Of sizzling summer heat and other concerns
Saturday, 8 May 2010
Ameer Hamza
The scorching sun on Monday, May 03, reportedly got the better of BNP, the much enfeebled opposition party that had planned to march from Muktangan to the Election Commission with the following demands : that the recent Bhola-3 bye-election results be scrapped; that fresh voting be held; that the chief election commissioner and his two colleagues resign forthwith. They could'nt make it, or rather, chose not to proceed further than Bangla Motor because the sizzling heat was too much to bear !
The BNP leaders and followers had convened at Muktangan, where the seniormost leader present announced that the programme would re-start on May 09,with rallies marching towards zila election offices in every district. Did they get any assurance from the sun on shining less strongly the next time round ? Or that the ruling Awami League would be less prepared to thwart the opposition's plans?
The law enforcing agencies were posted all along the pre-planned route, armed with shields and batons, water cannons and other conventional deterrents. The rally proceeded from Muktangan towards the target destination, crossing the Press Club, High Court and Moythsa Bhaban; past Shahbagh and up to Bangla Motor, at which point it seemed most key people were too exhausted to continue. They were obliged to call it quits after a perfunctory 'meeting', reiterating BNP claims regarding the 'questionable' role of the Election Commission.
The rally dwindled away. And apart from the horrific traffic jam for long hours, the public was indeed relieved that nothing untoward happened. In a dense crowd, such as seen in our political gatherings, it is so easy for mischief makers to throw a monkey wrench in the works, so to say, and trigger violence and bloodshed. And nobody would know who did it. So God be thanked, this sizzling summer nothing worse happened than heat exhaustion on the opposition's part and smug 'arrogance of majority power' on that of the government!
But, what if some of our friends who have high-tech ambitions, get to test state-of- the- art technologies on Bangladeshi crowds ---- or individuals ? Remember what a former US National Security Adviser, Brzezinski, had written about a quarter century ago ? He predicted as early as the 1970s that within a few decades an elite group with superior scientific know-how might 'not hesitate to achieve its political ends by using the latest modern techniques for influencing public behaviour and keeping society under close surveillance and control.' Indeed, independent investigators, including scientists and alternative media people, believe that experiments on the use of artificial electromagnetic fields have been going on covertly.
Nick Begich and Jeane Manning, two of the most dogged investigators, uncovered US Airforce documents that revealed schemes for manipulating and disturbing mental processes through pulsed radio frequencies over large geographical areas ! These electromagnetic systems could be used 'for crowd control, dealing with terrorist groups, controlling breaches of security, anti-personnel techniques in tactical warfare ….. to produce mild to severe physiological disruption or perceptual distortion or disorientation …… can provide coverage over large areas with a single system ……. one last area where EMR may prove of some value is in enhancing the abilities of individuals for anomalous phenomena.' In short, the mind could be taken over completely ! They can turn whoever they want into suicide bombers, terrorists, murderers, willing agents, docile slaves ……. what have you !
Sounds paranoid ? Better delve into the findings of honest-to-God people like the above to get some idea of what the military-industrial complex in some high-tech savvy countries are up to. Iblis may well be taking over !
The scorching sun on Monday, May 03, reportedly got the better of BNP, the much enfeebled opposition party that had planned to march from Muktangan to the Election Commission with the following demands : that the recent Bhola-3 bye-election results be scrapped; that fresh voting be held; that the chief election commissioner and his two colleagues resign forthwith. They could'nt make it, or rather, chose not to proceed further than Bangla Motor because the sizzling heat was too much to bear !
The BNP leaders and followers had convened at Muktangan, where the seniormost leader present announced that the programme would re-start on May 09,with rallies marching towards zila election offices in every district. Did they get any assurance from the sun on shining less strongly the next time round ? Or that the ruling Awami League would be less prepared to thwart the opposition's plans?
The law enforcing agencies were posted all along the pre-planned route, armed with shields and batons, water cannons and other conventional deterrents. The rally proceeded from Muktangan towards the target destination, crossing the Press Club, High Court and Moythsa Bhaban; past Shahbagh and up to Bangla Motor, at which point it seemed most key people were too exhausted to continue. They were obliged to call it quits after a perfunctory 'meeting', reiterating BNP claims regarding the 'questionable' role of the Election Commission.
The rally dwindled away. And apart from the horrific traffic jam for long hours, the public was indeed relieved that nothing untoward happened. In a dense crowd, such as seen in our political gatherings, it is so easy for mischief makers to throw a monkey wrench in the works, so to say, and trigger violence and bloodshed. And nobody would know who did it. So God be thanked, this sizzling summer nothing worse happened than heat exhaustion on the opposition's part and smug 'arrogance of majority power' on that of the government!
But, what if some of our friends who have high-tech ambitions, get to test state-of- the- art technologies on Bangladeshi crowds ---- or individuals ? Remember what a former US National Security Adviser, Brzezinski, had written about a quarter century ago ? He predicted as early as the 1970s that within a few decades an elite group with superior scientific know-how might 'not hesitate to achieve its political ends by using the latest modern techniques for influencing public behaviour and keeping society under close surveillance and control.' Indeed, independent investigators, including scientists and alternative media people, believe that experiments on the use of artificial electromagnetic fields have been going on covertly.
Nick Begich and Jeane Manning, two of the most dogged investigators, uncovered US Airforce documents that revealed schemes for manipulating and disturbing mental processes through pulsed radio frequencies over large geographical areas ! These electromagnetic systems could be used 'for crowd control, dealing with terrorist groups, controlling breaches of security, anti-personnel techniques in tactical warfare ….. to produce mild to severe physiological disruption or perceptual distortion or disorientation …… can provide coverage over large areas with a single system ……. one last area where EMR may prove of some value is in enhancing the abilities of individuals for anomalous phenomena.' In short, the mind could be taken over completely ! They can turn whoever they want into suicide bombers, terrorists, murderers, willing agents, docile slaves ……. what have you !
Sounds paranoid ? Better delve into the findings of honest-to-God people like the above to get some idea of what the military-industrial complex in some high-tech savvy countries are up to. Iblis may well be taking over !