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Smoking 'Gun-Runners' Are Skilled In Deception! |
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Smokers can relax, for a change. It has nothing to do
with smoking—has nothing to do with carbon dioxide, nicotine, cancer and
heart attack! The matter intended to be mentioned is entirely different.
It is related to smoking gun.
Smoking guns have nothing to do with the relentless domestic wars that are going between
husbands and wives.
This smoking gun means– incontrovertible
evidence of guilt. Smoking 'gun-runners' are the ones
who are skilled in deception! The men who wear masks! Or those who carryout clandestine,
operations to unmask others!
In the modern era to unmask others, has become a major industry, apart from sensationalism involved in it.
Smoking gun is twice blessed! It 'blesses' the giver of the blessing and
the receiver of the blessing. Both get enormous publicity depending upon
the 'fire-power' capacity of the gun. Many heads roll sometimes, without
a shot being fired.
The phrase smoking gun was coined first by
Republican Congressman Barber Conable of USA during the Watergate
Investigation. On 23rd June, 1972, a tape of smoking gun was released.
The conversation was held between Richard Nixon and his Chief of Staff H
R Haldemen. What happened subsequently is the history!
In a
democratic set up where political activity and freedom of press is
guaranteed under the Constitution, smoking guns have assumed great
importance. We read from newspapers, TV Channels how smoking guns are
used to let the public know how criminals, celebrities and politicians
are the targets of smoking guns or how they themselves use the smoking
guns to destroy others and to vindicate their stand.
Special sleuths and investigators are ever on the look out of
tiniest smoking gun that could lead to war on any subject of national
and international importance.
Apart from
professionally trained persons who are trained to use the smoking guns,
in this modern
scientific era, robots have taken over the operations of
the smoking guns. The super computers are also not lagging behind! Don't
they say, ‘the big brother is watching you?’ The buying of a packet ofx
biscuit by a person might be under watch and surveillance!
Is the smoking gun use, not an unethical practice? The corrupt may dream about
a thousand smoking guns ready to attack him but why an honest individual
worry about it?
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