Dirty Tricks by State

Josy Joseph's ‘The Silent Coup: A History of India’s Deep State’ review: When the security establishment serves the executive G. Sampath https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/the-silent-coup-a-history-of-indias-deep-state-review-when-the-security-establishment-serves-the-executive/article36513879.ece SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

A journalist argues that India’s ‘war on terror’ has made its security institutions more nationalistic and chauvinistc and more corrupt

you don’t need the military to subvert a democracy. It can also be done through the non-military arm of the security establishment. These include the police, intelligence agencies, the Central Bureau of Investigation, the National Investigation Agency, the Anti-Terrorist Squad, and a multitude of other organisations that, although not an integral part of the ‘security establishment’, do share its capacity to inflict pain, such as the Enforcement Directorate, the Income Tax department, and so on.

The Silent Coup, dwells on the degeneration of the security establishment, which, in his telling, has been completely captured by the political executive

“How did our police and intelligence agencies come to display such utter disrespect for the law, citizens and the state?” Joseph argues that the increasing sophistication of militancy and terrorism challenges so overwhelmed our security agencies that they took the easy way out by turning into law-breakers themselves. Emboldened by the certainty that their sins would be forgiven so long as they served the executive rather than the Constitution they had sworn to defend, their depredations ranged from encounter killings and custodial torture to manufacturing fake narratives, framing innocents, planting evidence, and “even creating terrorist organisations”.

How India's Democracy already has been Subverted | SNL with Akash Banerjee & Josy Joseph https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt06qK61u1o Josy Joseph is not making a prediction that our Democracy WILL be subverted; he shows in a cold / calculated way how it has ALREADY being throttled - using the non military security apparatus.

Academics, Lawyers Among 600 To Slam Raids Against Activist Harsh Mander https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/academics-lawyers-among-600-to-slam-raids-against-activist-harsh-mander-2543513
The signatories include historian Rajmohan Gandhi, advocates Prashant Bhushan and Indira Jaising, activist Medha Patkar and economist Jean Dreze. The Statement says: Mr Mander and the Centre for Equity Studies he heads has been "subjected to continued harassment by multiple state agencies" over the past year.

"All these vindictive efforts combined, have showed neither diversion of money nor any violation of the law. The current raids by the ED and IT department are to be viewed in this context, as part of a continuing chain of abuse of state institutions to threaten, intimidate and try to silence every critic of the present government,".

'New India' and the Story of Judas: An Open Letter to Harsh Mander https://thewire.in/rights/harsh-mander-enforcement-directorate-raid-2
This new India doesn’t like people who are associated with the homeless, with the disabled, with the poor, with the diseased and the deprived. Look at all those incarcerated or labelled seditious by the regime – my friends Umar Khalid, Anand Teltumbde, Gautam Navlakha and the likes. They all have a common thread through their souls – they are the voice of the voiceless and dared to stand up for the rights of the underprivileged. They were kissed by the have-nots and hence identified by the regime and its strangulating arms.

Two months’ interim protection from arrest for The Wire journalists; SC asks them to approach HC to quash 3 UP FIRs by The Leaflet https://www.theleaflet.in/two-months-interim-protection-from-arrest-for-the-wire-journalists-sc-asks-them-to-approach-hc-to-quash-3-up-firs/
September 8, 2021

Supreme Court Wednesday granted two months of interim protection from any coercive action against the digital media portal The Wire and three of its journalists in the three separate First Information Reports(FIR) in districts Rampur, Barabanki and Ghaziabad.

The petitioners contended that if the routine duty of journalism becomes easily vulnerable to the criminal process, democratic institutions will suffer.

“By the very lodging of such FIRs, media persons become embroiled in a process of seeking anticipatory bail, dealing with summons to attend police stations far away from their place of work, dealing with the threat of non-bailable warrants etc. – all for writing on, reporting, and commenting on current affairs. The process becomes the punishment”, the plea said.

Full Video of Kanhaiya Kumar's Deposition Before a Supreme Court-Appointed Panel Feb 28, 2016 https://youtu.be/gPSH064lGpg

Multiple top leaders of India’s opposition parties and at least three journalists have received a notification from Apple, https://thewire.in/rights/apple-india-state-sponsored-spyware

The email titled “ALERT: State-sponsored attackers may be targeting your iPhone” goes on to say, “These attackers are likely targeting you individually because of who you are or what you do. If your device is compromised by a state-sponsored attacker, they may be able to remotely access your sensitive data, communications, or even the camera and microphone.”

31/10/2023

"Opposition's Charges Bizarre": Rajeev Chandrasekhar On Apple 'Hacking' Alert https://youtube.com/embed/7Eh7IOsR8ZI?start=58&end==514

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