 I won’t beat around the bush, and get straight to the point. S. M. Krishna - India’s Minister for External Affairs - is an ass. He has expressed his country’s “disapproval” of Jay Leno over a quip he made on his show a few nights ago, and has promised to take up the matter with the U.S. government. Vayalar Ravi - India’s Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs - another ass, declares: “This is not acceptable to us”. A third moron from the sub-continent - India’s Ambassador to the U.S., Nirupama Rao - is “taking up the matter with the relevant authorities”. I have viewed the video clip in question. I liked it. I thought it was funny. I have checked it out over and over again, but have yet to find anything offensive in it. Leno is a comedian, and does a stand-up comic routine at the commencement of his show each night. He is a good comedian, and wields his rapier well in pricking egos and pretensions and a variety of foolishnesses that go on all around us all the time. This particular quip was directed against Mitt Romney, and it made the point well. The reference to the Golden Temple, I thought, was complimentary to the Sikhs, not by any stretch of the imagination a negative one. For those who are too stupid to understand the workings of a joke, or need to dissect a joke to understand it, let me explain. A joke is based on an exaggeration. To emphasize a point, one brings in an unrelated but extreme example in order to show how ridiculous the subject of your joke is. Leno’s goal was to show the most lavish property on earth in order to satirize Romney’s claim that he is an ordinary bloke. Leno’s writers and researchers, while looking for the most valuable and beyond-the-reach real estate on earth, zeroed in - not on the Taj Mahal, not on the Palace of Versailles, not on the Vatican, not on Buckingham Palace - but the Golden Temple in Amritsar. I liked that … in addition to the joke itself. So, what are these idiots in India huffing and puffing about? So let me see ... Tens of thousands of Sikhs - innocent men, women and children - get murdered in broad daylight, in the open streets of India’s capital city, with the direct involvement of these very asses, either in the mass murders or in their subsequent cover-up. And not one of this trinity of buffoons said a word. Or lifted a finger. Before, during or after. 28 years have gone by, and these very same asses continue to sit on their hands. Where were they when we needed intelligent intervention in, for example, the turban issue in France? Many think that the Indian politicians merely did nothing. Not true. It was worse. Do any of you really believe that any nation on earth - each hungering for trade with the hundreds of millions of lemmings that populate the subcontinent - would even dare to offend India, if it had genuinely expressed displeasure at the mistreatment of Sikhs in their respective nations? I know, as many of you do too, that these very same asses actually connived at exasperating the challenges we face today. Our problems today exist, not despite them, but because of them. Our successes are not because of them, but despite them. And now, viewing a simple, straightforward, innocent joke on the telly, these twits have suddenly found their voices? You know why? There is an election going on in India, and it is opportune for these scoundrels to drum up a controversy out of thin air, fan the flames, and then claim that they are the defenders of Sikhs. And then milk the uneducated peasants for their votes. The bastards. [Sorry, but this isn’t the time to mince words.] Each of these three asses, and their entire party of goondas will be pretending to do something where nothing needs to be done, but they will do absolutely nothing to accomplish ANYTHING meaningful, even though they hold the very reins of power in the country. Let me give you a short list. A vast majority of the citizens of their country, India, is starving. Literally. Most of them defecate publicly every day. They are uneducated - yes, even more so than the politicians. They worship animals, and bow in reverence to the phallus - those of you who are weak in Latin, that’s the human, male penis! They see piety and health benefits in drinking their own urine, and that of animals. They brutalize women, children, seniors, minorities …. And so on. Nothing, absolutely, nothing, is being done to address any of these stupidities and crimes, because these very three asses, along with their army of cohorts, personally subscribe to these ills. Yet, they have the time and gumption to find fault with a man who has done no wrong … all, while claiming to do so in the name of Sikhs, who, by the way, are the only people in that silly and sad land who simply will not subscribe to those stupidities. And the only people there who do have a sense of humour - a self-deprecating variety, unequalled on earth. I repeat, with all the emphasis I can muster: Jay Leno has said nothing wrong, done nothing wrong, and has no reason to apologize in this matter. But what will we do with the dimwits who usurp our voices and lead those amongst us who are simple and trusting, astray? |