Source : Google photo of evil man
Synopsis: Our world is full of evil people who do harm to
others in order to gain riches and power. Such people start modestly in their
early life but gain notoriety progressively as they become more evil and become
more powerful. They are a scourge that infects the humanity that destroys many
lives and puts pressure on the governments to deal with them effectively.
There was a prosecutor in Sicily who took upon himself
the massive task of bringing the Mafia people to justice and gathered evidences
against them that would hold up in any court of law. He succeeded in putting in
jail more than 300 criminals who had committed serious crimes of murder, rape,
extortion, kidnaping people for ransom, illegal occupation of private and
government properties, reign of terror in rural and urban areas, bribing
politicians and justice people to overlook their crimes and numerous other evil
acts. The brave prosecutor was threatened by the mafia who were hell bent to
kill him so the Italian government gave the brave man 24 hour protection. His
family was also threatened so they too required round the clock protection.
The criminals jeered and cursed him from behind the bars
of their jail and said that he will soon die and they will all go scot free to
resume their criminal life. The press avidly followed the progress of the case
because no one had ever even tried to prosecute so many mafia men at one time
and succeeded so people hoped that this time the courageous prosecutor will
succeed where others had failed. He had the full support of the police and the
judiciary to bring to justice all these criminals so that the country could
eliminate the scourge of mafia once and for all.
But one day the mafia men put a bullet into his head
while killing his body guards so the case stopped in its track and all the
criminals were released, the evidences against them disappeared and the reign
of terror resumed with full vigor.
When the mafia tags a victim, there is no way he or she
can escape. The most audacious method is to send a killer on a motorbike that
stops beside the car of the victim when there is a red light, shoots the person
and rapidly escapes. The dead man slumps on his steering wheel that triggers
the horn alerting the traffic police but the killer is long gone.
In many countries the mafia people operate with complete
impunity because they protect themselves by bribing the police and the
judiciary just like what you have seen in the movie The godfather that highlights how the mafia got started in the
rural villages of Sicily and how it spread to the United States and other
countries.
Not all mafia people are Italians. There are numerous
mafia gangs in many countries involved in drug trafficking, people trafficking,
slavery, prostitution, diamond and gold smuggling, land grabbing, extortion
etc. Most of these criminals are home grown while others may have international
connections. Their main objective is to make money as fast as possible using
any means including murder. They invest their black money in businesses that
act as a front, acquire illegal properties through threats and intimidation and
numerous other ways like setting up shell companies to hide the source of their
illegal money.
Now for the first time a chief minister of the most
populous state in India has taken up the task of eliminating the mafia in Uttar
Pradesh. The mafia had never even dreamed of such a nemesis and are learning
that here is a very determined man who wants to end their rule forever.
The chief minister has warned all criminals to surrender
to the police or leave the state so to persuade them, he sends the bulldozers
to demolish their illegal buildings .So far hundreds of mafia buildings have
been demolished and many prominent criminals are in jail awaiting trials.
Others are shaking in their boots because they know that the bull dozers are
coming for them so it is just a matter of time. The government of India freezes
their bank accounts, destroys their illegal properties, returns the freed land
to its legal owners, prosecutes the criminals and their musclemen and makes
life very hard for them to survive.
For the first time the mafia men are now living in fear
and some of them have surrendered to the police voluntarily to spare their
lives but to eliminate them completely is a gargantuan task that requires
constant vigilance and prompt action. Now many other states that are encouraged
by the progress made in Uttar Pradesh are initiating the same process in their areas
because mafia exists everywhere. There is coal mafia that steals coal from the
mines, sand mafia that steals sand ,wildlife poaching mafia, human trafficking
mafia , the drug mafia ,prostitution mafia and many more. Some of these mafia
people have foreign connections with the terrorists in neighboring countries
who want to destabilize the country.
The politicians of some states protect these criminals
because they receive hefty donations from them to their personal accounts and
to their party coffers so the criminals flourish everywhere. The politicians
also use their own gangs to extort “Protection money “from businessmen and shop
owners just like the mafia. Their goons intimidate the voters to get their boss
reelected but that too is coming to an end because the common people are tired
of rigged elections, fake voters, fear of violence against them, intimidation and
are now demanding the election of an honest candidate.
But this is easier said than done. Who is an honest
politician and what is the guarantee that he or she once elected will not do
the same meaning patronizing the criminals to get rich? It is easy to get
corrupted when there is a temptation and easy to get rich method offered by the
mafia. Those who dare to stop them end up with a bullet to their head because a
very determined killer will always find a gap in the security of any
politicians.
Remember the assassins of John F. Kennedy and his brother
Robert? No one has until now found the real culprits. There was a case recently
in a village near Kanpur, India where a big time criminal lived in a massive
villa with high walls and security cameras. One night the policemen surrounded
his villa late at night to arrest this man but found the main access road
blocked by a bulldozer and all the lights turned off so they proceeded by foot
in the dark. They were in for a tragic surprise when they were met by a hail of
bullets from all sides so more than 8 policemen were killed and many more
injured while the criminals all escaped through the back door.
The main culprit who had ordered the murder of the
policemen escaped to the neighboring state but was caught later and was being
brought to Kanpur but the vehicle overturned somewhere and the criminal tried
to escape. He was then shot dead. Most of his gunmen who had killed the policemen were hunted down and shot.
It was later found that he was informed by a policeman in
his pay that a raid to arrest him was underway so he set up his gunmen on the
roof to ambush the raiding party. This is how the mafia people work. They pay
the police to inform them when a raid is coming to arrest them.
Once I was stopped by a friend to put money in the juke
box of a place to listen to some music. She told me that the mafia places these
juke boxes through intimidation and collects the money every night. They also
operate Laundromat and car wash facilities etc. as front to show that they are
legitimate businessmen but continue their crimes.
In Mexico, Colombia and other countries of the region,
thousands of innocent people have been killed by the drug cartel because they opposed
them and their goons. One cartel leader has been arrested and is serving jail
time in the US but hundreds of them still operate freely putting immense
pressure on the law and order situation in many countries.
There are evil people everywhere. One transport officer
in India collected thousands of Rupees from truck drivers illegally every day
until one day a magistrate passing by saw a long row of trucks at a crossing.
He became curious for this traffic jam and soon learned that a policeman
without tag was extorting money from the drivers. When questioned, he confessed
that he was doing so by the order of the transport officer and has been doing
so for many years. He also spilled the name and the address of the fellow.
When the residence of the transport officer was raided,
the police found millions of Rupees filled sacs everywhere. They also found
lots of documents of ownership of numerous buildings, apartments, malls,
hotels, farm lands and a large number of luxury cars and buses in his compound.
He was promptly arrested and all his properties confiscated by the government. He
is waiting for the court proceedings to complete before sentencing but he is just
one of many such corrupt people.
There is a saying in India that when the police went to a
village to get the scammer, the whole village was emptied meaning that the evil
people are everywhere. While some are being caught and punished, others go
about their evil ways freely.
The crime investigative branch of the Indian Police
routinely raids the premises of businessmen , movie stars and others who are
suspected of hoarding illegal cash, jewelries and precious things to avoid
paying tax and find millions of Rupees , gold and silver hidden in often
ingenious ways. They meaning the raiding teams take great pleasure in trashing
the house of such people who can only watch but do nothing. Many have been sent
to jails. Indian jails are nothing to brag about where the new inmates are
thrown in the company of rapists, murderers, homosexuals and the likes.
So far I have written about the big time criminals who
run the mafia everywhere but there are others who are petty thieves and
fraudsters who specialize in scams of all kind. Their victims are innocent
people like you and me who are vulnerable. The dishonest vendors give you less
by weight for what you buy from them, they sell you adulterated food and over
charge you. Some will not give back proper change.
Once a man gave me less money than what I expected when I
changed dollars into Rupees at an airport bank. I counted and recounted my
money and found it less than the correct amount so finally he was forced to pay
me the correct amount. This is evil. Another con man tried to do the same in
Manila but I refused and walked away but many innocent people are so
victimized.
The problem is how to avoid the evil people? They come in
many shapes and sizes and pretend to be honest when they are not. Who will
protect us from such people? Do we always have to be on guard? Why people
become evil so easily? They adulterate
milk, they sell inferior quality meat and vegetables and they cheat you when
you buy anything from them, they pressure you to buy fake products and they
laugh behind you back because they make a fool out of you. They are also evil
even if not in the same league as the mafia men.
Then there are people who try to borrow money from you
but have no intention of paying it back so they too are evil. How many of us
have been so victimized? I am sure you all have such sad stories to tell. What
I find absolutely horrible is that some of the evil men and women are known to
you and some of them may even be your relatives whom you cannot avoid.
In conclusion I can only say that as long as the humanity
exists, there will always be evil people no matter how hard the police try to
curb them and put them behind bars. If one is put away, a thousand take their
place so the utopia we dream of will always remain a dream and not become a
reality.
We have to teach our children honesty, selfless service, good values and morals and most of all humility so that they grow up as good persons. Only the good people can fight the evil in this world like that chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. I wish there were more such people of courage who put their own lives at risk to serve the people and bring justice to those who were harmed.
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