Even if God can, will God Want to?

L & G,
I came across two news articles that made me smile - not because its funny, but its sense of irony did amuse me. Even god cannot save this country: SC and SC directs flak at errant cops, babus both appeared on the same day on MSN. Independence day is around the corner and spirits of Nationalism ( with a Capital N) and PATRIOTISM ( all CAPS) is pretty high and doing the rounds on email, straw flags will soon be around too.

now, the first article - Even god cannot save this country: SC really did crack me up. let me quote -

"You complain about judicial activism when you are in power. When you are not in power you come to us for remedy," the bench remarked.

now, what do you say when a nation comes down to this plight ? with the apex court fuming that even god cannot save this country, i think it has come to the point where we have to enforce a severe law that prevents people with any criminial record, ANY, from holding any position in the government. Now, this would have been a difficult proposition in the early years of post independence, considering that most of our freedom fighters spent a major chunk of their time in prison. Today, most of our politicians NEED to spend a considerable amount of their remaining wretched lifes in prison ! Like someone had said, there is a dearth for good Statemen in India; all we have are politicians. Dont take this personally, am not very politically inclined ( just Nationally) but its about time the Judicial powers were truely isolated from the legislative and not just in theory.

The second article is something that i can relate to - and almost every other denizen can. The sheer feeling of the fact that there is no one to help you when you are in trouble; in the world's largest democracy, the very government you elected is not there to stand by you; the system that you are presented with is so convoluted that fixing it would mean getting rid of it.
Right from a simple stolen cell Phone to some gang rape, the Indian Policeman has an image - of harrassing the people.
Am not gonna vent on corruption and its tentacles, but thats another story.