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Praveen Swami is a Contributing Editor to ThePrint, and writes on issues related to national security, intelligence, police and regional geopolitics. An award-winning journalist who has extensive experience of reporting from theatres of conflict in the Middle-East, India and East Asia, he is the author of two books on the Kashmir conflict. Praveen can be reached at praveen.swami@theprint.in
Question to Swami: Do you prefer a state that enforces public order using laws drafted by the founders, or do you prefer giving street mobs a veto over elected parliaments and courts?
You cannot celebrate the constitutional rule of law while simultaneously crying whenever the state prevents violent anarchy. You want all the safety and economic stability of a sovereign nation, but turn into a moralizing preacher the second the state actually does the messy work required to maintain it.
Pick a side and stop dancing on both