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"content": "who live in the middle class and above – to live with certain regulations, but when you go to the rural areas, then such archaic rules end up being abused by security organs to the extent that villagers are terrorized left, right and centre. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I, therefore, want to second this Motion in the belief that it offers us an opportunity not only to accept the consultations that the Senate Majority Leader has reported to have taken place, but it also gives us an opportunity to talk to the manufacturers of alcohol, brewers and the people who drink alcohol, so that we enrich this law as much as possible. Whether or not people like it, you cannot wish away alcohol, however ugly the consequences of alcohol are. Mr. Speaker, Sir, before I go to the specifics of this law, one can only hope that the experiences that people have learnt over time will inform us when we are making this legislation. Experience shows that when the children who come from families where they were given the impression that no alcohol exists in this world reach university and partake their first bottle, they end up becoming terrible alcoholics. So, we have to play it such that even the parent who is listening to this debate today, must realize that responsibility starts with him and not the assistant chief, chief or police officer, who then ends up being forced to regulate the behaviour of some of these people in excess. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to speak to Clause 10 of this Bill. It attempts to criminalize conduct that contravenes the section and also to remove exemption granted to Parliament and the disciplined Forces. This is an area where we really must think. If you have ever visited an AFCO in the disciplined forces, that is a place which is exclusively for adults. The disciplined forces do not allow children at all to come to the mess. So, if you start criminalizing what our disciplined forces do in the mess, we would be missing the point. Those are adults and people who, in fact, the Government has gone out of its way and they sell alcohol at discounted prices. We really have to talk to members of the disciplined forces, so see whether they think that consumption of alcohol in the AFCO messes offends them. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is not a theoretical thing. The Armed Forces are men and women who function under a lot of stress. Therefore, after they have been out there, they are flown back under a lot of stress; when they go to the mess and hear that they cannot be allowed to take alcohol, you can only increase madness in the forces. We have to think about it because it is not a laughing matter. Whoever is advising that we have a law where we can stop members of the military from talking alcohol--- Those are not priests, but our security forces. Mr. Speaker, Sir, hon. ole Kaparo told us, when we joined Parliament for the first time, that we should not bring our children to the National Assembly. In fact, in the tradition of alcohol, the bar in Parliament is marked “Sitting Members Only.” Again, with the kind of stresses that politicians go through, if you stop them from taking a beer after a hard day in politics, you will increase the number of mad people practising politics. We have to think about this thing. It is true that these days we have a lot of born again Christians, who are Members of---"
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