Am a first time blogger. These dastardly attacks over the last 2-3 days compelled me to air my views.

Mumbai has borne the brunt of several terror attacks over the years – serial bomb blasts, train blasts, riots & now this. All of us salute the spirit of Mumbai & our ability to get back up on our feet. I salute this too. However, it makes me think – why does this end as soon as these attacks are over, why don’t we plan to make our city safer & impregnable?

Let me today suggest a 3 year security tax on all Mumbaikars – a security tax that pays to improve our infrastructure – smart cameras across the city to monitor susipicious movements, cameras in public transport, better armed vests for our security team, better intelligence infrastructure, control rooms & I can go on…..

I would say why not? – don’t we pay for our income, wealth, capital gains, sales tax, customs duty so why not levy a tax to ensure safety and security for our familes and children?

Also, this time let us remember what happened and get more and more vigilant and make a resolve to ensure that these acts do not happen on Indian soil again…..

My heart goes out to the kin of all those who died, blessings to our commandoes, & may God heal those who are injured…..Amen

Point 1:
We had people travelling from Navi Mumbai by Cars that were stolen in New Mumbai and they went to Gujrat and planted those Bombs.

Why don’t we have some checks and control points to sort out,who is coming and going. Today in Europe there is no border but the checking is uptodate.

Point 2:
We had Bomb Attacks and SIMI was identified as the main culprit. Instead of going behind SIMI and wiping it out. We sat down and heard many political parties who said dont let SIMI be called a Terrorist group!

Had we chased SIMI and had we wiped it out, the terror attacks in mumbai could have been avoided.

Point 3:
RDX landed in mumbai in 1993, recently a channel showed that they had come by boat unchecked and had been able to land on the sea shore without any questions. Our Government did not take action against the channel or did not even bother to comment on what the channel said. This means we kept quiet, despite evidence that the sea route was weak.
The Navy, The Coast Guard, The Nation slept.
Today, we have woken up to this !

Point 4:
No national identity cards ! still.

Point 5:
We deserve to living securly, but the local level police is so corrupt that they are only looking for money. We accept it. We accept that corruption is a integral part of our life. Here is where the above comment "We deserve it" has meaning and comes to life, like an electricity wire of 1000 volts, we needed to be jolted and we have been. Now what ?
Shall we continue to DOZE?

I think its time that the people in charge…the asshole politicians are taken to task. They are supposed to protect and run the country however they are cowering behind the scenes. Where the terrorists came from is far less important than the fact that they got in.

with regards
vikas batra