Selective Amnesia and it’s after effects
Facts:
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A Federal Defence and Water & Power Minister who is paid through tax payers’ money – use abusive language in the Parliament and refuse to apologize and affirm standing by his words in media talk outside Parliament.
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Speaker National Assembly smiling and enjoying that utterly low class street language – talk about his character, sanity and decorum of the office he holds.
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Supporters of PMLN working on their “basic instinct”: Starts drawing parallel comparisons to speeches/sentences in cursing’s of entire world in; Jalsas, TV Talk Shows, Private Gatherings, Road rage ranting. even expletives used in stage dramas to defend their beloved leader!
What does this mean?
Social fabric of the society has perhaps reached the lowest (still not too sure though) ebb; where the thought process has been programed to justify own wrong with other’s wrong neglecting settings, situation, perspective, circumstances, and place of incident.
Can PML supporter for once lean the basic concept that there is a difference between:
**Apples to Apples vs. Apples to Oranges **comparison
Or maybe it’s a totally alien concept for devout disciples of Takht-e-Lahore!
If ZAB used derogatory words in 1973 in a jalsa in Lahore against Daultana this justifies Federal Minister of Defence and Water & Power’s remarks in the Parliament in 2016 for a woman.
If IK used indecorous speech in dharna in 2014 in Islamabad against Nawaz Sharif this gives blanket approval to Federal Defence Minister to use such words in the Parliament for a woman.
If AZ pejoratively referenced his political opponents in jalsa in Garhi Khuda Buksh in 2014 this also justifies Federal Minister’s ludicrously selected low level street language in the Pakistani Parliament which is held in highest esteem by blue blooded democrat party like PMLN.
At this very point, the memory stops and selective amnesia kicks in for such blind supporters and no mention of following takes place in their argument while defending the beloved Fed Minister;
Photo shopping Benazir’s and Nusrat Bhutto’s pictures and dropping them from Govt., of Punjab’s Helicopters in Jalsas in 1988 and 1990.
They forget to mention that in Minto Park jalsa (Lahore) in 1988 and subsequently in 1990 and 1993, who was the person who was raising the following slogans:
****1. Na Teer Chahiye, Na talwar Chahiye - Sirf Benazir Ki ________________ Chahiye
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Chai Ley Lo, Patti Ley Lo - Benazir Ki ____________ Ley Lo
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Teer kahin Aur _______________ - Benazir ___________ Gaya
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Peechey ____, Agay _____________ - Benazir Benazir
I can share umpteen of such slogans (just 24 are in printed form - official document bearing address of Sunderdas Road-Lahore) that were used by N$ in his speeches in 1988, 1990, 1993, and even in 1996 but the point is if one is- a misogynist and with sprinklings of could be Amir ul Momineen dream then thinking straight would not only be hard but is- Impossible.
They also forget that in 2012 in a Jalsa in Rawalpindi, N$ stated that I will put hand in the throat of AZ and get the $’s out when I will come into power.
And then they also forget that in 1996 in a Jalsa; N$ stated that what are horses doing with Benazir’s in her Surrey palaces and so on and so forth.
The level of blind support is such that entire thought process has stooped to justifying all the acts concerning any Govt., Minister, MNA, PM, even the children of Sharif clan; there could be at least three reasons for such a behaviour:
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Beneficiary (of the corrupt system) in the past
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Beneficiary (of the corrupt system) in the present or
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Hope of being a beneficiary (same system) in the future
No wonder; every sphere of the society is slipping down but Nero (this time in London) will keep playing the flute, while desi version of Marie Antoinette (this time in Lahore) will keep offering cakes to the impoverished.
