Motivational poster of the day
To be fair, Mr.Chidambaram’s quote was
There was no intelligence regarding an imminent attack on Mumbai, that is not a failure of intelligence agencies but simply that, in the nature of things, whoever perpetrated this attack has worked in a very very clandestine manner and maybe it is a very small group, maybe they didn't communicate with each other. So, those are possibilities. It's not a failure of intelligence.
And the poster is an oversimplification of his quote, but I do not see how his quote can be interpreted in any other way. Feel free to share, print, whatever. I might even print a Tshirt for myself.
P.S: I wanted to do this like the Obama Hope poster but no Illustrator and too much fight. The caricature itself took me many hours. Maybe next time.
11 comments:
It's brilliant but I wish I could laugh at it. I seem to have lost all tolerance, even the comic one, towards the Government and such dumbass statements it makes. Just like the rest of the city.
Print the T-shirts, hell yes!! And maybe hold a hunger strike in front of Parliament. Not that anything the people do will make a difference to our "leaders" anyway...
Ditto to the T-Shirt idea. Will buy. Brilliant
Great work. Sharing it on FB.
You have made an excellent effort to produce the caricature.
When he says 'whoever perpetrated this attack has worked in a very very clandestine manner', what the Hon'ble Chidambaram meant was the terrorists should have phoned in in advance or at least left a calling card! Sometimes, even the most intelligent politicians make inane statements. It goes with the job and stress!
Well put. Aam admi is reminded of N Rao's quote "Not taking any action itself is an action" @aamadmy
Too much of italian pizzas can subdue anyone's senses.
Lack of understanding Chidu's lucid explanation is definitely failure of intelligence.. :))
@VoxIndica - Do you have any idea how intelligence agencies manage to get warnings about possible terror attacks? They don't have listening devices installed in the homes (or caves) of every potential terrorist. Surely, you must have enough common sense to realize that it is impossible to install such devices in every hideout of every potential terrorist. So the only way intelligence agencies can receive warnings about potential attacks is when the plans of the attacks are discussed over phone or internet lines.
"very very clandestine manner" means that the attackers planned the attack in a closed room without using any form of electronic device.
Planting three bombs in crowded parts of an extremely congested city like Mumbai doesn't require any sophisticated planning involving different groups of terrorists. A couple of guys having capability of manufacturing crude bombs can plan it in a closed room, travel to Mumbai and plant them without talking about their plans on phone or internet lines.
Terrorists are real people..humans with inteliigence, not robots who function mechanically. They have intelligence to understand how and why intelligence agencies intercept their communications and nab them. It is perfectly logical that they would learn from their past mistakes and learn to plan their attacks with zero communication leakage.
It is very easy to make jokes about intelligence failure, but almost impossible to
create a fail-proof intelligence system that can provide warnings in advance about every planned attack. If such a fail-proof system was possible, it would have been installed all over the world and would have been used to prevent murders, rapes and every possible crime.
Good work. Congratulations. Shared.
i want the tee .. good one
@all: Trying to do something re: tshirts
thanks for sharing and tweeting :-)
@voxindica: I have oversimplified this, for sure. And somewhere in our fight against terrorists, we forgot that methods can change. It is a thankless job, only the mistakes get noticed, but the solution is to get communities be more aware, alert. In the 80s, drugs were treated this way - parents kept an eye on what kids did, missing money, change in behaviour, etc. Vigilance in homes have to be stepped up, nothing drastic but just common sense. We are by no means done, and like you point out, terrorists won't leave a calling card, but there are always signs and police may not be around to the first to spot it.
@socratus: Lack of imagination, perhaps.
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