1002 (Part 1) Calvin Hobbes Comic Cartoons may be for laughing purposes. But their Cartoon about Communism, will have to be clarified by Marxists

I thought I am the first person criticising the above Calvin Hobbes Cartoon. But, I am not. In fact, I am one of the devoted aficionados and fans of the Calvin-Hobbes. For laughing purposes,the above cartoon is Okay. But for reality analysis purposes, we have to take a different view. First, I shall provide a link to the person who has already written a beautiful analysis, about this cartoon. Click here to go to http://bwill112.blogspot.in/2014/10/16-research-of-basics-main1.html. The discussion presented in the linked blog page is very interesting, and it tries to compare the status of freedoms between 'democracy' and the Communism. But, I wish to present a totally different view point, in post No. 1003).

Personal views of ybrao-a-donkey which are not intended to be imposed on others.

Do Communists force people to sleep? Do Communists prevent people from sleeping?

Absolute freedom for a person to do anything he-she-likes, (In Telugu language, spoken by 100 million people across the world, the word used is 'svEchcha', whereas 'svatantram' = freedom, independence is not absolute freedom in its perfectness), IS NOT AVAILABLE ON THIS EARTH IN ANY SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE, not to speak of Democracy and Communism.

Constitutions of different countries guarantee different degrees of personal freedoms, but none of them grant 100% svEchcha in the truest meaning of the word. Indian Constitution also has numerous provisions for protection of freedoms, under various Articles of Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles of State Policy. Most of these Constitutional Articles, in 1950 we might have started on a clean slate, but since then countless Constitutional Amendments by the Governments, Supreme Court Rulings have added many exceptions and limitations to the freedoms envisaged in Indian Constitution. Thus, our personal freedoms in today's world are only delusive, elusive, and illusive.

LOSS OF PERSONAL FREEDOMS IN THE ERSTWHILE COMMUNIST COUNTRIES SUCH AS ERSTWHILE USSR, China, East European Countries, Cuba etc.

I do not know what field level problems which Lenin-Stalin-Trotsky, Mao-Ze-Dong, Castro faced. But, in the name of fighting the bourgeoisie and the kulaks (landlords), and inducting and enforcing egalitarian socities , personal freedoms were given goodbye, causing grief and misery to thousands of familiies. Though it was probably expected at that time that, the loss of personal freedom would be temporary, and that the lost freedoms will be restored once normalcy is brought back, it never happened. Finally, the Communist countries got dissolved, and Capitalism-s + democracies took their place. Dis the lost personal freedoms come back? I have doubts.

What is the % of personal freedoms in our Great Icon of Liberty: United States of America? UK? France? Only citizens of those countries will have to say.

Imagined Personal Freedoms in Democracies- one example

Suppose a person inherits a billion dollar estate from his parents. Suppose he-she gets assured income of some millions of bucks from some fishy money markets. Now, can we say that he-she has a right of personal freedom to spend all his life booze-binge-ing, gambling, or just lazily lying down on a couch, watching or without watching (lazy even to watch a TV), while making sure that his inherited wealth is well-protected and consuming only the 'usufruct' i.e. income part?

On the other hand, I have seen many persons toiling for their two square meals, right from the day, they attain an age of five years as a child. And that drudgery they have been doing 24/7/365. Is that real freedom? Or a delusive freedom?

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983 Some Musings on ways of Police in India, and possibly th world

Like many other countries in the world, India is also a country of miserable and pitiable deaths. LIke most other States of India, Residual Andhra Pradesh is also a State of miserable and pitiable deaths. Of course like the global practices and behaviors, National practices and behaviors, in Andhra Pradesh also, Media in general just reports them and forgets about it, unless in the Media's view the news has sufficient meat, to engage its attention for weeks together. Rulers will not bother, unless some court admonishes them. Besides, politicians of Ruling parties may be hand in glove with the misery-makers. Trigger for this blog: A news item in local English newspapers, about the death of a 13 year old girl, under circumstances where her mother could not spend Rs. 3.5 million for cancer treatment of the girl. The girl's saga: Her mother and her biological father were separated. Her biological father purchased a house in the name of the girl, with a provision that she would get entitled to it only after attaining her majority (18 years). When the girl is 13, the girl was affected by bone cancer. Her mother, to the best of her ability, bore the medical expenses of the girl.

When the expenses became unaffordable, the girl's mother approached her ex-hubby for financial help, who had initially paid some expenses. When the need to spend Rs. 3.5 million to spend arose, the biological father of the girl refused to oblige. Besides, the house is in his occupation, and he had rented the house. With no help forthcoming from the biological father, with the mother helplessly wailing for her predicament, the girl passed away, with the bone cancer.

It is worthwhile to read what the girl's mother sobbing inconsolably spoke to news-persons who met her:-(I am unable to provide a weblink for the TimesofINdia.com news, as I am unable to trace it through googling. I am typing from what is available in the Print Version of Times of India News Paper, Vijayavada Edition, dated 15th May 2017, page 3 TIMES CITY.

"...He (Kumar- ex husband) claimed to care for my child. Where is he? Today, Sivashree is dead, because of his aparthy. ..."

According to her, Kumar who is a rowdy sheeter, tried to grab Sivashree's property, using MLA Bonda Umamaheswara Rao's 'goons'.

"...The property is under Sivashree's name. She would have been eligible to sell the property, only after turning 18 years old. My daughter needed money for her treatment. The hospital gave an estimate of Rs. 35 lakhs. The treatment included bone marrow transplant. Selling the house was vital for us, but we could not do so because, of Kumar. ..."

"...Kumar is inhuman. Till today, the police have not accepted our complaint the way we wanted it. They file it according to their wishes. ..."

She also released a video of her daughter saying "Madham Shetty Shiva Kumar and his two sons are responsible for my death".

Sivashree had earlier sent videos to her father pleading him to give money for her treatment. She allegedly recorded videos of the symptoms and sent it to Kumar. In those videos Sivashree is seen crying in pain, asking Kumar to sell the house for her life. TOI.

yb-donkey's personal views, not intended to be imposed on others

Unwillingness of an estranged biological father to sell a piece of property kept aside for his daughter's future life, to meet medical treatment of the daughter suffering from a fatal disease, prima facie looks like cruelty, attracting provisions of appropriate Sections of Indian Penal Code. Conviction or acquittal will of course depend on the circumstances of the case, and the tenability-veracity of the evidence which may be submitted by the Prosecution, and the sincerity-seriousness of the Investigating Officers.

The words of the girl's mother saying "The Police have not accepted our complaint the way we wanted it. They file it according to their wishes" is worth noting. Preliminary complaints given by people to the Police Stations in INdia, are technical known as FIRST INFORMATION REPORTS. Asa person engaged in English, Hindi, Telugu language translations, I have come across experiences of translating hundreds of FIRs which contain the first statement given by the Complainants. This first statement of report by the Complainant is enclosed to printed FIR forms.

There seems to be a historical ubiquitous custom at Police Stations all over India, whereby the Police Station In-charges do not accept a written complaint, as tendered by the Complainants. When a complainant approaches them with a written complaint, detailing everything, the Police Officials tend to write their own version of the Complaint and ask the Complainants to sign on it, as correct.

This method of Police Station-House Officers / Writers / Head Constables abridging / censoring the written complaint brought by the the Complainants, distorts the original complaint, and deprives the Investigating Officer, some of the essential inputs required for inquiry. Instead, a better method will be to accept the complaint report given by the Complainant in a 'as is where is condition', and after scrutiny further written information can be called for from the complainant, either by the S.H.O., or the Investigating Officer. The present method of re-writing the complaints brought by the Complainants at the Receiption Desk, is leading to wastage of manpower in the Police Station, which would have otherwise been employed more productively.

Even in case of 'illiterate' or 'semi-literate' complainants, wherever they voluntarily come forward to submit their own written / typed complaints, they should not be discouraged. It is possible, that written complaints submitted by Complainants which were prepared by themselves or got prepared by them with the help of others, may contain some flaws. Ordinarily, there should be no compulsion for the Investigating Officer, to take into consideration, every line of the complaint submitted by the applicant. Wherever, there are valid reasons, Investigating Officers can ignore such superfluous contents.

Experience in some Police Stations of Andhra Pradesh may show that the Police Station Staff re-writing the complaints, try to recover some service charge (charges for entering FIR data into Computers, with the help of data entry operators privately employed at Stations) from the Applicants. This practice not only tarnishes the image of police stations, but also places burden on poor Complainants. Instead of reproducing the contents of the complainant's statement in appropriate para of FIRs, a scanned copy of the statement can be uploaded into the Computer System, and can be treated as an attachment to the FIR.

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