Indian bombing shows the need for land rent

Today's top BBC story is a bombing in India. Compared with the earthquake, this is insignificant. As noted earlier, earthquake deaths are caused by poverty, and economic justice is the solution to poverty. Hence, even in the face of a bombing, our priority should still be land rent.

Who caused the bombing? Fingers are pointed at the Kashmir rebels. If it was them, why did they bomb? Finding answers on western news sites is very difficult - we are told in one sentence that "they want Kashmir to be part of Pakistan" with no further analysis. Plainly we are not supposed to think about their demands. Anyone who bombs another country is plainly evil. (Unless of course it is us.)

Further investigation suggests that the number of deaths in bombing is nothing compared with the deaths within Kashmir itself. This is the only article I could find that tried to explain the Kashmiri point of view. Right or wrong, their point of view is what causes the bombing, assuming that Kashmii militants are the bombers:

My investigation took me to the region in 1993 to carry out extensive field
research on the besieged everyday life of the Kashmiri people, a people seeking
national emancipation from a colonial power. I discovered a similar problem in
Bosnia. The major difference, however, is that Kashmir's tragedy is situated on
the periphery of the world; therefore, the international community has dismissed
it as inconsequential even with the loss of tens of thousands of lives. To
complete my research on Kashmir, I documented the Indian-Pakistan dispute over
the Siachen Glacier located in the Karakoram Mountains of Northern Kashmir.
There are no inhabitants on earth here other than the two rival armies faced-off
on this frozen battlefield. Living with the Pakistani soldiers on this perilous
glacier, I began to understand and chronicle the fervent commitment and costly
sacrifices made on behalf of the Kashmiri people. I also studied the people of
Baltistan who live within a region of Kashmir. Most of the research on Kashmir
fails to report the situation as it is, pivoting on Kashmir's desire to separate
from India, and India's military hold on Kashmir which has led to massive human
rights abuses. The primary purpose in my research was to understand this
conflict from the Kashmiri point of view, to come to terms with the real issues
at stake, and to document state violence against a people guilty only of the
crime of defending their liberty to decide their own destiny. My photographic
record offers a visual chronicle of my visit to Kashmir, and a reminder of the
human cost that has been endured by the Kashmiri people for many years.

- dissertation by Martin Sugarman, University of California at Los Angeles, 2001

It all comes down to a passionate desire for land. India wants Kashmir. Pakistan wants Kashmir. Kashmir wants Kashmir. Whoever owns land owners wealth. But land rent changes the rules - wealth only comes from work (any excess is given in land rent). So the mad desire for land cools down, to be replaced by a sane desire for the tax-free profits of honest work.

Note that even the craziest religious passion relies on economic realities. Bombers get their support from the poor and desperate or from the calculations of sympathetic governments. The ultimate cause is always economic.

Most so-called terrorism comes from a passionate desire for land. Land rent cools that passion and is thus the solution to terrorism.