be through even more violent ways.
This was a warning. They better take heed or be prepared to face the people...
Regards,
Vibhuti
On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 Prime Point Srinivasan wrote :
>dear friends
>
>The discussion on the shoe incident (thought of coining a new word Shoecast
>like broadcast, podcast) brought out various angles and dimensions. On the
>one hand, it is argued that no journalist should bring in his personal
>emotions to the forums like the press conference. It is also argued that
>journalists should show his neutrality.
>
>On the other hand, it is also argued that journalists are also human beings
>and when the emotions exceed their tolerance level, such things happen. If
>an ordinary citizen has shown the protest like this, he would have been put
>under 'Goondas Act'. Since, the protest was shown by a journalist, the
>Government could not do any thing, for fear of backlash. It is also argued
>that none of the media houses will be interested to take the public issues
>and public sentiments very seriously, for many reasons, including commercial
>reasons. In that case, it is argued, a emotionally charged reporter would
>react only like this.
>
>On analysing both sides of the incident, when the Government Authorities
>behave in an arrogant manner, how the people would protest? How the protest
>can be exhibited without being branded as 'Goonda'?
>
>I discussed this issue with one of the retired IAS officers, who held very
>high positions in the Central Government. He did not want to be identfied.
>He said that many times Government Authorities show scant respect to the
>Constituional positions and even they do not respect the consensus. The
>power of arrogance blinds their eyes. He quoted for example, inspite of all
>controversies, Pratibha Patil was put up as a Presidential candidate.
>Inspite of all controversies, Navin Chawla was made as CEC. Though many
>consensus candidates were avaiable then, Government was not willing to
>consider. Now, against the Sikh sentiments, Sajjan Kumar and Jagadish
>Tytler were given tickets and given clean chit hurriedly, particularly
>during election time. . He went on to say that such acts, arising out of "
>what-can-you-
>to frustration and people look for some ways to ventilate the anger.
>
>According to the retired senior official, such incidents are not avoidable
> from the common man. Irked by the arrogant attitude of Government, Jarnail
>Singh used the opportunity to show his protest. Jarnail Singh did not
>target the Minister, but protested by throwing the shoe to a nearby open
>space. he retired senior bureaucrat was asking a question, when the
>Government itself was not worried about the ethics, values of the
>constitutional bodies, where was the question of talking about the
>professional ethics of a journalist. He wanted the Government Authorities
>to learn a lesson out of this incident.
>
>I request members to share the views. I think, we need to start thinking
>about 'protest communication'
>
>Srinivasan
>Moderator
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