Save us, from the mob..

By Robert Clements. Dated: 6/20/2019 12:57:06 PM

"Pray, that God saves this patient in my care!" messages my doctor wife to me, when facing a tough case during surgery, and not just me, but my whole family to whom the message has been sent to, pray for that particularly tough procedure.
But there's a new message that doctors around the country are soon going to send to their loved ones, "Save us!"
This is not just about being saved from an illiterate, ignorant mob expecting too much from doctors, it is about mobs in our country slowly and steadily empowered to use whip, words and weapon, moving from isolated incidents to becoming a diabolical and destructive force to be reckoned with!
Mumbai, had the most disciplined traffic in the country. Today, you find motorcyclists riding on pavements knocking down pedestrians, and cars and rickshaws riding on the wrong side of the road, knowing no action will be taken against them.
When a mob is given muscle in one area it uses same muscle everywhere.
A mob is headless.
When the lynching episodes started happening, most of us were complacent, because we somehow felt it was justified, as those allegedly illegally transporting the meat, we felt, should be dealt with this way.
When anti Romeo mobs started beating up couples, we felt they were doing right in being the moral police of the nation.
Not for a moment did we think these mobs were transgressing into areas where only police and courts had jurisdiction. Not for a moment have we thought that we sitting in our ivory towers were fools for not making enough of a noise and asking violence to stop right at the beginning.
And to those who think today, and there are many who think likewise, that, "It's not our problem, let those white coats face the mob and deal with them!" Let me remind them of some very commonly quoted lines:
First, they came for the meat-eaters, and I did not speak out-
Because I was a vegetarian.
Then they came for couples holding hands, and I did not speak out-
Because I was not a 'hand holder'.
Then they came for the 'outsiders', and I did not speak out-
Because I thought I was an Insider.
Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me!
Yes, dear friends, the writing is on the wall, and if you haven't seen it and are still hiding behind the fact that all this is not about me, well, let's face it, when you finally write that message, "Save Us!" There will be no one left to do so..
..other than the mob, who'll smash, thrash and bash you, like they did to that young intern in Kolkata..!
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