Society must arm itself to counter communist terror

Communists pose the greatest threat to freedom and property rights. Communists also oppose the right to own arms which are necessary to defend oneself and one’s property.

They use the term ‘fascist’ to describe non-communists who advocate the use of arms for self-defence. The anti-Maoist group Salwa Judum and the former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori who crushed the Maoist terrorist group Shining Path have been branded as fascists.

The American constitution too has been labeled fascist as it guarantees the right to bear arms and form militias to oppose the kind of tyranny perpetrated by communist regimes. Elbridge Gerry, one of America’s founding fathers, acknowledged that the right “intended to secure the people against the maladministration of the government.”

Such rights make the communists feel insecure as they lack the support of the people and rely on violence to grab power. They operate on Mao’s dictum that power flows from the barrel of a gun. Their efforts have failed only in the face of armed resistance as seen from the actions of various governments.

While Sri Lanka showed tremendous resolve and smashed the LTTE which described itself as a Marxist-Leninist outfit, Nepal meekly capitulated to the Maoists. In India, the Naxalite problem persists because home minister Chidambaram responds to bombings with warnings as though the Naxalites would tremble at the prospect of receiving a strongly worded letter of reprimand.
Chidambaram also reveals remarkable political naiveté when he claims that poverty causes communist terrorism.

This claim is repudiated by the expensive weapons used by the Naxalites. The party programme on the website of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-Liberation too belies Chidambaram’s claim. The programme aims for an “armed revolution” using a “people’s army” and states that “overthrowing the central rule... the victorious revolution will usher in a people’s democratic state.”

Both the home ministry and the Election Commission display their incompetence by recognising the CPI(ML)-L as a political party despite the Naxalite group flouting the Representation of People’s Act.

The Act requires political parties to swear by the unity and integrity of India, but CPI(ML)-L promises a “polity recognising the nationalities’ right to self-determination including secession.”
The constitution of the CPI(M) too uses inflammatory language and states its aim as “the establishment of the state of dictatorship of the proletariat.” It also calls for the recruitment of “militants” and prescribes a “revolutionary outlook” for its leadership.

It is thus clear that the government is not competent to provide security and the people must protect themselves. Many Congress party leaders made this point in 1989 and 1990 when the violence unleashed by the communists in West Bengal reached a crescendo.

While SS Ray described it as “red terror,” the state Congress party chief Ghani Khan Choudhury requested the BJP to join him in ending the “Marxist terror” and asked the people to take up sten-guns, a call that was repeated by Rajesh Pilot in the presence of Pranab Mukherjee.

It was not the first time that a call to arms had been made to combat communism. Before Sardar Patel convinced the RSS to focus on Indian culture, the RSS advocated militancy not only to overthrow foreign rule but also to fight the Communists and other terrorist groups.

Indians must support militant groups like Salwa Judum that fight the communist terrorists. The communist groups receive support from powerful forces including the left-leaning evangelical and former American President Jimmy Carter whose National Security Advisor was the Marxist Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Carter and his Democratic Party actively interfere in global politics and lobby for the Marxist-Leninists in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, East Timor and South Sudan, places where American churches collude with the communists. These communist terrorists can be defeated only by using arms.

A few months back, the Madras High Court ruled that citizens had the right to use arms to defend themselves. This ruling should be welcomed as an armed populace will make India as peaceful as Switzerland which has a high rate of gun ownership. In an armed society, operations like the Mumbai terror attacks will last just a few minutes.

Arms were easily accessible to Indians before the British disarmed the country. Even priests used firearms to protect temples.

The people must once again arm themselves and remember Gandhi’s words on the ban on weapons, “Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.”