There cannot be two opinions. Treachery, sedition, treason or perfidy cannot be and should not be allowed in any society. The recent trends in Tamil Nadu must have surprised if not rudely shocked patriotic nationalists.

Law does not respect any individual, however mighty he or she could be. That is the rule of law.

The action that the Tamil Nadu Government has taken would have been laudable, had it been early. Pro LTTE pronouncements have been in the air for quite some time now.

Vaiko, a vocal supporter of the LTTE, has been arrested - the second time since he floated the MDMK in 1993 - for making a speech in support of the banned group. So is the MDMK presidium chairman and former Union minister M Kannappan. The Tamil Nadu Congress is partly satisfied while the AIADMK supremo has condemned it, describing the arrest as political vendetta. She also questions the locus standi of the DMK Government for ordering the arrest of Vaiko citing the eulogy penned by Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on the death of "members of the banned organisation," in an apparent reference to S P Tamilselvan, then political advisor of the LTTE, who was killed in a Sri Lankan Air raid last year. She has demanded the dismissal of the DMK government on this score. She wonders why there is no police action against some of the film directors who had made 'inflammatory' remarks at Rameswaram or against those who made pro-LTTE remarks at the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi conference in January this year.

The Chief Minister has said that law has taken its 'due course.'

And, law does not permit discrimination.

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