I am alarmed at the celebration over Kasab's death sentence. It's the kind of perversion that I can't wrap my head around. Somehow the line between retribution and revenge have become nonexistent. How can one immoral act be the answer to another immoral act? How can two wrongs make a right?

How are we bringing balance of good over evil if we are proclaiming that a person should be hung to death? Where is our good that we take so much pride in when we make flippant statements like "Kasab should be stoned to death or chopped to pieces"?

Would the good in you personally do it? Would you hold the stone or a knife and do it yourself, or is murder a casual thought you entertain in your mind because it is done behind closed doors by someone else pretending to uphold justice?

I am upset beyond belief and objectivity. There is something to learn from Europe for abolishing capital punishment. Somehow they seem to have managed to cross over to the good side of humanity, while we are still stuck in this barbaric parallel world with no respect for life. Clearly ours is a lesser society! And it will remain so as long as we continue to do wrong under this cloak of upholding justice.

We'll only keep quoting Gandhi's teachings of nonviolence for effect and pretend to take pride in his ideals, when in fact we have little respect for them. His statements are all bogus words of idealism to us that have no real bearing in this rational world where violence is more realistic than peace.

So then, let's be honest and get rid of everything Gandhi said. Let us pick all his quotes on nonviolence and destroy them once and for all... here's a start! 

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."

“The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives”

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"

"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."

"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

“Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong”

"You must be the change you want to see in the world" 

(To the supporters of Kasab's death sentence: I hope you are not the change I want to see in this world!