{"id":2696,"date":"2003-03-18T23:21:48","date_gmt":"2003-03-18T17:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/18\/surely-youre-joking-jk\/"},"modified":"2003-03-18T23:21:48","modified_gmt":"2003-03-18T17:51:48","slug":"surely-youre-joking-jk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200303\/surely-youre-joking-jk\/","title":{"rendered":"Surely you’re joking JK?"},"content":{"rendered":"

JK says in my comments section<\/a> <\/p>\n

If Arundhati utters a word, we should unleash a massive weblog retaliation against her lies Our MOAB<\/small><\/cite><\/p>\n

Actually, I thought I had a better idea. Since ’tis the season for preemptive attack, I thought I’d start first. The Examined Life<\/i> moles found an advance copy of the essay that she has submitted to the Guardian<\/i>. The essay is post-dated April 1, 2003 <\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/b>

The dirty family secret that Bush prays will never be published is that Saddam is his alter ego, the Frankenstein’s monster that his father created. While Saddam is going around committing a little genocide here and a little ethnic cleansing there, Bush is trying to live up to the standards set by his creation – locking up people without a trial, squelching free speech and bombing a couple of countries back into stone age to establish a democracy there. And while he is at it, can he direct a couple of his PGMs towards Gujarat where the fascist Hindu Nationalist government led by a certain Narendra Modi is carrying out its own little project of ethnocide in cahoots with the forces of corporate globalisation? While his stormtroopers are creating mayhem buring trains, raping women and demolishing mosques, he is surreptitiously carrying out his hidden agenda of privatising water supply through the sinister Sardar Sarovar Dam project. I’m not holding my breath, however. No bombs will fall on Gujarat. Democracies don’t go to war with each other. They sign business contracts. Am I the only one who finds something nauseating about Dubya colonising a desert nation to pry open its lucrative market for water so that his business partners and the BJP can earn their war profits? Blood may or may not be thicker than water, but it certainly is cheaper, especially when it is blood of Iraqis.
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JK says in my comments section If Arundhati utters a word, we should unleash a massive weblog retaliation against her lies Our MOAB Actually, I thought I had a better idea. Since ’tis the season for preemptive attack, I thought I’d start first. The Examined Life moles found an advance copy of the essay that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}