I was listening to the BBC this morning and they were interviewing people on the streets of Mumbai. One woman was saying a government official – one of the elected MPs (“Ministers of Parliament”) – came by to view the aftermath of the Taj Hotel carnage. She was offended because he came not to mourn the tragedy, but to show a movie director around. “Not even a documentary director”, she said. Other MPs have arrived for photo ops and then been whisked away in moments. I also heard a report saying that Indian intelligence had received warnings about the attacks. Supposedly, the intelligence agency passed this information along to the government. The ministers either A) ignored the warnings or B) haven’t received the info yet as the memo is probably still being passed through the inter-office mail system, being stamped in triplicate by numerous low level functionaries and will arrive in their in-boxes sometime next year. But you can be certain all the MPs will be against the attacks and for tighter security… so long as it will get them elected again.

Just to show that no matter where you are in the world – politicians SUCK ! Just ask Bangkok…

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