The citizens in Odisha capital Bhubaneswar were utterly disturbed a few
days back after watching a horrifying and heart breaking crime on a city street
in local TV news channels. The crime was caught on a CCTV camera.
A woman was going in her two
wheeler when two criminals came from the back in a motorbike, snatched the
necklace from her and biked their way speedily. Caught unaware and surprised by
the turn of event, the lady falls from her two wheeler under the impact. She
gets up after a few seconds but had to hold her waist in pain raising an alarm
at the same time. A man walking near the crime scene also raised an alarm but
in vain. The two bike borne criminals managed to flee from the spot in seconds.
Such incidents occur
across the country many a times every single day. Some would call these
incidents as petty crimes. They are not. They leave a psychologically wrecking
lasting impact on the victims’ mind for months, even for years together. The
incidents also endanger human lives. There are millions of cases in different
parts of the country of people getting killed while falling on the road under
the impact of a chain snatching attempt.
What also disturbs many is the subsequent developments after every such
incident. The local police would swung into action and catch the criminals.
They would be sent to jail but only for a few days or months. They would get
bail and come out of prison only to commit the similar crimes again and again
endangering people’s lives and disturbing their peace of mind.
Then what is the solution? The only way the problem can be handled is
the state governments should raise a small force of “equalizers” and deploy
them in different districts and principal cities and urban centres of their
respective states.
Now who is an “equalizer” and what he does? He is an individual who
helps common citizens to have believe in themselves that they are no way
inferior compared to criminals of all kinds and sizes. Rather they are superior
to them(the criminals). Similarly he often teaches the criminals that they are
no way superior than the common citizens. They are, in fact, inferior to them(the
men and women on the streets).
A militarily trained person, he often attacks criminals and sends them
to hospitals. Many a time he also “terminates”(read eliminates) the hard core
criminals where and when necessary. He firmly believes that police, law, courts
etc are there for wrongdoers among the human beings. But for hard core
criminals who are actually devils and demons in the mask of human beings
deserve termination or elimination.
If not fully the role of an equalizer is substantially displayed on
celluloid in two Hollywood movies – “The Equalizer” and “The Equalizer 2”. In
both the movies which were super hits at the box office, the main character was
played by Denzel Washington, one of the favourites actors of millions of
Hollywood movie watchers across the globe.
In this pandemic period when people get plenty of leisure time because
of lockdowns and shutdowns, it is advised to download both the movies from the
internet and watch them. “The Equalizer 2” is a must see.
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