25 years of politics of liquor prohibition: Intellectual approach (Part IV)

Implications of the NTLP Act, 1989 if implemented in total: Final solution 

Dr. E. Renphamo Lotha, Research scholar, GSM

Introduction
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t may be recalled that I have written on the politics of the aforesaid Act in my first article recently as the author of the act who was fully conversant on the subject unlike others. I pointed out the fact that it was an impossible law of the world scientifically speaking as a scientific subject. Nagas however being backward in all fronts still today are always carried away by any wind of political propaganda, rumor and false stories without scientific facts. The church leaders- the Pharisees and Sadducees of our day are only driven by power and money like Lucifer and his disciples as rightly pointed out by S.C. Jamir, the long served five times Chief Minister of the State recently. Truthfully speaking, they are supposed to follow the Biblical truth and Gospel truth only even if the heaven and earth fall. But she continues to hide the truth of the Bible and the Gospel like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Unfortunately, she has turned out to have been heretics and apostates instead of prophets of truth.Since the aforesaid Act belongs to the Government with authority, she is the only authority of decide based on justice, equality and fraternity as enshrined in the Constitution. Whereas, the Church is authorised to talk and practice the Bible as the final authority in matter of faith and practices. No matter what the church claim, all scientific data available in the daily newspapers have fully indicated that the aforesaid act has failed to serve the real purpose of the prohibition movement. Since the church and civil societies in the state are continuing to travel in false unscientific imagination, it has been considered necessary to point out the far reaching implications and consequences had the act been implemented in total scientifically as scientific subject.
Definition of Liquor / Alcohol
The Oxford dictionary defines liquor/alcohol as alcoholic drinks, juice from cooked food. According to expert opinion of drugs, almost all items of foods contain certain percentage of alcohol, all drugs contain certain percentage of alcohol, all scientific laboratories use certain percentage of alcohol, all industries use certain percentage of alcohol. Above all, grape wince used in the Lord’s Supper or mass by the church also contain certain percentage of alcohol. The Central armed forces also use alcohol which the State has no control. The animists Naga use rice bear as compulsory food which contain certain percentage of alcohol in one way or the other. Hence, scientifically speaking, everyone whether Christians of non-Christians use alcohol. If so, where the question of total liquor prohibition? The Nagas today have become the Jews who determined to stone the Samaritan prostitute woman without exception.
Far reaching consequences of total liquor prohibition
If there has been total liquor prohibition in Nagaland, there would have been no Lord’s Supper or Mass. There would have been no need of church leaders to perform the Lord’s Supper or Mass. Most of the food items would have been out of stock leading to massive famine and fasting. The Nagas (animists in fact most Nagas drink) would have been starving without rice bear which is their stable food which cannot be prohibited by laws. All drugs would be unavailable. Service of doctors, pharmacists, nurses would been useless and unavailable. All scientific institutions, science colleges would have been closed down. In brief, Nagas overall like would have come to a complete halt like hell has there been a total liquor prohibition in the State. Hence, to continue to talk about liquor prohibition in the State became fully false, irrational, illogical and non-scientific in a scientific age. Total liquor prohibition has been impossible in any part of the world including the backward Nagaland in all fronts.
Exemption clauses/saving grace
To escape from such hell, doomsday and valley of death, the State, the institution ordained by God according to the Bible has used the wisdom of God to do the right thing at the right time. She has provided sufficient exemption clauses or saving grace for all the problems in the aforesaid act even she has been charged not to have played her part by the prohibitionists ever since 25 years down the years. Hence, strictly and scientifically speaking, there been no total liquor prohibition in any part of the world as falsely imagined by the Nagas without scientific reasoning. Mind you, the maxim, “little learning is dangerous” in the context of the Nagaland situation today.
Nagaland – Wettest state in a dry state
Despite the enforcement of the aforesaid act with the subsequent declaration of Nagaland being a dry state, it has been proved beyond any reasonable doubt that Nagaland has been the wettest state in India ever since 1989 as rightly pointed out by Dr. Niphiu Kire, the former Principal Director of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Nagaland. This has become on the eight wonders of the world. Therefore no more dispute that “forbidden fruits are sweeter” as recorded in the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
Conclusion
Friends, let us continue to use the blessing of science and technology, the gift of God to mankind. Let us no more go back to the primitive age where there as “might is right”. Let us no more live in false paradise. Let us come back to the realistic world of science and technology by accepting the scientific fact that alcoholism is a chronic disease who needs holistic treatment collaborated by all sections of the society like any other dangerous and disabling disease without any stringent law.