Well Said Venkata.. Short sited ness for short term power of atleast 5-10 years in power is the greatest weakness of democracy ! No matter how well people are educated, it remains.
Take example of US or France, the US citizens will be sold for cheap oil and not serious about global warming and dire truth is they are voting for bio fuels, which will let people die of hunger by converting corn to petrol.
In france, govt is bending to Industrial socialist policies and keeping the economy protected while unemployment is raising !
As you said, I wonder if Benazeer is different!. A person being killed is always a bad thing, either if its Indira Gandhi who Indirectly fueled LTTE for some interest of minority Tamils in India for vote or Benazeer openly supporting Terroists !